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 his first patent for a single-shot rifle that was...

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 late 1890s he developed an automatic machine-gun that used propelling gas...

John Moses Browning (January 21[1] or January 23,[2] 1855 – November 26, 1926), born in Ogden, Utah, was an American firearms designer who developed many varieties of firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms, many of which are still in use around the...

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, who had already moved up his departure by more than a year after a deadly refinery blast...

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 about the purchase, auctioneer Wes Cowan said.Cowan, an occasional appraiser on the PBS show...

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 John Brown shortly after they appeared at SXSW in 2007. The band’s first...

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 commemorated the centennial of John Brown's death: "The paradox of Brown's idealistic goals...