* 1836 – Bret Harte, American writer ( d. 1902 )

It was from her that Bret Harte took his famous character of Cherokee Sal in The Luck of Roaring Camp.

Although previous big-name pitchers, including Bill Swift, Bret Saberhagen, and Darryl Kile, had struggled in Colorado, following the 2000 season O ' Dowd made two very splashy signings in the free-agent market, signing Denny Neagle to a five-year contract worth $ 51 million, followed five days later by signing Mike Hampton to an eight-year, $ 121 million contract.

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* In Bret Easton Ellis's novel Lunar Park the street on which the character Bret Easton Ellis lives with his own father-son haunting issues is named Helsingør Lane.

In January 2007, Bret Swanson of the Discovery Institute coined the term exaflood for a supposedly impending flood of exabytes that would cause the Internet's congestive collapse.

The new team quickly became a powerhouse, appearing in the playoffs 7 out of 10 seasons from 1976 to 1985, including one World Series championship and another pennant, led by stars such as George Brett, Frank White, Willie Wilson and Bret Saberhagen.

He would bolster the farm system with pitchers Bud Black, Danny Jackson, Mark Gubicza, David Cone, and Bret Saberhagen, as well as hitters such as Kevin Seitzer.

In the 1985 regular season the Royals topped the Western Division for the sixth time in ten years, led by Bret Saberhagen's Cy Young Award-winning performance.

Though by the close of the 1989 season the team boasted a powerhouse bullpen in the AL Cy Young Award winner Bret Saberhagen ( set franchise record with 23 wins in ), two time All-Star Mark Gubicza ( 15 game winner in 1989 ) and 1989 AL Rookie of the Year runner-up Tom Gordon ( won 17 games in 1989 ), the organization felt they were still missing a few pieces that would give the divisional rivals Oakland Athletics a run for their money.

Greinke joined Bret Saberhagen ( in 1985 and 1989 ) and David Cone ( in 1994 ) as the only three players in Royals history to receive the award.

Bret W. Davis writes, for example, " The first philosophical development of the idea of nihilism is generally ascribed to Friedrich Jacobi, who in a famous letter criticized Fichte's idealism as falling into nihilism.

Several documentaries have been produced looking at professional wrestling, most notably, Beyond the Mat directed by Barry W. Blaustein, and Wrestling with Shadows featuring wrestler Bret Hart and directed by Paul Jay.

Despite this, some wrestlers, such as Chris Jericho, Ric Flair, Bret Hart, Kurt Angle, Ken Shamrock, The Undertaker, Dean Malenko, and Chris Benoit, became famous for winning matches via submission.

** Bret Harte, American writer ( b. 1836 )

* September 25 – Bret Morrison, American voice actor ( b. 1912 )

Bret Harte, newspaper reporter in Arcata, fed the news to newspapers in San Francisco.

* August 25 – Bret Harte, American writer ( d. 1902 )

* Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho follows the day-to-day life of Wall Street investment banker and serial killer Patrick Bateman.

Research has found that this technique not only reduces the occurrence of nightmares and insomnia, but also improves other daytime PTSD symptoms. According to Bret Moore and Barry Krakow, the most common variations of Imagery Rehearsal Therapy ( IRT ) " relate to the number of sessions, duration of treatment, and the degree to which exposure therapy is included in the protocol ".

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In 2010, when a film adaptation of Glamorama was mentioned in an interview with Movieline. com, Bret Easton Ellis commented, " I think the days of being able to make that movie are over.

An animation short directed and produced by Ray Messecar and narrated by Bret Ambler. imdb. com

Bret Michaels, lead singer of the rock band Poison was also born here in 1963.

Most of Bret Easton Ellis works, but particularly Less Than Zero ( 1985 ) and Glamorama ( 1998 ), also use of stream of consciousness.

Lawson was a keen reader of Dickens and Marryat and novels such as Robbery under Arms and For the Term of his Natural Life ; an aunt had also given him a volume by Bret Harte.

Bret Michaels also released his 2nd solo album Songs Of Life which featured singles " Bittersweet " and " Raine " which featured a music video and was dedicated to his daughter.

Poison were largely inactive in 2005 which is when Bret Michael's released his third solo album, the country-rock-influenced Freedom Of Sound, which included the single " All I Ever Needed " featuring Jessica Andrews, which also featured a music video and appeared on Billboard's " Hot Country Songs " chart, with its best position being number 45.

It also included the singles " Right Now, Right Here " and " Open Road " which Bret performed live on Nashville Star, a country reality television program which featured Michaels as one of the judges.

Bret Michaels also starred in Rock of Love with Bret Michaels ( season 2 ).

In 2009, Bret Michaels starred in the third installment of Rock of Love called " Rock of Love Bus ", featuring a music video with clips from the series for the new single " Driven ( Rock Mix )" and a Poison box set was also released, consisting of 3 Cd's of music from 1986-2000.

The album also includes the song " Riding Against the Wind ", which features a music video and is the theme song for his new reality Docu-series " Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It ", which officially premiered on VH1 on Oct. 18, 2010.

Bret Michaels will also continue his solo tour to promote his newest upcoming solo album " Get Your Rock On ".

Warner Brothers also dressed Robert Colbert, a Garner look-alike, in Bret Maverick's outfit and called the character Brent, but Brent Maverick did not catch on with viewers and Colbert made only two episodes toward the end of the season, leaving the rest of the series run to Kelly ( alternating with reruns of episodes with Garner ).

He was the eponymous hero in the serial Ivanhoe, a very loose adaptation of the romantic novel by Sir Walter Scott, and he also appeared in the series The Alaskans, as well as playing Beau Maverick, an English-accented cousin of frontier gamblers Bret Maverick ( James Garner ) and Bart Maverick ( Jack Kelly ) in Maverick.

Crazy Town ( also known as CxT ) is a rap rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1995 by Bret Mazur and Seth Binzer.

Bret Hanover easily beat Cardigan Bay in the Revenge Pace, also set up by Yonkers Raceway.

The event featured Owen Hart defeating his elder brother Bret ; a ladder match for the WWF Intercontinental Championship also headlined, in which Razor Ramon defeated Shawn Michaels.

Piper apologized for this incident the next night on Nitro and attempted to make the save for Goldberg when Bret Hart and the nWo beat him down, but the nWo also attacked Piper.

He is also a two-time WCW United States Heavyweight Champion and one-time WCW World Tag Team Champion ( with Bret Hart ).

The show also stars Kevin Corrigan, Bret Harrison and Richard Riehle.

Bateman was also portrayed by Dechen Thurman ( brother of Uma ) in the 2000 documentary This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis.

" Tennessee's Partner " is also one of the greatest short stories of Bret Harte's fiction career.

Hanoi Rocks is mentioned by Bret Michaels in the song " Human Zoo " from his album A Letter from Death Row, which is also the soundtrack to the film of the same name.

Hart also claimed that when Michaels replied that he would never lose to Hart, Bret was shocked and became angry.

Bret Hart's refusal to lose to Michaels in Montreal has been criticized by others such as Ric Flair, who asserted that it was Hart's responsibility to drop the title belt of a company he was leaving ( Flair himself was WCW champion when he left the company and signed with the WWF in 1991, even appearing on TV with the NWA / WCW belt, but also dropped the WWF Title to Hart on Oct. 12, 1992 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at a house show ).