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Brion (Irish)
Brion or Brión may refer to: Places France *Brion, Ain * Brion, Indre * Brion, Isère * Brion, Lozère *Brion, Saône-et-Loire * Brion, Vienne * Brion, Yonne * Brion-près-Thouet *Brion-sur-Ource *Manoir de Brion, a Benedictine priory *Hôtel Brion, an Art Nouveau ''hôtel particulier'' in Strasbourg Elsewhere *Brion Island, Canada *Brión, a municipality in Galicia, Spain *Brión Municipality, Miranda, Venezuela People *Brión mac Echach Muigmedóin (extant around 362), son of Eochaid Mugmedon *Brion James, American character actor, starring in ''Another 48 Hours'' *Brion Vibber, lead developer of Mediawiki software *Louis Brion de la Tour (1743–1803), French geographer *Friederike Brion, Alsatian muse of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe *Jon Brion (born 1963), American musician * Luis Brion, Venezuelan almirant *Skip Brion, Pennsylvania politician Fictional characters * Prince Brion Markov (alias Geo-Force), main character of the ''Young Justice'' comic in the third season, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brion, Ain
Brion () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. INSEE The name comes from the Latin word ''Bria'' meaning ''fortress'', and it is home to a ruined castle. has rail connections to Bourg-en-Bresse and Oyonnax. Population See also *Communes of the Ain department
The following is a list of the 393 communes of the Ain department of France.
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Brión Municipality, Miranda
Brion is one of the 21 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Miranda and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 56,699. The town of Higuerote is the municipal seat A municipal seat or ''cabecera municipal'' is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a municipality or civil parish with other villes or towns subordinated. The term is used in Brazil, Colombia, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outsiders
Outsider(s) may refer to: Film * ''Outsider'' (1997 film), a 1997 Slovene-language film * ''Outsider'' (2012 film), a Malayalam-language Indian film * ''Outsiders'' (1980 film), a South Korean film featuring Won Mi-kyung Literature * Outsider (Known Space), a fictional species in Larry Niven's Known Space universe * Outsider (comics), a character in various DC Comics storylines * ''Outsiders'' (comics), a team of freakish superheroes published by DC Comics **'' Young Justice: Outsiders'', a TV series featuring the team * Outsiders (Dresden Files), a fictional species of magical creatures in Jim Butcher's ''The Dresden Files'' novels * ''Outsiders'', a book by American sociologist Howard S. Becker * Outsider, a pseudonym used by Aarne Haapakoski Music * Outsider music, a category of music independent of the music industry * Outsider (rapper), a South Korean speed rapper Albums * ''Outsider'' (Three Days Grace album), 2018 * ''Outsider'' (Uriah Heep album), 2014 * ''Outsid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geo-Force
Geo-Force (Prince Brion Markov) is a fictional superhero character appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. Markov is the younger Prince Twin of Markovia and the elder brother of Terra. One of the founding members of the superhero group the Outsiders, he first appeared in a special insert in ''The Brave and the Bold'' #200 (July 1983). The character was created by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo. The character has made scattered appearances throughout animated and live-action media, such as '' Young Justice: Outsiders'' and the third season of the Arrowverse series ''Black Lightning'', portrayed by Jahking Guillory. Fictional character biography Batman and the Outsiders Dr. Helga Jace used a device to give Prince Brion Markov superpowers with which he could stop an insurrection mounted by the evil Baron Bedlam. Five other superheroes converge on Markovia for various reasons of their own. Veteran heroes Batman, Metamorpho, and Black Lightning join forces with Geo-Force and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skip Brion
Joseph E. "Skip" Brion is an American politician and attorney from the state of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Republican Party. Brion is a former chairman of the Chester County Republican Committee, a position he held for 15 years. He resigned from the post in 2011 when Governor Tom Corbett appointed him to fill a vacancy on the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) is an independent government agency that manages the beverage alcohol industry in Pennsylvania by administering the Pennsylvania Liquor Code. It is responsible for licensing the possession, sale, sto .... He was chairman of the PLCB from his 2011 appointment through February 2015; he remained a PLCB member until Nov. 19, 2015. He is currently a partner at the West Chester law firm of Buckley, Brion, McGuire, Morris and Sommer. References Living people Pennsylvania Republicans Year of birth missing (living people) Saint Joseph's University alumni Villanova Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Brion
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Origins The Germanic name (and its variants) is usually said to be composed of the words for "fame" () and "warrior" () and hence may be translated to ''famous warrior'' or "famous in battle". According to Dutch onomatologists however, it is more likely that the first stem was , meaning fame, which would give the meaning 'warrior for the gods' (or: 'warrior who captured stability') for the full name.J. van der Schaar, ''Woordenboek van voornamen'' (Prisma Voornamenboek), 4e druk 1990; see also thLodewijs in the Dutch given names database Modern forms of the name are the German name Ludwig and the Dutch form Lodewijk. and the other Iberian forms more closely resemble the French name Louis, a derivat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Brion
Jon Brion is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and composer. He performed with the Excerpts, the Bats, 'Til Tuesday and the Grays before becoming an established producer and film score composer. Brion has produced music for artists and bands including Of Montreal, Aimee Mann, Love Jones, Eels, Fiona Apple, Elliott Smith, Robyn Hitchcock, Rhett Miller, The Crystal Method, Kanye West, Sky Ferreira and Mac Miller. According to ''Stereogum,'' Brion's work on Mann's first solo albums "lay the groundwork for a sound that became synonymous with a strain of notable alternative acts at the turn of the century". Brion's film scores include '' Hard Eight'' (1996), ''Magnolia'' (1999), ''Punch-Drunk Love'' (2002), '' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' and ''I Heart Huckabees'' (both 2004), '' Synecdoche, New York'' (2008), ''ParaNorman'' (2012), '' Lady Bird'' (2017), and ''Christopher Robin'' (2018). He released his debut solo album, '' Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friederike Brion
Friederike Elisabeth BrionKarl Robert Mandelkow, Bodo Morawe: ''Goethes Briefe''. 2nd edition, vol. 1: ''Briefe der Jahre 1764–1786'' (Hamburg: Christian Wegner, 1968, p. 571. (probably 19 April 1752 – 3 April 1813) was a parson's daughter who had a short but intense love affair with the young Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Biography Born in Niederrœdern, Alsace, the date of birth of Friederike is uncertain because the parish registers were destroyed during the French Revolution. Friederike was the third of five surviving children of the married couple Brion. The father, Jakob Brion, took over a post as the parson of the village of Sessenheim on St. Martin's Day 1760. Friederike — pretty, lively, but a little sickly — grew up in the village. The young Johann Wolfgang Goethe from Frankfurt am Main visited the hospitable parsonage, like several other young people, while studying law in Strasbourg. He first reached Sessenheim in October 1770 and met Friederike ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Brion De La Tour
* Louis Brion de la Tour, (circa 1743 – 1803) was an 18th-century French geographer and Demography, demographer. Biography His family may have come from Bordeaux, having found asylum in Alsace when the Edict of Nantes was revoked by the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685. Generally, authors were careful to differentiate him from the engraver Antoine Brion from Reims, born in 1739. He was perhaps his son.BRUEL (F.-L.). Un siècle d'histoire de France par l'estampe, 1770-1871: Ancien régime, par F.-L. Bruel, B.N., coll. de Vinck, (1970), (p. 312). His official title was « Ingénieur Géographe du Roi » ("King's Engineer Geographer"). Although he was a prolific geographer, very little is known of his life or his career. His life passed in scientific work. However what is known is that an important part of his work was done in collaboration with Louis Charles Desnos (circa 1750–1790), bookseller and geographical engineer for globes and spheres of His Danish Majesty. Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brion Vibber
MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software. It is used on Wikipedia and almost all other Wikimedia websites, including Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata; these sites define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWiki. It was developed for use on Wikipedia in 2002, and given the name "MediaWiki" in 2003. MediaWiki was originally developed by Magnus Manske and improved by Lee Daniel Crocker. Magnus Manske's announcement of "PHP Wikipedia", wikipedia-l, August 24, 2001 Its development has since then been coordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation. MediaWiki is written in the PHP programming language and stores all text content into a database. The software is optimized to efficiently handle large projects, which can have terabytes of content and hundreds of thousands of views per second. Because Wikipedia is one of the world's largest websites, achieving scalability through multiple layers of caching and database replication has been a major concern for dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brion James
Brion Howard James (February 20, 1945 – August 7, 1999) was an American character actor. He portrayed Leon Kowalski in ''Blade Runner'' and appeared in ''Southern Comfort'', '' 48 Hrs.'', ''Another 48 Hrs.'', '' Silverado'', ''Tango & Cash'', ''Red Heat'', '' The Player'', and ''The Fifth Element''. James was frequently cast as an antagonist, appearing more frequently in lower-budget horror and action films and TV shows throughout the 1980s and 1990s. James appeared in more than 100 films before he died of a heart attack at the age of 54. Early life and education James was born in Redlands, California. He spent his early years in Beaumont, California, where his parents owned and operated a movie theater; James said, "My story is like '' Cinema Paradiso''. Every night in my life since I was two years old... I ran movies". After graduating from high school in 1964, James attended San Diego State University as a Theater Arts major. Migrating to New York, James immersed himself in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brión Mac Echach Muigmedóin
Brión (or Brían), son of Eochaid Mugmedón, was a legendary and possibly historical Irish king, fl. 4th/5th century. Biography The older half-brother of Niall Noígíallach ( Niall of the Nine Hostages) and one of the three brothers whose descendants were known as the Connachta, Brión is said to have been king of Connacht. According to the traditional Irish chronology, his father died in 362. Brión's descendants, the Uí Briúin, gave rise to many Kings of Connacht and its ruling families over the next thousand years. A descendant of his via the Uí Briúin Ai was Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair, who became High King of Ireland in 1166. "The Violent Death of Crimthann mac Fidaig and of the Three Sons of Eochaid Muigmedón" gives the story of the sons of Eochaid Mugmedón. According to this saga, Brión was the favorite son of his mother Mongfind, sister of Crimthann mac Fidaig (d. 367), the king of Munster. She wanted Brión to succeed Eochaid but upon his death, war broke ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
