It was not until we had returned to the city to live, while I was still at Brown and Sharpe's, that I felt the full impact of evangelical Christianity.

Joseph Brown continued in business by himself, quickly rebuilding the establishment which had been lost in the fire and beginning those first steps which were to establish him as a pioneer in raising the standards of accuracy of machine shop practice throughout the world.

Mr. Sharpe's arrival in the business did indeed provide what Mr. Brown had most coveted -- time for `` tinkering '', and the opportunity of carrying out in the back room those developments in precision graduation which most interested him at that time.

During the Brown trial, however, the state's most powerful Democratic newspaper, the Providence Daily Post, stated that Brown was a murderer, a man of blood, and that he and his associates, with the assistance of Republicans and Abolitionists, had plotted not only the liberation of the slaves but also the overthrow of state and federal governments.

The readers of the Providence Daily Post, however, learned that it was generally conceded that `` Old Brown '' had a fair trial.

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

A week later the Daily Journal had discovered the initial plans of some Providence citizens to hold a meeting honoring John Brown on the day of his execution.

To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.

However, former California Governor Jerry Brown was scoring victories and Clinton had yet to win a significant contest outside his native South.

The charter had more than sixty signatories, including the brothers John, Nicholas and Moses of the Brown family, who would later inspire the College's modern name following a gift bestowed by Nicholas Brown, Jr.

Jan Ingenhousz had described the irregular motion of coal dust particles on the surface of alcohol in 1785 — nevertheless the discovery is often credited to the botanist Robert Brown in 1827.

Coolidge's grandmother Sarah Almeda Brewer had two famous first cousins: Arthur Brown, a United States Senator, and Olympia Brown, a women's suffragist.

The fragment of a new novel she had been working on in her last years has been twice completed by recent authors, the more famous version being Emma Brown: A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Brontë by Clare Boylan in 2003.

Brown, who had built an impressive record as coach of a Massillon, Ohio high school team and brought the Buckeyes their first national championship, at the time was serving in the U. S. Navy and coached the football team at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago.

Former Browns QB Otto Graham ( left, with head coach Paul Brown ), who led the Browns to 4 AAFC and 3 NFL Championships, and is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member. While the championship losses sowed bitterness among Cleveland fans who had grown accustomed to winning, the team continued to make progress.

O ' Connell had played well in the previous two seasons – he led the league in passing in 1957 – but lacked the stature and durability Paul Brown wanted in a starter.

After being dismissed as the Browns ' head coach by Art Modell ( who had purchased majority interest in the team in ) in January, Brown had shown interest in establishing another NFL franchise in Ohio and looked at both Cincinnati and Columbus.

In addition, Brown had a knack for locating and recognizing pro football talent in unusual places.

He had already transferred control to his son, Mike Brown, but was reported to still influence the daily operations of the team.

In a separate study to demonstrate how unexpected frustration leads to increased aggression, Kulik & Brown ( 1979 ) selected a group of students as volunteers to make calls for charity donations.

The last such suspension occurred on 25 February 2009 when the Speaker, at the request of prime minister Gordon Brown, suspended the Commons until 12: 30 p. m. as a mark of respect following the unexpected death of Opposition leader David Cameron's son.

After leading a young, dismantled team to an unexpected 42 – 40 record, he finished just behind Hubie Brown of the Memphis Grizzlies in voting for the 2004 NBA Coach of the Year Award.

The tendency toward interchanging artists and repertoire was well established when Rick Astley's breakout album Whenever You Need Somebody got its name and title track from a minor hit the trio had produced a year earlier for O ' Chi Brown.

Brown financed a live recording at a midnight performance gig at the Apollo from an October 24, 1962 gig and opted Syd Nathan to release the album.

Nathan felt because everyone had already brought the singles included that no one would be interested in an album with no new singles and due to the album presumably culled from a live performance, warning Brown that no one bought live albums.

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.

Internal consistency, which addresses the homogeneity of a single test form, may be assessed by correlating performance on two halves of a test, which is termed split-half reliability ; the value of this Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient for two half-tests is adjusted with the Spearman – Brown prediction formula to correspond to the correlation between two full-length tests.

Larry Brown, who was named Super Bowl MVP for his two interceptions, parlayed his performance into a lucrative free agent contract with the Oakland Raiders.

The band gained widespread notoriety when, one minute into a live 1989 TV performance on the BBC's The Late Show, the power failed, prompting Ian Brown to repeatedly roar " Amateurs!

In 2003, a heretofore unknown live performance of the eight-part " Charlie Brown Suite " was released on the album The Charlie Brown Suite & Other Favorites.

The other exceptions include a boy's choir " Christmas Medley " played while the characters drive through Los Angeles, the Molto allegro from Mozart's Jupiter Symphony ( heard as Annie and Alvy drive through the countryside ), Tommy Dorsey's performance of " Sleepy Lagoon ", and the muzak version of the Savoy Brown song " A Hard Way to Go ", playing over a party in the mansion of Paul Simon's character.

In 1979, Brown left the team, helping usher in a brief decline in their team's performance.

Tony Bennett was " discovered " by Bob Hope and did his first public performance with Brown and the Band.

He persuades Brown to use his influence with the Queen and persuade her to return to the performance of her public duties, especially the speech from the throne at the impending opening of Parliament.

A popular part of his live performance often includes a two-handed tapping arrangement of Vince Guaraldi's " Linus and Lucy " ( from the animated television special A Charlie Brown Christmas ).

Brown and Etheridge became engaged in May 2010, when Brown proposed during a performance at the Funk Fest in Jacksonville, Florida.

Artists include Crosby, Stills & Nash, Iron Butterfly, Ruth Brown, Foreigner and Wilson Pickett, but the most talked-about performance is by a reunited Led Zeppelin with Jason Bonham on drums.

The film stars Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh, James Donald as his brother Theo, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane, and Anthony Quinn, who won an Oscar for his performance as Van Gogh's fast friend and rival Paul Gauguin.

Charles Brown ( September 13, 1922 – January 21, 1999 ), born in Texas City, Texas was an American blues singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced blues-club style influenced the development of blues performance during the 1940s and 1950s.

Brown signed with Aladdin Records and his 1945 recording of, " Driftin ' Blues ", with a small combo on that record label went on the U. S. Billboard R & B chart for six months, putting Brown at the forefront of a musical evolution that changed American musical performance.

25-date " Electroset " ( European ) tour ( the third one ) ( featuring Simon Hayward and Sarah Brown ) was scheduled from 18 October to 3 December 2010 but the band played only 9 shows till the rest of the tour was cancelled after the performance on 13 November 2010 in Dublin, Ireland because of Jim's mother Irene who had become ill with a recurrence of cancer.

Day-Lewis threw his personal version of " method acting " into full throttle in 1989 with his performance as Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot which garnered him numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Brown logged over 2, 700 flight hours with 1, 700 in high performance military aircraft.

" Sir Alan Budd, the Treasury's Chief Economic Adviser during the period and later appointed by Gordon Brown to the Monetary Policy Committee, in an economic assessment of Britain's membership of the ERM, has written, " although it was certainly a political disaster, the case can be made that it was an economic triumph and marked the turning point in our macro-economic performance.

Outside the UK, the first major American performance was in 1935 at the Pasadena Playhouse in California, directed by Gilmore Brown, as part of a production of all ten Shakespearean histories ( the two tetralogies, preceded by King John and proceeded by Henry VIII ).