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Aaron Brown Biography

Aaron BrownAge: 53 starting defensive end on the 1970 Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and former Green Bay Packer; was killed when struck from behind by a motorist after walking home…

Paul Brown Stadium

Cincinnati, Ohio Built in 2000 by NBBJ by Carol M. Highsmith The American Institute of Architects and Harris Interactive selected Paul Brown Stadium as one of America's Favorite Structures, based…

Alice Brown: Candlemas

CandlemasAlice Brown O hearken, all ye little weeds That lie beneath the snow, (So low, dear hearts, in poverty so low!) The sun hath risen for royal deeds, A valiant wind the…

Kirk Browning Biography

television directorDied: February 10, 2008 (Manhattan, New York) Best Known as: television director of "Live From Lincoln Center" Kirk Browning started out…

Brown, Joe E.

comedianBirthplace: Holgate, OhioBorn: 1892Died: 1973

Brewer's: Done Brown

He was done brown. Completely bamboozled or made a fool of. This is a variety of the many expressions of a similar meaning connected with cooking, such as “I gave him a roasting,” “I…

Brewer's: Brown as a Berry

(See Similes.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Brown, Jones, and RobinsonBrown A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z…

Brewer's: Brown Bess

means brown barrel. The barrels were browned to keep them from rusting. (Dutch, bus, a gun-barrel; Low German, büsse; Swedish, byssa. Our arquebus, blunderbuss.) In 1808 a process of…

Brewer's: Brown Study

Absence of mind; apparent thought, but real vacuity. The corresponding French expression explains it—sombre réverie. Sombre and brun both mean sad, melancholy, gloomy, dull. Invention…