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brown coal

(Encyclopedia) brown coal: see lignite.

brown hematite

(Encyclopedia) brown hematite: see limonite.

Almirante Brown

(Encyclopedia) Almirante Brown, Argentina: see Adrogué.

brown thrush

(Encyclopedia) brown thrush: see mimic thrush.

Brown Deer

(Encyclopedia) Brown Deer, village (2020 pop. 12,507), Milwaukee co., SE Wis., on the Milwaukee River; inc. 1955. It is a residential suburb N of…

Brewer's: Willie-Wastle

(the child's game). Willie Wastle was governor of Hume Castle, Haddington. When Cromwell sent a summons to him to surrender, he replied…

Brown, Harold

(Encyclopedia) Brown, Harold, 1927–2019, American nuclear physicist and government official, b. New York City, Ph.D. Columbia, 1949. He joined (1952) the staff of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (…

Brown, Michael Stuart

(Encyclopedia) Brown, Michael Stuart, 1941–, American molecular geneticist, b. New York City, M.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1966. He worked (1968–71) as a researcher at the National Institutes of…

Brown, Benjamin Gratz

(Encyclopedia) Brown, Benjamin Gratz, 1826–85, U.S. Senator (1863–67) and governor of Missouri (1871–73), b. Lexington, Ky. An able lawyer in St. Louis, Brown was a leader in the Free-Soil movement…

Brown, John, American abolitionist

(Encyclopedia) Brown, John, 1800–1859, American abolitionist, b. Torrington, Conn. He spent his boyhood in Ohio. Before he became prominent in the…

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