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.

Brewster invited Clyfton to live at his home.

Brewster was referenced as the home town of Ann Marie ( Marlo Thomas ) in the 1960s TV series That Girl.

After this debut ( a loss to future Olympian Johnny Miller ), Louis compiled numerous amateur victories – eventually winning the club championship of his Brewster Street recreation center, the home of many aspiring Golden Gloves fighters.

Drew, a devout Methodist, built churches in Carmel and Brewster, New York, contributed to the founding of Drew Theological Seminary in Madison, New Jersey, which is now part of Drew University, and Drew Seminary for Young Ladies in his home town of Carmel.

At home, Laura is met by Mr. Boast and Mr. Brewster, who interview Laura for a teaching position at a settlement led by Brewster twelve miles ( 19 km ) from town.

As the story begins, Pa is taking Laura 12 miles from home to her first teaching assignment at Brewster settlement.

From 1879 to 1894 the Ingalls family lived in De Smet and the family homestead, a house in town built by Charles Ingalls, the Brewster School where Wilder taught, and the surveyor's home the family lived in between 1879 and 1880 are open to visitors.

* The Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod baseball league has been home to many current and former major league baseball stars, such as Mike Aviles, Sean Casey, Chris Dickerson, Bobby Keilty, Aaron Rowand, Gaby Sanchez, Brian Bannister, Matt Herges, Mike Meyers, Billy Wagner and Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn and his son Tony Gwynn Jr.

The town is also home to Brewster Academy, a private preparatory school.

* 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.

Former player Charlie Christie was appointed manager on 27 January 2006, after a successful spell as caretaker manager following the departure of Brewster, during which time Inverness achieved three wins out of three games played, including a record victory for the club in the SPL as they beat Falkirk 4 – 1 away from home.

In 1997, the Infirmary, having been behind Brewster Hall since its inception, was moved to a new building near the Performing Arts Center, and the old building became the new home of the school's art department.

With his mentor in prison, Brewster had returned home to Scrooby for a time, where he took up his father ’ s former position as postmaster.

Kasar Devi, in hippie circles known as ' Crank's Ridge ', was a bohemian colony home to artists, writers and spiritual seekers such as Earl Brewster, Alfred Sorensen and John Blofeld.

Despite her sweetness, Suzanne will not compromise her comfortable home to choose flight with Brewster.

His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and " just a pinch " of cyanide ; a brother who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home ( which then serve as graves for the aunts ' victims ); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein ( a character based on real-life gangland surgeon Joseph Moran ) to conceal his identity and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff ( a self-referential joke, as the part was originally played by Karloff ).

Set in the fictional English village of St. Mary Mead, home of Miss Jane Marple ( played by Lansbury ), in 1953, a big Hollywood production company arrives to film a costume movie about Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I with two famous movie stars, Marina Rudd ( played by Taylor ) and Lola Brewster ( played by Novak ).

Brewster and his men engage in a running battle with French assassins as they crisscross Europe trying to get their stolen goods home.

Hong Kong's 257 / 8 ( Brian Catton 63, Ray Brewster ) against Papua New Guinea looked good, but 55 from Vai and 50 from Maha was enough to get PNG home by two wickets with two overs in hand.

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

STS-9's six-member crew, the largest of any manned space mission at the time, included John W. Young, commander, on his second shuttle flight ; Brewster H. Shaw, pilot ; Owen Garriott and Robert A. Parker, both mission specialists ; and Byron K. Lichtenberg and Ulf Merbold, payload specialists-the first two non-NASA astronauts to fly on the Space Shuttle.

Brewster holds the worlds record for largest freshwater largemouth bass ever caught.