As head of the firm Darling & Swartz, Mr. Darling began by challenging Brown & Sharpe to its keenest competition during the 1850's and early 60's.

In one sense it can be said that one of the most important Brown & Sharpe products over the years has been the men who began work with the company and subsequently came to places of industrial eminence throughout the nation and even abroad.

An additional line of reasoning in support of particle theory ( and by extension atomic theory ) began in 1827 when botanist Robert Brown used a microscope to look at dust grains floating in water and discovered that they moved about erratically — a phenomenon that became known as " Brownian motion ".

It was during this period that Victoria began to depend on her servant John Brown, a local ghillie from Crathie who became one of her closest companions during her long mourning.

Brown began his performing career at the age of 12, forming his first vocal group, the Cremona Trio in 1945, where they won local talent shows at Augusta concert halls such as the Lenox and Harlem theaters.

The group began composing and performing their own songs during this time including a Brown composition called " Goin ' Back to Rome " and a ballad Brown co-wrote with Terry titled " Please, Please, Please ".

By 1960, having been influenced more by jazz music than blues, Brown began incorporating jazz styled arrangements in his music, with Brown naming the Famous Flames hits " I'll Go Crazy " and " Think " as examples of his changing style away from more traditional forms of R & B and rock ' n ' roll.

In 1971, Brown began recording for Polydor Records which also took over distribution of Brown's King Records catalog.

Admirers of Brown's music, including Miles Davis and other jazz musicians, began to cite Brown as a major influence on their own styles.

Although the band members consciously decided to move in this overall direction, creative differences between the band and long-time producer Terry Brown began to emerge.

In 1951, Little Richard Penniman began recording for RCA Records in the jump blues style of late 1940s stars Roy Brown and Billy Wright.

The tradition of using the semantic domain of color names as an object for investigation of linguistic relativity began with Lenneberg and Roberts ' 1953 study of Zuni color terms and color memory, and Brown and Lenneberg's 1954 study of English color terms and color memory.

As Brown and Squire began collaborating more closely on songwriting, they decided that they should take a larger slice of the money than the other band members ; Couzens and Wren left the band in protest, although they soon returned, and Couzens played an ill-fated gig with the band at the end of May before being pushed out of the band by Evans after flying home alone while the rest of the band returned in their van.

Thus, as he began recruiting supporters for an attack on slaveholders, Brown was joined by " General Tubman ", as he called her.

When word of the plan was leaked to the government, Brown put the scheme on hold and began raising funds for its eventual resumption.

Jerry Brown, however, began to pick up steam, aided by using a 1 – 800 number to receive funding from small donors.

Thoreau's speech proved persuasive: first the abolitionist movement began to accept Brown as a martyr, and by the time of the American Civil War entire armies of the North were literally singing Brown's praises.

He began looking for a new band to play with, having " grown tired of Sacramento's coffeehouse circuit ", and quickly attracted trumpet player Vince DiFiore, guitarist Greg Brown, bassist Shon Meckfessel and drummer Frank French.

He proved himself an able craftsman, and in the early 1930s began directing such films as Hell's Heroes, Tom Brown of Culver, and The Good Fairy.

By 1968, the soul music movement had begun to splinter, as artists such as James Brown and Sly & the Family Stone began to incorporate new styles into their music.

Fast forward to the late 1970s and early 1980s, hip-hop turntablists, such as Kool DJ Herc, began using several Funk breaks in a row, using irregular drum patterns from songs such as James Brown Funky Drummer and The Winstons Amen Brother, to form the rhythmic base for hip-hop songs.

The Woodstock Art Colony in Woodstock, New York began as two colonies: first Byrdcliffe, founded in 1902 by Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Hervey White, and Bolton Brown, and then the Maverick Colony, founded by Hervey White after seceding from Byrdcliffe in 1904.

With a new starting lineup of point guard Randy Brown, shooting guard Ron Harper, newcomer Brent Barry at small forward, power forward Toni Kukoc, and center Bill Wennington, the team began the lockout-shortened 1998 – 99 season.

Mike Brown, the team's de facto general manager, was rated as among the worst team owners in American professional sports Compounding matters were off-field problems of several players, notably receiver Chris Henry, who was suspended several times during his short professional career and was actually released by the Bengals at one point, but was then re-signed for the season.

Brown retired a wealthy man due to his real estate investments, but refused to watch new movies, as he feared they might cause him to restart his career.

After leaving the Les Brown & His Band of Renown to try a solo career, she started her long-lasting partnership with Columbia Records, which would remain her only recording label.

In a career that spanned six decades, Brown profoundly influenced the development of many different musical genres.

After stints as a boxer and baseball pitcher in semi-professional baseball ( a career move ended by a leg injury ), Brown turned his energy toward music.

's as well as vocalists such as Edwin Starr, David Ruffin and Dennis Edwards from The Temptations, and Michael Jackson, who, throughout his career, cited Brown as his ultimate idol.

Show and the legendary list of performers ( including a performance by James Brown that many critics have called the best of his career ) marked a high point for Jan and Dean, as they were the hosts and one of the main featured acts as well.

In a speech delivered at Salem, Mass., on January 6, 1860, to raise money for the families of the executed abolitionist John Brown and his followers, Ralph Waldo Emerson calls Brown an example of true chivalry, which consists not in noble birth but in helping the weak and defenseless and declares that " Walter Scott would have delighted to draw his picture and trace his adventurous career ".

Like Dallas Cowboys cornerback Larry Brown, Mike Jones was included on the NFL Network's " Top 10 One-Hit Wonders " list ( Jones was # 10, Brown was # 3 ), although Jones also mirrored Brown in having a solid if unspectacular career outside of his Super Bowl heroics.

" Tori Amos: In the Studio " ( 2011 ) by Jake Brown features an in-depth look at Amos's career, discography and recording process.

During her career, Gilbreth received numerous awards and honors, including 23 honorary degrees from such schools as Princeton University, Brown University, and the University of Michigan.

Fitzgerald and Brown divorced in 1953, bowing to the various career pressures both were experiencing at the time, though they would continue to perform together.

Bridgewater's album Dear Ella ( 1997 ) featured many musicians that were closely associated with Fitzgerald during her career, including the pianist Lou Levy, the trumpeter Benny Powell, and Fitzgerald's second husband, double bassist Ray Brown.

Johnson steered the projects towards contractors that he personally knew, such as the Brown Brothers, Herman and George, who would finance much of Johnson's future career.

His solo career began under the pop-hit oriented guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single " Brown Eyed Girl " in 1967.

Dench's more recent film career has garnered six Academy Award nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997 ; her Oscar-winning turn as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love in 1998 ; for Chocolat in 2000 ; for the lead role of writer Iris Murdoch in Iris in 2001 ( with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman ); for Mrs Henderson Presents ( a romanticised history of the Windmill Theatre ) in 2005 ; and for 2006's Notes on a Scandal, a film for which she received critical acclaim, including Golden Globe, Academy Award, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations.

" Yaz " attended Notre Dame on a basketball scholarship ( his career Long Island high school scoring mark at Bridgehampton broke one previously held by Jim Brown ) briefly before embarking on his baseball career.

The New York Times credits bookstore owner Andreas Brown and his store, the Gotham Book Mart, with launching Gorey's career: " it became the central clearing house for Mr. Gorey, presenting exhibitions of his work in the store's gallery and eventually turning him into an international celebrity.

The Virgil I. Gus Grissom Memorial, located just inside of Spring Mill State Park near Mitchell, contains many mementos of Grissom's career, including the space capsule he commanded, " The Molly Brown ", from Gemini 3, and the space suit worn during his Mercury Liberty Bell 7 mission.

* Johnny Mack Brown ( September 1, 1904 – November 14, 1974 ) Born and raised in Dothan Alabama, was an All-American college football player and film actor originally billed as John Mack Brown at the height of his screen career.