Their accuracy has been called into question, however ( e. g., by Chauncey Brewster Tinker in The Translations of Beowulf, a comprehensive survey of 19th-century translations and editions of Beowulf ), and the extent to which the manuscript was actually more readable in Thorkelin's time is unclear.

President King, the leader of Walden College, was originally intended as a parody of Kingman Brewster, President of Yale, but all that remains of that is a certain physical resemblance.

* Margaret Maria Gordon ( 1823 – 1907 ) wrote a book on Brewster, which is considered the most comprehensive description of his life.

Harwich is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fourth Barnstable district, which includes ( with the exception of Brewster ) all the towns east and north of Harwich on the Cape.

Coined in 1817 by Scottish inventor Sir David Brewster, " kaleidoscope " is derived from the Ancient Greek καλός ( kalos ), " beautiful, beauty ", εἶδος ( eidos ), " that which is seen: form, shape " and σκοπέω ( skopeō ), " to look to, to examine ", hence " observer of beautiful forms.

The largest manufacturer of Swiss cheese in the US is Brewster Dairy, located in Brewster, Ohio.

In the play Arsenic and Old Lace, and the 1944 film of the same name, the character Teddy Brewster is convinced he's Roosevelt.

Wellfleet is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fourth Barnstable district, which includes ( with the exception of Brewster ) all the towns east and north of Harwich on the Cape.

Brewster is known to have been fined £ 20 ( about £ today ) in absentia for his non-compliance with the church.

This special angle of incidence is named after the Scottish physicist Sir David Brewster ( 1781 – 1868 ).

Scottish physicist Sir David Brewster is credited with convincing the United Kingdom to adopt these lenses in their lighthouses.

Presidio County is triangular in shape and is bounded on the east by Brewster County, on the north by Jeff Davis County, and on the south and west for by the Rio Grande and Mexico.

The county is bounded on the east by Brewster County, on the north by Jeff Davis County, and on the south and west for by the Rio Grande and Mexico along which it faces on its south side the Manuel Benavides and Ojinaga Districts of the state of Chihuaha, Mexico and on its southwestern side the municipality of Guadalupe of the State of Chihuahua, Mexico.

Brewster County is a county located in western part of the US state of Texas, along the border with Mexico.

Brewster County is named for Colonel Henry Percy Brewster, a Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas.

Its county seat is Brewster.

Punky Brewster is an American sitcom about a girl named Punky Brewster ( Soleil Moon Frye ) being raised by her foster parent ( George Gaynes ).

Penelope " Punky " Brewster ( Soleil Moon Frye ) is a warm, funny and bright child.

The theme song for Punky Brewster is " Every Time I Turn Around ", written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo and sung by Portnoy.

Her name is on the cast list among the other stars, usually tagged " Brewster magazine beauty contest winner " and sometimes even with a picture.

Orleans is bordered by Eastham to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Pleasant Bay and the town of Chatham to the south, Harwich to the southwest, Brewster to the west, and Cape Cod Bay to the northwest.

Brewster pressed its adoption on those in authority at least as early as 1820, two years before Fresnel suggested it, and it was finally introduced into lighthouses mainly through Brewster's persistent efforts.

" In addition to the various works of Brewster already mentioned, the following may be added: Notes and Introduction to Carlyle's translation of Legendre's Elements of Geometry ( 1824 ); Treatise on Optics ( 1831 ); Letters on Natural Magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott ( 1832 ); The Martyrs of Science, or the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler ( 1841 ); More Worlds than One ( 1854 ).

Brewster married second time in Nice, on 26 ( or 27 ) March 1857, to Jane Kirk Purnell ( b. 1827 ), the second daughter of Thomas Purnell of Scarborough.

Joey dates Kathy ( Paget Brewster ) a girl that Chandler has a crush on.

Cape Cod's largest inland body of water, Long Pond, lies on the Brewster border as well as several other smaller bodies of water.

Sir David Brewster began work leading towards invention of the kaleidoscope in 1815 when he was conducting experiments on light polarization but it was not patented until two years later.

Realising that the company could not meet this level of demand, Brewster requested permission from Carpenter on 17 May 1818 for the device to be made by other manufacturers, to which he agreed.

During a speech by O ' Leary, in which she claimed that drag queens made fun of women for entertainment value and profit, Sylvia Rivera and Lee Brewster jumped on the stage and shouted " You go to bars because of what drag queens did for you, and these bitches tell us to quit being ourselves!

Yale President Richard Levin attributes the run to Yale ’ s focus on creating " a laboratory for future leaders ," an institutional priority that began during the tenure of Yale Presidents Alfred Whitney Griswold and Kingman Brewster.

In 1984, he tried out for the part of Henry on the show Punky Brewster.

The earliest reference to the term " Pinhole " has been traced back to almost a century before Brewster to James Ferguson's Lectures on select Subjects.

During the American Civil War, Brewster served on the staffs of the two highest ranking Texans in the Confederate Army, General Albert S. Johnston and General John B.

Spanish explorers Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1535 and Antonio de Espejo in 1583 crossed Brewster County on their way to La Junta de los Ríos, the juncture of the Rio Grande and the Rio Conchos.

Brewster to the north, Orleans and Chatham to the east, Nantucket Sound to the south.

U. S. Highway 90 crosses the county in the north ; U. S. Highway 385 enters Brewster County from the northeast and proceeds south to the county's main attraction, Big Bend National Park, part of the Big Bend.

In 1871, the song Home on the Range was written by Dr. Brewster Higley in a cabin 8 miles north of Athol.

In 1871, the song Home on the Range was written by Dr. Brewster Higley in a cabin 8 miles north of Athol.

Eastham is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fourth Barnstable district, which includes ( with the exception of Brewster ) all the towns east and north of Harwich on the Cape.

Truro is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fourth Barnstable district, which includes ( with the exception of Brewster ) all the towns east and north of Harwich on the Cape.

The new depot that was built in Southeast, just a quarter mile north of the village, was first named " Brewster North Station ".

* Brewster Hill – A hamlet north of Brewster village.

* Dykemans – A hamlet on Route 312, north of Brewster Hill.

U. S. Route 6 passes through Brewster from south to north, as a two-lane expressway with no exits in the town, although exits 9 – 12 provide access to Brewster via other roads.

Chatham is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fourth Barnstable district, which includes ( with the exception of Brewster ) all the towns east and north of Harwich on the Cape.

Orleans is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fourth Barnstable district, which includes ( with the exception of Brewster ) all the towns east and north of Harwich on the Cape.

* Jonathan Brewster Bingham ( 1914 – 1986 ), member of the House of Representatives for Riverdale and other sections of the Bronx from 1965 to 1983, for whom a segment of Independence Avenue north of 5000 Independence Avenue, his home with June Rossbach Bingham ( later June Bingham Birge ,) has been named.

Frances Jane " Fanny " Crosby was born on March 24, 1820, in the village of Brewster, about north of New York City.

The ranch extended from Agua Fria Mountain on the north to the Rio Grande on the south, and from Terlingua Creek on the west to the Chisos Mountains on the east ; it thus covered most of what is now southwestern Brewster County, Texas.

Green Island, also known as North Brewster Island, is a rocky outer island in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, to the north of Calf Island and Hypocrite Channel.

Brewster Academy ( also called BA ) is a co-educational independent boarding school located on in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire USA, two hours north of Boston.