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  Nebraska Athletics to Honor Bob Brown - Huskers.com—Nebraska Athletics Official Web Site
Brown was a first-round draft pick and the second selection overall by Philadelphia in 1964 and went on to enjoy a 10-year NFL career, including five years with the Philadelphia Eagles (1964-65-66-67-68), two with the Los Angeles Rams (1969-70) and three with the Oakland Raiders (1971-72-73).
Brown was known as a very aggressive blocker who utilized his great size (6-4, 295 pounds) and strength to neutralize hard-charging pass rushers.
Brown jogged out onto the field for the team’s first practice, and when he reached the end zone, he psyched himself up with a forearm to the padded goalpost—which then came crashing to the ground.
www.huskers.com /ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=1&SPID=22&DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=87547   (1050 words)

  
  Bob Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bob Brown has led the Australian Greens during a period of growth from a party on the political fringe, to one which now polls at close to 10% at state and federal level, runs candidates in nearly every seat, and have won seats in six of the eight states/territories and at the federal level.
Bob Brown has been known for vocal protest campaigns, which created international headlines on October 23, 2003 when he was suspended from the Parliament for interjecting during an address by the visiting President of the United States, George W. Bush.
Brown was equally critical of Opposition Leader Kim Beazley's acquiescence to John Howard's stance on the Tampa incident[3].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Brown   (1196 words)

  
 The Gordon Poole Entertainment Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bob couldn’t swim very well when he entered into the Triathlon, he didn’t do very well in this event, but he enjoyed it and decided that this was the sport for him so started training to develop the skills that he required to become a Triathlon success.
Bob knew that he would never win the ‘Ironman’ race, he knew that he needed to compete in a competition that was longer.
Bob is an inspirational speaker, and the ability to motivate and inspire your guests with his fascinating story to victory.
www.gordonpoole.com /speakers/BobBrown.htm   (807 words)

  
 Bob Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brown, 78, came to Michigan Tech in 1951 as a member of the forestry faculty and was instrumental in establishing the Department of Biological Sciences in 1962.
Brown had served as president of the Michigan Tech Credit Union, the Faculty Association, the MTU Sigma Xi Club and the local chapter of AAUP, and was a member of the Faculty Senate.
Bob laughed as he remembered one group that planned on fresh caught fish for some of their meals.
forest.mtu.edu /faculty/brown   (1089 words)

  
 Greens Senator Bob Brown
Bob Brown: Of course, I and my fellow Greens - Kerry Nettle in the Senate and Michael Organ, the member for Cunningham, in the Lower House - are members of the parliament and will be going to these sittings.
Bob Brown: Ron Boswell is the Leader of The Nationals in the Senate.
Bob Brown: The changes the Greens have put forward are in fact to improve democracy again.
seven.com.au /sundaysunrise/features_031019_brown   (1531 words)

  
 Senator Bob Brown:
In 1983 Senator Bob Brown led the blockade of the dam-works on Tasmania's Franklin River.
BOB BROWN: Here's the sign for the World Heritage Area, so we're really just now going...suddenly we're out of the exploitable area into this World Heritage Area, which came out of the Franklin campaign and the blockade.
JANE CUNNINGHAM: Bob Brown says one of the reasons he's able to stay sane in the hothouse environment of federal politics is his sense of connection to the wilderness.
www.abc.net.au /dimensions/dimensions_people/Transcripts/s849441.htm   (886 words)

  
 ESPN Classic - Brown muscles his way to Canton
Brown, who made six Pro Bowls and earned All-NFL honors five times during a career that lasted from 1964-73, will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday along with John Elway, Barry Sanders and Carl Eller.
Brown was the second overall selection in the 1964 NFL draft by Philadelphia -- San Francisco took Texas Tech tight end Dave Parks at No. 1 -- and the first pick of that year's AFL draft, by Denver.
Young, a fullback who first played with Brown on their ninth grade team in Cleveland, said his best friend was nimble for a big man, which helped him kick and play linebacker and tackle for the Cornhuskers.
espn.go.com /classic/s/2004/0805/1852837.html   (744 words)

  
 Bob Brown for House - Home
Bob began his career as a banker in California starting with Lloyd's of London in 1982 and concluding with Wells Fargo in 1996.
Bob's involvement as a Legislative Liaison for his industry and as a precinct committeeman in his district has provided him the insight into the workings of Arizona's state government.
Bob's unique background in both business and community activism make Bob a candidate who will be ready to serve district 22 from day one.
www.electbobbrown.com   (153 words)

  
 How green is Brown's valley - Election 2004 - www.smh.com.au
Brown is at ease with the limelight these days but for many years seems to have found life itself a struggle.
Brown was a shy child, the son of a country policeman, the odd one out in a family where his brothers (one older, one younger) and twin sister Jan, as well as four uncles were all at various times in the police force.
Brown and his fellow-campaigners eventually won the Franklin battle, and the formal Greens movement in Australia was born out of the organisations, like the Tasmanian Wilderness Society, which he helped to set up.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/09/30/1096527861329.html   (2073 words)

  
 Bob Brown Service Solutions - Referral List
Bob Brown is the finest presenter/coach of winning behaviors that impress customers that we have ever known.
Bob didn’t need much persuading to come to Ireland, and was such a hit on his first visit that we had to plead with Bob for an extended second visit, less than a year later.
Bob Brown’s strengths are not only in being able to provide a practical roadmap to deliver sustainable excellent service, but also in advising and the set up of restaurant and bar concepts.
www.bobbrownss.com /referral.htm   (862 words)

  
 Senator Bob Brown : About
Some of the many issues that Bob has raised in the Senate include petrol sniffing in Central Australia, self-determination for West Papua and Tibet, saving Tasmania’s ancient forests, opposing the war in Iraq, justice for David Hicks, stopping the sale of the Snowy Hydro scheme and opposing the dumping of nuclear waste in Australia.
The 2007 election saw Bob re-elected to the Senate for a third term along with two new Greens Senators in WA and SA.
Bob received the highest personal Senate vote in Tasmania and was elected with more than a quota in his own right.
www.bobbrown.org.au /200_about.php   (181 words)

  
 SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Bulldog Bob Brown
Bulldog's brother Doug Brown is a partner and co-promoter of the International Wrestling Alliance in Winnipeg with Tony Condello.
Bob Brown was an important figure in because he was an example of regional wrestling and what it unfortunately used to be.
I had known Bob Brown for many, many years and he was one of the truly nicest people I had ever met in the business.
www.canoe.ca /SlamWrestling/bulldogbrown.html   (2711 words)

  
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Of Irish descent, Robert E. Lee "Bob" Brown was born May 22, 1910 in Geneva, Indiana, the youngest of five children.Both his father and uncle were oil drillers, a trade learned from their father.
Bob lent him five dollars to help make up the first month's rent and he painted the rooms that were to be used as the school, and when the doors opened, Bob was the first of the eight students that made up the student body that year.
In addition, Bob discovered that he had much greater success carving leather with a converted screwdriver than with the traditional swivel knife, so from that time on, that is all he used.
www.geostan.ca /brown.html   (1992 words)

  
 MIT - Farewell reception for Provost Bob Brown
We are holding a farewell open house for Bob Brown on Tuesday, July 26, 3:00 - 5:00 pm, at the RandD Pub in the Stata Center.
Brown, who also holds the Warren K. Lewis Professorship in chemical engineering, has spent his career thus far at MIT, joining the faculty in 1979 as an assistant professor and rising through the ranks to department head, dean of engineering and provost.
For more about Bob Brown, see the MIT News Office or visit his website at http://web.mit.edu/provost/.
www.mit.edu /spotlight/bob-brown   (401 words)

  
 The World Today - Bob Brown unfazed by conservative attacks
BOB BROWN: That was support for NSW Government legislation which simply made the age of consent for adults of both sexes the same.
BOB BROWN: During the Franklin campaign, you know, I was followed down the street at night by a man with an iron bar and we had threats of terrible things happening if we turned up at protests — and that's gone.
BOB BROWN: People are looking for a vision out of politics, and they're not getting it from the major parties.
www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1213412.htm   (837 words)

  
 Bob Brown Website
Bob went out of his way to show us multiple properties and helped us filter out the ones he knew we wouldn't be interested in.
Bob also went the extra mile to negotiate a more than fair price for us when he negotiated the asking price down by more than $5,000.
Bob's professionalism, market knowledge and drive to put his client's interest number one was a truly wonderful experience.
www.bobbrownrealty.com /3/W0000014350/P0000268252.htm   (560 words)

  
 SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Bulldog Bob Brown
Bulldog's brother Doug Brown is a partner and co-promoter of the International Wrestling Alliance in Winnipeg with Tony Condello.
Bob Brown was an important figure in because he was an example of regional wrestling and what it unfortunately used to be.
I had known Bob Brown for many, many years and he was one of the truly nicest people I had ever met in the business.
slam.canoe.ca /SlamWrestling/bulldogbrown.html   (2701 words)

  
 BOB BROWN   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brown gained his training as a deputy sheriff for the Orange County Sheriff's Office and working as an officer with the Florida Highway Patrol.
Brown's work has been immortalized in other forms of media, including novels and a movie for the big screen.
Bob is always a step ahead of everything when it comes to staying on the cutting edge of the private investigative profession.
www.pimall.com /nais/nl/n.crbrown.html   (904 words)

  
 Bob Brown's loony green economic policies
Is Brown too stupid to realise that the industries he sneeringly calls dinosaurs are at the very highest stages of production and that damaging them would inevitably halt economic growth because their products are vital inputs for the lower stages of production that produce consumer goods?
Brown argued "that it is in the green-backed arena of … labour intensive … small businesses that Tasmania's future job creation lies." Judging by other comments this must go for the economy as a whole.
It ought to be clear that Brown's economic views are incompatible with Australians aspirations for higher living standards.
www.brookesnews.com /bob-brown.html   (897 words)

  
 Bob Brown Law, P.C. - Mansfield, Texas
Bob Brown is personally involved with each client, and his experience and charitable contributions to the community and world abroad demonstrate his passion to help others in his professional and personal life.
Bob Brown has personally been practicing law for over 25 years and is committed to the success and satisfaction of each and every client, and he is highly regarded in the legal field.
Bob Brown Law Firm, P.C. is also a fee attorney office of Alamo Title Company and performs closing services for commercial and residential real estate transactions and facilitates the issuance of title policies through Alamo Title.
www.bobbrownlaw.com /index.html   (206 words)

  
 Bob Brown
Bob maintained the #77 on the side of many modifieds for more years than I can remember, and while he was never a top runner, he was a great sportsman and a gentleman.
Betty Brown held her own in the Powder Puff Division, and in '68 was the Chairman for the Programs.
Bob ran #77 out at Lakeside from the first night I went in 1959 until I was drafted into the Army in 1972.
www.coloradoracingmemories.com /crm_brown_bob/crmbrownbob.htm   (912 words)

  
 PAGE OF FAME: Bulldog Bob Brown
According to one report, Brown trained early in his career in Minneapolis with Verne Gagne and Bronko Nagurski.
Brown's final title with a major promotion was the Stampede International tag title which he won with his "son" Kerry Brown (who was actually a nephew) in 1989.
Brown died in February 1997 and was reportedly 58 years old.
www.garywill.com /wrestling/canada/brown.htm   (321 words)

  
 ABC News: Bob Brown
Brown went to Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta of Vietnam to report on an outcast, the daughter of an American serviceman and a Vietnamese mother, who rose to become one of Vietnam’s most popular entertainers and discovered her father in the process.
Brown also reported on a 35-year-old mother, dying of cancer, who placed a lifetime of comfort, advice and opinions for her young daughter on videotape.
Brown also received the Bronze Wrangler Award for Best Television Documentary Writing from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame for his report, “On the Range.” He was honored with the 1994 CINE Golden Eagle Award for the segment, “A Dream Come True,” a story of a woman who believes she was reincarnated.
abcnews.go.com /2020/story?id=126170   (774 words)

  
 Australian Greens senator Bob Brown marks 10 years in Parliament - Wikinews, the free news source
Bob Brown was elected to the Senate in 1996, and re-elected in 2001.
Senator Brown says his party has hardly been in the balance of power at any stage, yet the Australian Greens have risen in popularity.
Bob Brown is among 20 environmentalists, organisations and concerned citizens who were issued a 216 page writ by the Tasmanian-based timber company Gunns Limited in December 2004.
en.wikinews.org /wiki/Australian_Greens_senator_Bob_Brown_marks_10_years_in_Parliament   (848 words)

  
 Robert "Bob" Brown
Bob Brown is my uncle - my father's "little" brother.
I was 13 at the time and recall some comments about Uncle Bob already "earning" his purple heart in Korea.
Bob served as an NCO for most of his 20 years service with the Army - one of the guys who quietly carried the load and served during some very difficult times.
www.brownieb.com /bobb/bobbrown.htm   (96 words)

  
 Bob Brown: Guest Columnist
Bob Brown is also a retired Michigan Technological University professor of biology.
Bob and Viola Brown, of Houghton, founding members of the Copper Country Peace Alliance, pause near the Portage Lift Bridge during a "Walk for Peace" in March 2002.
Bob Brown writes letters to the editor and to legislators on peace, justice and environmental issues.
www.keweenawnow.com /contributors/bob_brown.htm   (432 words)

  
 Brown has a bob each way and is left with no place to stand on Iraq - On Line Opinion - 28/7/2004
Brown’s posturing is undoubtedly hypocritical: one minute Australia is “sitting on its hands” as Iraqis are butchered, the next it is breaching international law by participating in the intervention he demanded.
Not quite the portfolio of experience one would expect Brown to value so highly, especially when one considers Wilkie’s CV also boasts a stint at one of America’s largest arms manufacturer Raytheon, where to use Wilkie’s own words, he acted as a “gun runner”.
Far from regarding Wilkie’s employment history as a matter of concern, however, Brown insisted it was all the more reason to conclude his new recruit was a “fantastic candidate” and claimed his career in armaments facilitation had been a “bonus” for the Greens.
www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=2406   (1053 words)

  
 Bob Brown
Brown, who lived in Palo Alto but died in Massachusetts where he kept a summer home, was a leading voice of that generation of clerics who came of age during the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War.
Brown received his masters of divinity from the Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1945 and served as a naval chaplain in the Pacific.
Brown, whose health had deteriorated the last few years, suffered a broken hip in a fall about a month ago and died at a nursing home in Greenfield, Mass., about 40 miles from Heath.
www.fprespa.org /bobbrown.htm   (1666 words)

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