John Moses Browning
1855-1926
American inventor who designed and produced a wide variety of firearms. The son of a gunsmith, he produced his first gun from scrap metal when he was thirteen. In the lat...
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Born in Ogden, Utah, John Browning spent most of his formative years in his father's gunsmith shop, where he made his first rifle out of scrap iron at the age of thirteen.In 1879, Browning received hi...
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London (dpa) - John Browne, the long-standing chief executive of
oil giant British Petroleum (BP), resigned with immediate effect
Tuesday, following revelations about his pr...
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BP PLC's Chief Executive John Browne resigned Tuesday, hours after a judge allowed a newspaper to publish allegations from a former boyfriend that the executive misused company resources.Browne, wh...
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A rare daguerreotype of abolitionist John Brown was bought Friday by an unidentified bidder for $97,750, an auctioneer said.The buyer, who bid by telephone, declined to be identified or to talk abo...
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London (dpa) - The sudden fall from power of John Browne, the
glittering boss of British Petroleum (BP), is sensational even by the
"kiss-and-tell" standards of Britain's ta...
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Minty Fresh peppers their roster with overseas acts (Prototypes, Klee, Husky Rescue) whose CDs are given a US re-release by the label. Alamo Race Track now joins the roster, releasing Black Cat Joh...
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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights, by David S. Reynolds. Alfred A. Knopf, 578 pages, $35.On Nov. 7, 1959, The Chicago Defender com...
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John Moses Browning
John Browning
ROUNDUP: BP's John Browne resigns after "gay" revelations
