The. 475 Wildey Magnum gun, later made famous in the 1985 Charles Bronson movie Death Wish 3, was developed by Wildey J. Moore in Brookfield in the early 1970s ( the factory has since moved to Warren, Connecticut ).

Going back to the early 1980s, Brookfield has been radically transformed from a colonial New England town to a major shopping and consumer goods destination.

The Tree Trunk Restaurant ( owned by Bobby Rowan former senator of Georgia ) is its only restaurant, and it has 3 gas stations-the Quick Stop # 2 (# 1 is in Brookfield ) and the Enigma Market which is also a mini grocery store and the Express it, and all three are located on Highway 82.

This tour has become the basis for all of the “ George Washington slept here ” claims — and although Washington watered his horses here, he never slept in Brookfield.

Brookfield Elementary School, serving grades K-6, has its own school committee, part of School Union 61.

Copple Crown Mountain, the highest point in Brookfield, has an elevation of above sea level.

* Brookfield has one school, the Brookfield Central School, and it instructs grades K-12.

Brookfield boasts that it has Vermont's oldest continually operating library dating back to 1791.

Littlehampton currently has 10 seats on the district council, spread across five wards-Beach, Brookfield, Ham, River and Wick with Toddington.

One Major Mitchell's Cockatoo that has become quite famous is " Cookie ," a beloved resident of Illinois ' Brookfield Zoo near Chicago since it opened in 1934.

The World Financial Center also serves as the corporate headquarters for Brookfield Properties, which has its headquarters located in Three World Financial Center.

The Music program of Brookfield High School has various groups such as: Junior / Senior Concert Band, Junior / Senior Jazz Band, the World Voices Choir, the new Percussion Ensemble, and a new Guitar class.

The Brookfield School Council has been successful in receiving the Public Reach Out Grant sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Ontario for " Networking with Parents through Highlight of Pathway to Higher Education and Global Outlook " for the year 2008-09.

Brookfield has $ 23 billion of assets under management in Canada, $ 90 billion invested in the United States, $ 16 billion invested in Australia and Asia, $ 18 billion in South America and $ 5 billion in Europe and the Middle East.

The lawsuit against Brookfield Asset Management is still on-going as of July 2012 and currently has a pending proceeding with the Supreme Court of Canada to decide jurisdiction.

While Arthur Chipping remains a stodgy teacher of Latin, disliked by his students at Brookfield, Katherine Bridges has been transformed into a music hall soubrette who first meets Chips in the dining room of the Savoy Hotel in London on the eve of his summer vacation.

Since 2007, Brookfield Zoo has offered seasonal exhibits available from late April through September / October.

Brookfield has had exceptional success in breeding the sitatunga, a type of antelope ; it also bred the world ’ s first captive-born black rhinoceros ( 1941 ) and gray-headed kingfisher ( 1980 ), the first okapi born in the United States ( 1959 ), and the first wombat born outside Australia ( 1975 ).

Brookfield Properties has signed KPMG and Goodmans as anchor tenants for the first tower, with Fasken Martineau DuMoulin and Heenan Blaikie also taking up residence in the building.

Card tearing is a traditional feat of grip and lower arm strength that has a rich history, and top performances include John Brookfield tearing three decks of cards at once and tearing 50 decks of cards in less than a minute.

Brookfield has explained the technique for tearing cards in both his MILO article on the topic, and in his book The Grip Master's Manual

Today the section from Swinton ( Wath Road Junction ) to Cudworth North Junction has been lifted ; the entire length of well over a mile between Wath Road Junction and the site of Wath North station itself has been eradicated by a large new area of light industry and commerce called Brookfield Park, one of the largest developments of its kind in the country and part of the Dearne Valley Enterprise Zone ( much of this area being the former site of Manvers Main Colliery and several others ), while about three quarters of a mile of the route north of Darfield is now a road ( the A6195 ).

* August 16 – Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, Illinois.

* August 2 – August 4 – The Nipmucks attack Massachusetts troops and besiege Brookfield, Massachusetts.

* September 12 – English colonists abandon Deerfield, Squakeag, and Brookfield due to a coalition of Indian attacks.

* St. Mary Brookfield, Dartmouth Park Road, Tufnell Park, London NW5, 1869 – 75

Many prominent graduates attended the school including President Millard Filmore, William Brookfield, the founder of the Bushwick GlassWorks and William E. Leffingwell ( 1855 – 1927 ), State Assemblyman and founder of the Glen Springs Sanitarium.

* Brookfield – A former hamlet in the western part of Essex settled in 1797 by mostly Morris County, NJ and Dutchess County, NY, farmers and bloomers.

* Brookfield – The hamlet of Brookfield in the east part of the town on Route 80.

* Guideboard – A hamlet west of Brookfield village on Route 80.

* North Brookfield – A hamlet in the northwest part of the town.

* South Brookfield – A hamlet in the southeast corner of the town.

* West Brookfield – A hamlet north of Moscow Hill, near the west town line.

* Brookfield – A hamlet neat the west town line.

* West Lee – A hamlet between Brookfield and Lee Center on Route 53.

* Brookfield – A village in the northwest part of the township near the New York state line.

* 1987 – 1992, Allen Lambert Galleria ( in Brookfield Place ), Toronto, Canada,

These settlers were three men – Seventh Day Baptists – from Berlin and Brookfield, New York: Clark Crandall, Nathan Green, and Edward Green.

Munk was founder, Chairman and CEO of Trizec Properties ( one of the largest U. S. REITs – listed on the NYSE ), where in 2006 Trizec was sold to Brookfield Properties.

* Brookfield – A small estate built by Westmeath County Council in the 1990s, consisting of dormer semi-detached houses.

He taught from 1979-84 at Chesterfield School ( now Brookfield Community School ), then Buxton College from 1984 – 90, and from 1990-2001 he was Head of Sixth Form at Buxton Community School ( the successor to Buxton College ).

* Grade A Supermarkets ( Headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut ) – Operates 9 stores in: Norwalk, Connecticut, Stamford, Connecticut ( four stores ), Brookfield, Connecticut, Southbury, Connecticut, Shelton, Connecticut, Derby, Connecticut, and soon to open in Fairfield, Connecticut.

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