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Brown Shoe Company
Brown Shoe Company, known since 2015 as Caleres, is an American footwear company founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1878, operating Famous Footwear stores and brands like Naturalizer.
Brown Skin Girl
"Brown Skin Girl" is a 2019 song by Beyoncé, SAINt JHN, Wizkid, and Blue Ivy Carter from The Lion King: The Gift celebrating brown and dark skin; it inspired the #BrownSkinGirlChallenge and won the 2021 Grammy for Best Music Video.
Brown sugar
Brown sugar: sucrose sweetener made by coating or crystallizing white sugar with molasses, giving brown color and caramel flavor; nutritionally nearly identical to white sugar and not healthier.
Brown Sugar (2002 film)
Brown Sugar is a 2002 American romantic comedy directed by Rick Famuyiwa, starring Sanaa Lathan and Taye Diggs as two childhood friends whose love of hip-hop turns to romance.
Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)
Brown Sugar, Rolling Stones rock song written by Mick Jagger, recorded December 1969 at Muscle Shoals, opened Sticky Fingers, hit US Billboard number 1 in 1971, UK number 2, dropped from live setlists in 2021 over slavery and drug lyrics.
Brown thrasher
Brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum), a large Mimidae songbird of eastern North America, foxy brown with streaked underparts and yellow eyes; sings over 1,100 song types, nests in thickets, population about 6.2 million and declining.
Brown tree snake
Brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis), a nocturnal, mildly venomous colubrid native to Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Solomon Islands; accidentally introduced to Guam after WWII, it extirpated 13 of 22 native breeding birds and causes power outages and costly cargo interdiction.
Brown trout
Brown trout (Salmo trutta) is a European salmonid fish with sea-migrating (sea trout) and freshwater forms, 140 cm max length, IUCN Least Concern, and one of the world's worst invasive alien species where introduced.
Brown University
Brown University (founded 1764 as Rhode Island College) is an Ivy League private research university in Providence, Rhode Island, known for its 1969 Open Curriculum, no distribution requirements, and the Warren Alpert Medical School.
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous Warren ruling that racial segregation in public schools violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson's separate-but-equal doctrine.
Brown wax cylinder
A brown wax cylinder is a soft, wax-like sound recording made by cutting a groove in real time into a metallic-soap blank, used commercially from about 1889 to 1902.
Brown-brown
Brown-brown is a drug mixture of the Sierra Leone civil war, reported as heroin, cocaine with gunpowder, or heroin plus cocaine, given to fighters including child soldiers before battle.
Brown-headed cowbird
Brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater), a North American blackbird and obligate brood parasite laying eggs in over 220 host species' nests; formerly followed bison, now follows cattle; IUCN Least Concern, BBS index down 11% since 1968; managed for endangered songbirds and rice-crop damage.
Brown-Séquard syndrome
Brown-Sequard syndrome (BSS), also called Brown-Sequard-plus syndrome, is a rare hemisection spinal cord injury causing ipsilateral paralysis and proprioception loss with contralateral pain/temperature loss; mostly penetrating trauma, best prognosis among SCI syndromes.
Brown-water navy
A brown-water navy, associated with riverine warfare, is a naval force operating in rivers, estuaries, and harbors rather than the open ocean, using small, shallow-draft gunboats and patrol ships.
Brown-Zak fermions
Brown-Zak fermions are quasiparticles that emerge in moiré superlattices like graphene on hexagonal boron nitride when the flux per unit cell is a rational fraction of the flux quantum, letting quasiparticles travel in straight lines.
Brown–Forman
Brown–Forman is an American spirits company founded in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1870 by George Garvin Brown and best known as the owner of Jack Daniel's, Woodford Reserve, and Old Forester.
Brown–Zak oscillations
Brown–Zak oscillations are quantum oscillations in the electrical conductivity of two-dimensional electron systems in a magnetic field and periodic potential, first reported in graphene superlattices in 2017.
Brown, Boveri & Cie
Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) was a Swiss electrical engineering company founded in Baden in 1891 by Charles Brown and Walter Boveri, merging with ASEA in 1988 to form ABB.
Brown's Chicken massacre
Brown's Chicken massacre: January 8, 1993 shooting murder of seven employees at a Brown's Chicken & Pasta in Palatine, Illinois; unsolved nine years until DNA on preserved chicken matched Juan Luna; Luna and James Degorski got life sentences.
Browne Falls
Browne Falls is a multi-step cascade in Fiordland, New Zealand, dropping 836 m from Lake Browne into Doubtful Sound; often called the country's tallest waterfall, a claim disputed in favor of the free-falling 580 m Sutherland Falls.
Brownfield (software development)
Brownfield development is the practice of adding new software functionality by modifying or extending an existing system, often with live users and legacy code to protect.
Brownfield land
Brownfield land: previously developed or potentially contaminated land whose reuse is complicated by hazardous substances (US EPA sense) or prior development (UK NPPF sense). Covers assessment, risk-based cleanup, costs versus greenfield, and UK registers.
Brownhart Law
Brownhart Law: small Roman fortlet or signal station beside Dere Street in the Cheviots on the Anglo-Scottish border, found from the air in 1945 by St Joseph, linked with Rubers Law, scheduled as SM2168.
Brownian bridge
A Brownian bridge is a stochastic process: standard Brownian motion on [0, 1] conditioned to return to 0 at time 1, used in statistics and finance.
Brownian dynamics
Brownian dynamics, also known as Brownian dynamics simulation, is a stochastic simulation method that computes the diffusive motion of particles in a fluid, treating the solvent implicitly.
Brownian excursion
A Brownian excursion is a stochastic process on [0, 1] that behaves like Brownian motion conditioned to stay nonnegative and to return to 0 at both endpoints.
Brownian meander
The Brownian meander is a stochastic process, the weak limit of Brownian motion conditioned to stay positive, identified by Durrett, Iglehart, and Miller in 1977.
Brownian motion
Brownian motion, or Brownian diffusion, is the irregular movement of particles suspended in a fluid, explained by Einstein in 1905 and named for Robert Brown, who observed it in 1827.
Brownian motion in higher dimensions
Brownian motion in higher dimensions is the vector-valued generalization of the Wiener process to n dimensions, where planar paths return infinitely often but paths in three or more dimensions escape to infinity.