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83 unusual facts about brown


2012 Cedar Rapids Titans season

On November 18, 2011, the Titans hired former NFL player, Kyle Moore-Brown, as the first coach in franchise history.

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown

Radcliffe-Brown was often criticized for failing to consider the effect of historical changes in the societies he studied, in particular changes brought about by colonialism, but he is now considered, together with Bronisław Malinowski, as the father of modern social anthropology.

Allison Liddi-Brown

Liddi-Brown received her B.A. in Drama and her M.F.A. in Directing from the University of California, Irvine, where she studied under Professor Keith Fowler.

She then went on to direct episodes for a number of notable television series namely, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Xena: Warrior Princess, Beverly Hills, 90210, Star Trek: Voyager, Even Stevens, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Chuck, Grey's Anatomy, Friday Night Lights and Gossip Girl among other series.

Archimantis latistyla

The Large Brown Mantis female is called "short winged"—the pair of wings reach only half her abdomen and she is not able to fly—but the long winged male has wings that cover the entire abdomen.

Benita Fitzgerald-Brown

A native of Warrenton, Virginia, she grew up in nearby Dale City where at an early age she began to excel in athletics and academics.

Bertram Wyatt-Brown

He joined the Armed Services and served from 1953 to 1955, becoming a lieutenant junior grade in the Naval Reserve.

Black-chinned Honeyeater

It is a member of the genus Melithreptus with several species, of similar size and (apart from the Brown-headed Honeyeater) black-headed appearance, in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae.

Black-headed Honeyeater

All are members of the genus Melithreptus with several species, of similar size and (apart from the Brown-headed Honeyeater) black-headed appearance, in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae.

Boveri

Walter Boveri (1865-1924), Swiss industrialist, co-founder of the company Brown, Boveri & Cie, brother of Theodor Boveri

Brown Hall

Brown's Hall-Thompson's Opera House, Pioche, Nevada, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Nevada

Brown-backed Solitaire

One singing bird was found in Miller Canyon, in the Huachuca Mountains of Southeastern Arizona, and documented by the youth birding Victor Emanuel Nature Tours' Camp Chiricahua in July 2009.

Brown-banded Puffbird

Other localized, small populations occur notably on four tributary rivers: the central Tapajós River, lower Madeira River, lower Rio Negro, and lower Ucayali River; also on the Amazon River, one region downstream of the Tapajós-Amazon River confluence.

Brown-brown

In What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, by Dave Eggers, the protagonist makes frequent references to brown-brown, the process by which he and other child soldiers were forced to become addicted to it and other drugs, and how it eventually helped them "enjoy," but really cope with the horrendous violence they perpetrated.

Brown-chested Barbet

The Brown-chested Barbet's range in the central Amazon Basin, eastern Amazonas–western Pará states, North Region, Brazil, lies between two river systems in the east and west, with the Amazon River on the north.

Brown-eared Bulbul

The Brown-eared Bulbul (Hypsipetes amaurotis) is a medium-sized bulbul which is found from the Russian Far East (including Sakhalin), northeastern China, the Korean Peninsula, and Japan, south to Taiwan and the Babuyan and Batanes island chains in the north of the Philippines, occasionally being found on Luzon.

Brown-Forman

The Class A shares carry voting privileges and are thinly traded due to control by the Brown family while the Class B shares are Non-voting stock.

Brown-headed Apalis

It is sometimes included within the Grey Apalis (A. cinerea) but is now commonly considered to be a separate species.

Brown-headed Cowbird

Song Sparrow nestlings in parasitized nests alter their vocalizations in frequency and amplitude so that they resemble the cowbird nestling, and these nestlings tend to be fed equally often as nestlings in unparasitized nests.

Brown-headed Honeyeater

The Brown-headed Honeyeater ranges from central-southern Queensland, down through central and eastern New South Wales (though generally west of the Great Dividing Range), across Victoria and into eastern South Australia, where it is found in the Flinders Ranges and around the lower Murray River region.

Molecular markers show the Brown-headed Honeyeater is most closely related to the Black-chinned Honeyeater, with the Strong-billed Honeyeater an earlier offshoot between 6.7 and 3.4 million years ago.

Brown-headed Nuthatch

An endangered population occurs in the pineyards of Grand Bahama; some authorities consider it to represent a separate species, S. insularis.

Brown-Potter

Robert Brown Potter (1829–1887), United States lawyer and a Union Army general in the American Civil War

Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter (1857–1936), one of the first American society women to take to the stage

Brown-Séquard syndrome

French physician, Paul Loye, attempted to confirm Brown-Séquard's observations on the nervous system by experimentation with decapitation of dogs and other animals and recording the extent of each animal's movement after decapitation: Death by Decapitation journal The American Journal of the Medical Sciences in the year 1889, Volume 97, Issue 4, Page 387.

Brown-throated Parakeet

It is found widely in woodland, savanna and scrub in northern South America in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, the ABC islands in the Netherlands Antilles, and northern Brazil (mainly the Rio Negro/Branco region) with a disjunct population in south-western Pará.

Brown-winged Parrotbill

The Brown-winged Parrotbill (Sinosuthora brunnea) is a parrotbill often placed with the Old World babblers (family Timaliidae) or in a distinct family Paradoxornithidae, but it actually seems to belong to the Sylviidae.

Brown-winged Schiffornis

The species was split by the AOU in 2013 from the species complex Thrush-like Schiffornis.

Brown's Corners, York Regional Municipality, Ontario

Brown's Corners is an unincorporated community in Markham, Regional Municipality of York in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada and located near the corner of Woodbine Avenue and Highway 7.

Brown's Creek

Browns Canyon Wash a tributary of the Los Angeles River in California

Brown's Ferry

Battle of Brown's Ferry, an American Civil War battle also known as Brown's Ferry or Battle of Wauhatchie at the Tennessee ferry crossing point

Brown's Ferry, Tennessee, a ferry crossing point over the Tennessee River near Chattanooga, Tennessee

Brown's Ferry, Tennessee

Brown's Ferry, Tennessee is an historical crossing point over the Tennessee River between Lookout Valley and Moccasin Bend in the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Brown's Velvet Dairy

Brown's Velvet Dairy, now Brown's Dairy, is a historic business in the Central City section of New Orleans.

Celia Wade-Brown

After school, she took a gap year in Cape Coast, Ghana, then earned an honours degree in philosophy from the University of Nottingham.

Charles Wreford-Brown

His younger brother, Oswald (who died during the first World War in 1916) and son Anthony would, like him, also play for first-class cricket but none were stand-outs with the willow.

Indeed, in 1906 Wreford-Brown was one of the leading figures in the movement to create the Amateur Football Alliance in London in order to keep the amateur game separate from the Football Association, an organisation that the amateur clubs found to be increasingly driven by the financial gain of the professional clubs.

He took part in the 1933 British Chess Championship, though he had to drop out through illness after two rounds (he had won the first game and drawn the second).

Cilla Battersby-Brown

Cilla revealed that she had placed their names in a competition to win the "South African sunshine family" award and had got to the final, with a chance to win half a million South African rand.

A spokesperson told The Mirror: "Les is like a born-again teenager with Cilla and becomes very defensive of her," a source told the newspaper.

Elaphe helena monticollaris

Its light brown body is often adorned with white and dark brown spots (E.h.helena) or with black and white transverse stripes (E.h.monticollaris).

Eurasian Treecreeper

The plain tail of Eurasian Treecreeper differentiates it from Bar-tailed Treecreeper, which has a distinctive barred tail pattern, and its white throat is an obvious difference from Brown-throated Treecreeper.

Football at the 1920 Summer Olympics

They were unhappy with the performance of the 65 year-old English referee, John Lewis, as well as the English linesmen, Charles Wreford-Brown and A. Knight, who had allowed a contentious second Belgian goal in the 28th minute that Henri Larnoe had converted.

Foreign Policy Centre

They include 'After Multiculturalism' by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, 'The Post-Modern State and the World Order' by Robert Cooper, 'Network Europe' and 'Public Diplomacy' by Mark Leonard, 'Brand China' by Joshua Cooper Ramo, 'Voices from Iran' by Alex Bigham and 'A Global Alliance for Global Values' by Tony Blair.

Francis Yeats-Brown

An immediate hit with readers and critics, the book won the James Tait Black Award that year, and was turned into a successful 1935 film of the same name, starring Gary Cooper.

Frank Forman

Forman was not selected for the match against Wales on 28 March, but was picked for the match against Scotland on 2 April, when he played alongside Charles Wreford-Brown who was making his final appearance for the national team.

Free Villages

Trysee (the name is believed to derive from 'try and see'), an early Free Village in the Brown's Town area.

Gaitskellism

Also in 1956, Bevan was elected Party Treasurer, defeating the Gaitskellite candidate, George Brown.

George Cotterill

Finally, the two clubs met a few weeks later in a cricket match in which Cotterill played alongside several other prominent Corinthians, including Fry, Lindley and Charles Wreford-Brown, with the Barbarians winning by four wickets.

George Herbert Walker

Walker retired to his own G.H. Walker & Co. This left the Harriman brothers, his son-in-law Prescott Bush and Thatcher M. Brown as senior partners of the new firm of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. The firm's London branch continued operating under its historic name Brown, Shipley & Co.

Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

From 12 October 2009 to 11 May 2010 Glenys Kinnock served as Minister of State with responsibility for Africa, the Caribbean, Central America and the UN, filling a post left vacant after the resignation of Lord Malloch-Brown.

H. T. Cadbury-Brown

When war broke out he was already an officer with the Territorial Army, in which he served as a major with the Royal Artillery.

Henry Kirke Bush-Brown

The first equestrian statue ever produced by Bush-Brown was that of General George Meade, the victor at Gettysburg.

Historical and alternative regions of England

Eight economic planning regions were named by the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, George Brown in December 1964.

Hortense Powdermaker

While at the LSE, Powdermaker also worked under and was influenced by other well-known anthropologists such as A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, E. E. Evans-Pritchard and Raymond Firth.

Hume's Treecreeper

The Hume's Tree-creeper, (Certhia manipurensis) was earlier included within the Brown-throated Treecreeper complex and identified as a separate species on the basis of their distinctive calls.

James Graham-Brown

Graham-Brown took to Minor Counties Cricket in 1981, playing for Cornwall until 1984, and for Dorset between 1989 and 1991.

He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Kent, Derbyshire, Cornwall and Dorset between 1974 and 1991.

James Willmott-Brown

Local publican Den Watts (Leslie Grantham) is furious about the competition and is even angrier to discover that his wife, Angie (Anita Dobson), from whom he had recently separated, is manageress of The Dagmar.

When he realises what has happened, he calls his contacts within the Firm, Joanne Francis (Pamela Salem) and Brad Williams (Jonathan Stratt), and demands revenge.

Jemma McKenzie-Brown

She is known for her role as Tiara Gold in the 2008 film High School Musical 3: Senior Year.

In 2008, she took part in a closed audition in London and Los Angeles for the role of Tiara Gold in High School Musical 3: Senior Year.

John Crommelin-Brown

Crommelin-Brown's son-in-law John Eggar, another Repton master, played cricket for Derbyshire after the Second World War.

Joy Kogawa

They developed national support from writers and writing organizations across Canada demonstrating that the house at 1450 West 64th Avenue was regarded by many as having historical value and literary significance, similar to Berton House, Emily Carr House and the Haig-Brown Institute.

Maria Hall-Brown

Maria Hall-Brown starred alongside David Carradine in 1988's Open Fire and 1998's Light Speed.

Myrica

Myrica species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Brown-tail, Emperor Moth, and Winter Moth as well as the bucculatricid leaf-miners Bucculatrix cidarella, Bucculatrix myricae (feeds exclusively on Myrica gale) and Bucculatrix paroptila and the Coleophora case-bearers C. comptoniella, C. pruniella, and C. viminetella.

Nathan Eyres-Brown

That same year he was also then selected in the Gold Coast Dolphins Under 16s side, coached by Scott Sattler.

Eyres-Brown was originally brought in by The Southport School (TSS) in 2005 to play fullback but with injuries to the side was forced to play 5/8.

Paul C. Varga

He serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Brown-Forman.

Peter Rhoades-Brown

Among the players who appeared in the match were Rhoades-Brown's former Oxford team mates Ray Houghton, Joey Beauchamp and ex-England manager Steve McClaren.

Project NExT

Colors are frequently chosen according to the location of MathFest in the year of selection (for example, the peach dots first meeting was in Georgia, and the Brown dots first meeting was at Brown University).

Rheinmetall Air Defence

During the Vietnam War they were widely employed by riverine forces as anti-personnel weapons.

Roderick Haig-Brown

This included lobbying to stop major hydropower projects such as the Moran Dam.

Roger Dickinson-Brown

They are often written in the plain style and were evidently influenced by the epigrammatic tradition of Catullus, Martial (whom he translates) and J. V. Cunningham, including their social satire and sometimes risqué humor.

Shalonda Solomon

While running in the World Championships, she ran far slower than at the National Championships, finishing a distant 4th place in the 200 metres behind Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown, and American teammates Carmelita Jeter and defending champion Alyson Felix.

Shavon John-Brown

At a young age, he returned with his family to their home village of River Sallee, St. Patrick.

Spencer Brown

G. Spencer-Brown (born 1923), polymath best known as the author of Laws of Form

Stanborough School, Welwyn Garden City

Prof Roger Heath-Brown, Professor of Pure Mathematics since 1999 at the University of Oxford

Victor Upton-Brown

He is also credited as having acted in the 1920 film: The Kelly Gang, which starred Godfrey Cass.

Virginia Portia Royall Inness-Brown

She married New York publisher Hugh Alwyn Inness-Brown, Sr., on March 26, 1921, in Lillington, North Carolina.

Walter Langdon-Brown

He was the author of a number of medical textbooks, a lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians, and went on to become Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge University.

Weigela

Weigela species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Brown-tail.

Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI

R.VI serial number R.30/16 was the earliest known supercharged aircraft to fly, with a fifth engine - a Mercedes D.II - installed in the central fuselage, driving a Brown-Boveri four-stage supercharger at some 6,000 rpm.


Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick

In 1887 he constructed and fitted what was to be considered the first successful model of a contact lens: an afocal scleral contact shell made from heavy brown glass, which he tested first on rabbits, then on himself, and lastly on a small group of volunteers.

Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization

Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization is a 54 minute color documentary based on the life and thoughts of Nirad C. Chaudhuri.

Attilio Gatti

He became one of the Europeans to see the fabled Okapi, and the Bongo, a brown Lyre horned antelope with white stripes.

Australasian Figbird

The other orioles in its range, the Brown and Olive-backed Orioles, are superficially similar, but have entirely red bills when adult.

B.J. Phillips

Instead of Brown's photo and byline, those of Phillips ran in at least the edition delivered to suburban Delaware County, PA, while Brown's photo and byline ran properly in at least the edition delivered to suburban Montgomery County, PA.

Barnaby Keeney

They referred to themselves as "Tom Sawyers", many of whom went on to become Brown's most successful graduates.

Battle of Palo Alto

Taylor established camps for those heeding his call for volunteers at Point Isabel, the north end of Brazos Island, and along the Rio Grande between Barita and Fort Brown, at a place known as Camp Belknap.

Bernard Odum

He worked in the James Brown band until the end of the 1960s, and played on such hits as "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" (1965), "I Got You (I Feel Good)" (1965), "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" (1966), and "Cold Sweat" (1967).

Bob's Return

Bob's Return was a dark brown horse with a small white star bred by the Baronrath stud at Straffan in County Kildare.

Cambridge Network

Chairman of Cambridge Network Ltd is Bill Parsons recently EVP of ARM, and current Board Members include founder Hermann Hauser, Prof Lynn Gladden Pro V-C of Cambridge University, David Halstead of Deloitte, Hugh Parnell of NW Brown, Prof Michael Thorne V-C of Anglia Ruskin University, Peter Taylor of TTP Group and Ken Woodberry of Microsoft.

Christie Film Company

As comedy specialists, the Christie Film Company debuted comedy actors Harold Lloyd, Fatty Arbuckle, Anita Garvin and black actor Spencer Williams, later known for his portrayal of Andy Brown in the Amos & Andy" CBS Television series.

Constance Chapman

Born at Weston-super-Mare, her roles include Mrs. Brown in the 1982 Granada Television adaptation of A Kind of Loving and Anne in the Children's science fiction series, The Georgian House (1976).

Dan W. Brown

Dan Brown was born in Solo, Missouri and is a graduate of Houston (Missouri) High School.

Dingy Skipper

This well camouflaged, brown and grey butterfly can be confused with the Grizzled Skipper, the Mother Shipton Moth or the Burnet Companion Moth.

Eagle Records

In the United Kingdom, the label's managing director is Lindsay Brown, former manager of Van Halen, while in the United States the head is Mike Carden, formerly of CMC International Records.

Francis J. Lippitt

After graduating from Brown University, Lippitt, who could speak and read French fluently, was hired by Alexis de Tocqueville to read the American pamphlets that he had collected during his visit to the United States and summarize them in French.

George Houston Brown

Brown was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1851 to March 3, 1853, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1852.

Homer Brown

Homer Brown is a character in the radio sitcom The Aldrich Family.

Howard T. Odum

Odum's students have carried on his work at institutions around the world, most notably Mark Brown at the University of Florida, David Tilley and Patrick Kangas at the University of Maryland, Daniel Campbell at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Enrique Ortega at the UNICAMP in Brazil, and Sergio Ulgiati at the University of Siena.

Irene Bennett Brown

Brown was born in Topeka, Kansas and when she was nine years old, moved with her family from Kansas to the Willamette Valley in Oregon.

John Stasko

John Stasko, John Domingue, Marc H. Brown, Marc and Blaine Price,(editors), Software Visualization: Programming as a Multimedia Experience, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998.

KK-theory

It was influenced by Atiyah's concept of Fredholm modules for the Atiyah–Singer index theorem, and the classification of extensions of C*-algebras by Brown–Douglas–Fillmore (Lawrence G. Brown, Ronald G. Douglas, Peter Arthur Fillmore 1977).

Laurence Dunmore

He left the course before completion to work with Howard Brown working for clients such as Richard Curtis (through Faber & Faber), Goldcrest Films and the Post Office, prior to joining Pentagram Design, when Brown became a partner in 1987.

Lorn Brown

Brown also turned his baritone voice toward work in the commercial voice-over field, narrating commercials for Budweiser beer, Ace Hardware, and the National Football League, among others.

Los Angeles Review of Books

Section editors include Cecil Castellucci (Young Adult Fiction), Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Claudia Rankine (Poetry), Arne De Boever (Philosophy & Theory), Costica Bradatan (Religion & Comparative Studies), Rob Latham (SF), Michele Pridmore-Brown and Ross Andersen (Science), Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Megan Shank (Asia), Ben Schwartz (Comics), Franklin Bruno (Music), and Boris Dralyuk (Noir).

Love Like a Fountain

The single version of the song was included in Brown's compilation album, The Greatest.

Miniature Lop

Agouti, Black, Blue, Brown, Butterfly, Chinchilla, Fawn, Fox, Opal, Orange, Sable Marten, Sealpoint, Siamese Sable, Siamese Smoke, Sooty Fawn, Steel, White

Mountain Stage

Over the years, the show has featured such international luminaries as Phish, Barenaked Ladies, Galactic, Bruce Hornsby, the Derek Trucks Band, Chris Thile, Bell X-1, Judy Collins, They Might Be Giants, Norah Jones, Hubert Sumlin & Pinetop Perkins, Charles Brown, Martina McBride, Little Big Town, Amos Lee, Joan Baez, Jakob Dylan and Regina Spektor, as well as Kathy Mattea, Tim O'Brien and over a hundred West Virginia artists.

Neo-minimalism

Contemporary artists who have been linked to the term, or who have been included in shows employing it, include Jerry Brown, David Burdeny, Catharine Burgess, Marjan Eggermont, Paul Kuhn, Eve Leader, Tanya Rusnak, Daniel Ong, Laurel Smith, Christopher Willard, and Tim Zuck.

Nuytsia floribunda

The description was published by George Don using Brown's name Nuytsia, an epithet that commemorates the seventeenth-century Dutch explorer and colonial official Pieter Nuyts.

Oh Baby Don't You Weep

In response, Brown formed a production company, Fair Deal Record Corporation, and accepted an offer from Mercury Records to release new recordings on their Smash subsidiary.

Old Danish Pointer

The origin of the breed can be traced back to about the year 1710 when a man named Morten Bak, living in Glenstrup near the towns of Randers and Hobro, crossed gypsy dogs through 8 generations with local farmdogs and in this way established a pure breed of piebald white and brown dogs called Bakhounds or Old Danish Pointers.

Pat Crawford Brown

Brown was born in New York, the daughter of Charlotte née Huber and Thomas J. Brown, and is the aunt of folk singer Christine Lavin.

Regina B. Schofield

Regina B. Schofield (born Regina Ann Brown on January 14, 1962) is a former United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs.

Roger Kleier

He has performed and/or recorded with Annie Gosfield, Marc Ribot's Shrek, Elliott Sharp, Fred Frith, Joan Jeanrenaud, Ikue Mori, Carl Stone, Laurie Anderson, Phill Niblock, Alan Licht, David Moss, Hahn Rowe, Chris Cutler, David Krakauer, Chris Brown, Zeitgeist, Relâche, Agon Orchestra, William Winant, Zeena Parkins, Stan Ridgway, Trevor Dunn, Ches Smith, and others.

Rosary and scapular

St. John Bosco's Brown Scapular was later exhumed in very good condition and is kept as a relic at the Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians, Turin.

Rose Mead

She left there to study at the Westminster School of Art, London in 1892, under the tutorship of Frederick Brown just prior to his appointment as Professor at the Slade School of Fine Art.

Sawyer Brown

Sawyer Brown wrote "The Nebraska Song" in honor of Brook Berringer, a Nebraska Cornhuskers quarterback who died in a plane crash on April 18, 1996.

Slevini

Emoia slevini, Brown & Falanruw, 1972, the Slevin's emoia, Slevin's skink, Marianas emoia, a reptile species in the genus Emoia

Southern Tchagra

This species is similar to the Black-crowned Tchagra, but that species is larger, and the adult, as its name implies, has a black rather than brown crown.

The Brown Album

Orbital 2 (known colloquially as The Brown Album), by English techno duo Orbital

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Alabama

Before August 24, 1842, branches in Tuscaloosa (the Cybry Branch) and Perry (Bogue-Chitto Branch) counties were organized by Elder Brown.

Tom Lubensky

He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Paris in Orsay (1969–70) and a postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University (1970–71).

Tony Ross

He has also illustrated the Amber Brown series by Paula Danziger, the Dr. Xargle series by Jeanne Willis, and the Harry The Poisonous Centipede series by Lynne Reid Banks.

VBirds

VBirds were a British virtual/cartoon girl band created by a team of designers, producers and musicians (one of whom was the drummer of the band UB40, James Brown) led by Richard Kilgarriff, The General Manager of Cartoon Network UK in 2002 and aired as 6×1 minute episodes between long form programming.

Wet the Bed

The song has been performed live at the album's listening party, as well as on Brown's F.A.M.E. Tour.