It must have been with some pleasure and relief that on September 12, 1848, Joseph Brown made the momentous entry in his job book, in his characteristically cryptic style, `` Lucian Sharpe came to work for me this day as an apprentice ''.

Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.

* Later in 1919, a British aeroplane piloted by Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight, from Newfoundland to Ireland.

On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for " the appalling way he was treated ".

The many records of native customs and beliefs made by the Spanish chroniclers means that Brown archaeoastronomy is most often associated with studies of astronomy in the Americas.

Caltech opened its doors to female undergraduates during the presidency of Harold Brown in 1970, and they made up 14 % of the entering class.

Among contemporary writers, the satirist Craig Brown has made considerable use of the clerihew in his columns for The Daily Telegraph.

While in prison, he formed a gospel quartet with fellow cell mates Johnny Terry, " Hucklebuck " Davis and a person named " Shag ", and made homemade instruments-a comb and paper, a washtub bass, a drum kit made from lard tubs and for Brown, what he called " a sort of mandolin out of a wooden box.

Brown also made a cameo appearance in the 2002 Jackie Chan film The Tuxedo, in which Chan was required to finish Brown's act after Brown was accidentally knocked out by Chan.

In the Known Space stories, Niven had created a number of technological devices ( GP hull, stasis field, Ringworld material ) which, combined with the " Teela Brown gene ", made it very difficult to construct engaging stories beyond a certain date — the combination of factors made it tricky to produce any kind of creditable threat / problem without complex contrivances.

In May 2004, Kenneth Brown of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution made the accusation that major parts of the Linux kernel had been copied from the MINIX codebase, in a book called Samizdat.

Multihull Designers that have made their mark and are considered the pioneers of multihull design and the ones that have made multihulls so popular today are: James Wharram ( UK ), Derek Kelsall ( UK ), Loch Crowther ( Aust ), Hedly Nicol ( Aust ), Malcolm Tennant ( NZ ), Jim Brown ( USA ), Arthur Piver ( USA ), Chris White ( US ), Ian Farrier ( NZ ), LOMOcean ( NZ ).

Tarantino has defended his use of the word, arguing that black audiences have an appreciation of his blaxploitation-influenced films that eludes some of his critics, and, indeed, that Jackie Brown, another oft-cited example, was primarily made for " black audiences ".

Then on third down, Theismann made a key pass completion to Brown to the 9-yard line.

Midway through the third period, Brown made his first interception and returned it 44 yards to the Pittsburgh 18-yard line to set up running back Emmitt Smith's 1-yard touchdown run.

However, Brandon Mitchell blocked the kick, Troy Brown picked up the ball at the 40 and ran 11 yards before lateraling to Antwan Harris, who took it 49 yards for a touchdown that made the score 21 – 3.

Other Yale alumni who made serious bids for the Presidency during this period include Hillary Rodham Clinton ( 2008 ), Howard Dean ( 2004 ), Gary Hart ( 1984 and 1988 ), Paul Tsongas ( 1992 ), Pat Robertson ( 1988 ) and Jerry Brown ( 1976, 1980, 1992 ).

* Brown bread is made with endosperm and 10 % bran.

On leaving JHU, he accepted a position ( involving the teaching of statistical mechanics to graduate students in chemistry ) at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where it became clear that he was no better at teaching advanced students than freshmen, but he made significant contributions to statistical mechanics and thermodynamics.

Although other abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison did not endorse his tactics, Brown dreamed of fighting to create a new state for freed slaves, and made preparations for military action.

the company became `` J. R. Brown & Sharpe '', and entered into a new and important period of its development.

Also important on the Brown & Sharpe scene, at the turn of the century, was Mr. Richmond Viall, Works Superintendent of the company from 1876 to 1910.

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.

In American law, particularly after Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ), the difference between de facto segregation ( segregation that existed because of the voluntary associations and neighborhoods ) and de jure segregation ( segregation that existed because of local laws that mandated the segregation ), became important distinctions for court-mandated remedial purposes.

Most important, though, were his skills as a beatmaker ; Marl was among the first to mine James Brown records for grooves and also learned how to craft his own drum loops through sampling, which decreased hip-hop's reliance on tinny-sounding drum machines and gave his ' 80s productions a fresh, modern flavor.

The culture of toolroom accuracy and precision, which started with interchangeability pioneers including Gribeauval, Tousard, North, Hall, Whitney, and Colt, and continued through leaders such as Maudslay, Palmer, Whitworth, Brown, Sharpe, Pratt, Whitney, Leland, and others, grew during the Machine Age to become an important part of combining applied science with technology.

Brown was surprised to see Harris exiting his vehicle with a gym bag, commenting that he had been absent from an important class test that morning, but Harris seemed unconcerned, commenting " It doesn't matter anymore.

The park was designated as a " Globally Important Bird Area " by the American Bird Conservancy in 1998 for providing an " important habitat for globally significant numbers of Brown Pelicans, Redheads ( 5 % of the world's population ), Least Terns ( 8 % of the North American population ), Piping Plovers ( 10 % of the world's population ), Reddish Egrets ( 7 % of the biogeographic population ) and Peregrine Falcons ( 7 % of the North American population ).

Both scholarly and popular ideas of hereditarianism played an important role in the attack and backlash that followed the Brown decision.

While a number of major international stars gained early prominence in Australia over the period, an important stable of established and emerging local stars with prodigious film credits remained prominent, including screen veterans Charles Tingwell, Bill Hunter, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown and Chris Haywood.

Other important acts include early rockers Lonnie Lee & the Leemen, Dig Richards & The R ' Jays and Johnny Rebb & The Rebels, surf group The Atlantics, beat groups Ray Brown & The Whispers, The Missing Links and The Throb.

Although initially an enigma as a player, the surprisingly athletic Brown was a jack-of-all-trades, who would hustle, score, rebound and block shots whenever needed ; Brown would become one of the most important role players for the team.

Despite this, Willandra is important habitat for many native species, including the emu, the threatened Plains-wanderer, red and grey kangaroos, echindas and a variety of reptiles, such as Gould's Sand Goanna and the Mulga Brown Snake.

Following Osmium, the lineup of Parliament-Funkadelic began going through many changes and was expanded significantly, with the addition of important members such as keyboardist Bernie Worrell in 1970, singer / guitarist Garry Shider in 1971, and bassist Bootsy Collins ( recruited from the James Brown backing band ) in 1972.

Located near the Missouri and Oklahoma borders, it was an important spa and resort center in the late 1800s and early twentieth century as well as the location for a campus of what is now John Brown University ( JBU ) and facilities for Wycliffe Bible Translators.

James Brown, who wrote an important history of the town, is also credited with writing the rules universally used for the sport.

The strip, which ran from 1983 to 2008, was one of the earliest ongoing representations of lesbians in popular culture and has been called " as important to new generations of lesbians as landmark novels like Rita Mae Brown ’ s Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ) and Lisa Alther ’ s Kinflicks ( 1976 ) were to an earlier one.

While Repton worked for equally important clients, such as the Dukes of Bedford and Portland, he was usually fine-tuning earlier work, often that of Brown himself.

U. S. Representative George E. Brown, Jr. ( D-CA ) was quoted as voicing his support for planetary defense projects in Air & Space Power Chronicles, saying " If some day in the future we discover well in advance that an asteroid that is big enough to cause a mass extinction is going to hit the Earth, and then we alter the course of that asteroid so that it does not hit us, it will be one of the most important accomplishments in all of human history.

In 1924, Gilmor Brown founded the Fairoaks Playbox in Pasadena, California, an important early practitioner of central staging in addition to other stage configurations that it pioneered in its advent of flexible staging.

Gordon Brown was an important figure in Blair's Labour government and played a key role in developing the party's Third Way philosophy.

The anchovy supply is particularly important to the nesting success of the Brown Pelican.

But the most important issue for George Brown was what he termed representation by population, or commonly known as " rep by pop ".