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Bowers may refer to: Persons *Bowers (surname) Places ;Antarctica * Bowers Mountains * Bowers Piedmont Glacier ;United Kingdom * Bowers, Staffordshire, England * Bowers Gifford, Essex, England ;United States * Bowers, Delaware * Bowers, Indiana * Bowers, Pennsylvania * Bowers, Wisconsin * Bowers House (other), several structures * Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California * Bowers Stadium, Sam Houston University, Texas Other uses * Bowers & Wilkins, a loudspeaker company in the United Kingdom * USS ''Bowers'' (DE-637) * ''Bowers v. Hardwick'', a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision * '' Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co.'', a 1926 U.S. Supreme Court decision * Bowers Coaches, a bus company based in the High Peak area of Derbyshire in England * Bowers' operators, a way to write large numbers * Betty Bowers, a fictional character See also * Bauer (other) * Bower (other) Bower may refer to: Arts and entertainment * '' Catherine, or The Bower'', an unfinish ...
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Bowers (surname)
The surname Bowers is of Saxon origin, derived from the word 'bur' meaning 'a chamber; a cottage; a shady recess'. Adding 'er' to the end of topographical terms was common in south east England.Surname Database
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An alternative origin is " a maker of bows".House of Names
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Persons

* Barney Bowers (born 1959), British football player *

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Bowers Museum
The Bowers Museum is an art museum located in Santa Ana, California. The museum's permanent collection includes more than 100,000 objects, and features notable strengths in the areas of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, Native American art, the art of Asia, Africa, and Oceania, and California plein-air painting. The Bowers organizes and hosts special exhibitions from institutions throughout the world, and travels exhibitions nationally and internationally. The museum has a second campus two blocks south of the main site, Kidseum, a children's museum with a focus on art and archaeology. The Bowers Museum and Kidseum are located in Santa Ana 6.4 km (four miles) south of Disneyland. History Ada Elvira Bowers and her husband, Charles W. Bowers, a late 19th-century Orange County citrus grower and land developer, donated the land on which the museum stands to the city of Santa Ana as well as $100,000 to build the museum. The building was completed in 1932 but was not fully operational fo ...
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Betty Bowers
Deven Green (born January 31, 1975) is a Canadian comedian who produces comedy parody videos, including as the satirical character Mrs. Betty Bowers, "America's Best Christian". Early life and career Green was born and raised in Thompson, Manitoba, Canada, and holds dual Canadian–U.S. citizenship. She began working as a professional figure skater and later started her comedy career at The Second City in Toronto. She has acknowledged comedian Harland Williams as giving her a big break in Canada by casting her in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation stand-up comedy show ''Comics!''. She later moved to Los Angeles to further her career. Career Parody work Green portrays the satirical character Mrs. Betty Bowers, "America's Best Christian", created and written by writer Andrew Bradley. Green's comedic work also includes videos that offer her comic parodies and commentary of existing footage of other entertainers. Green is best known in this genre for her viral video par ...
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Bowers Coaches
Bowers Coaches was a bus company based in Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, England. The company operated bus and coach services in Cheshire East, Derbyshire and Greater Manchester from 1952 until 2012. In its later years, it was a subsidiary of Centrebus and in 2012 it was merged with the Dove Holes depot of Trent Barton to form High Peak Buses. History Bowers Coaches was founded in 1952 by Eric Bower as a coach operator. In 1957, the charter operations of Park Hire Garages & Motors were acquired. It later expanded into local bus operation, particularly after the deregulation of local bus services in 1986. Based in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, it operated services centred on the towns of Buxton, Glossop and New Mills extending to some surrounding areas such as the town of Marple in Stockport and Ashbourne in the Derbyshire Dales. In June 2007, the business was purchased by Centrebus who introduced its corporate orange and blue livery, but retained the Bowers tra ...
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Bowers may refer to: Persons *Bowers (surname) Places ;Antarctica * Bowers Mountains * Bowers Piedmont Glacier ;United Kingdom * Bowers, Staffordshire, England * Bowers Gifford, Essex, England ;United States * Bowers, Delaware * Bowers, Indiana * Bowers, Pennsylvania * Bowers, Wisconsin * Bowers House (other), several structures * Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California * Bowers Stadium, Sam Houston University, Texas Other uses * Bowers & Wilkins, a loudspeaker company in the United Kingdom * USS ''Bowers'' (DE-637) * ''Bowers v. Hardwick'', a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision * '' Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co.'', a 1926 U.S. Supreme Court decision * Bowers Coaches, a bus company based in the High Peak area of Derbyshire in England * Bowers' operators, a way to write large numbers * Betty Bowers, a fictional character See also * Bauer (other) * Bower (other) Bower may refer to: Arts and entertainment * '' Catherine, or The Bower'', an unfinish ...
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USS Bowers (DE-637)
USS ''Bowers'' (DE-637/APD-40), a ''Buckley'' class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Ensign Robert K. Bowers (1915-1941), who was killed in action aboard the battleship USS ''California'' during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. ''Bowers'' was laid down on 28 May 1943 at San Francisco, California, by the Bethlehem Steel Company; launched on 31 October, sponsored by Mrs. Eunice Bowers, the mother of Ens. Bowers; and commissioned on 27 January 1944. Service history World War II From 15 February to 15 March 1944, the new destroyer escort carried out shakedown training out of San Diego San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a 2020 population of 1,386,932, it is the eighth most populous city in the United State ... and then returned north to San Francisco for post-shakedown availability. She departed S ...
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Bowers & Wilkins
Bowers & Wilkins, commonly known as B&W, is a British company that produces consumer and professional loudspeakers and headphones. B&W was founded in 1966 by John Bowers in Worthing, West Sussex, England. In October 2020, B&W was acquired by Sound United, a holding company who owns several other audio brands. Technology, research and development Research and development has been a core activity within B&W, stimulated and exercised by its founder John Bowers (1922–1987). From the start of the company, earnings were invested in new product development. In 1982 the company opened a dedicated, purpose-built research centre titled 'SRE' or 'Steyning Research Establishment' in Steyning, about 10 miles from Worthing. The buildings were fit for audio-related work since they were previously used by SME, the English tonearm designer who felt the downturn in tonearm sales due to the introduction of the new digital media CD. SRE housed a prototype shop and listening rooms, ranging fro ...
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Bowers Stadium
Elliott T. Bowers Stadium is a 12,593-seat multi-purpose stadium in Huntsville, Texas. The stadium has been home to the Sam Houston State University Bearkats football since 1986. Previously, the team played their homes games at Pritchett Field, which currently plays host to the University's women soccer team. The Bearkats are members of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). Bowers Stadium is also home to the Huntsville Hornets, the local high school team. History Bowers stadium was named in honor of Dr. Elliott T. Bowers, a former president of Sam Houston State University. The stadium is located on campus at Sam Houston State University. The address for Bowers Stadium is 620 Bowers Blvd, Huntsville, Texas. Renovations In 2012, brand-new orange chairbacks were installed, replacing the older chairbacks previously in their place along with new parking lot locker rooms. In April 2013, The stadium added a video replay system scoreboard, an elevator leading up to the press box, and gu ...
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Bowers House (other)
Bowers House may refer to: ;in the United States ''(by state then city)'' * Bowers House, an intentional community in the form of a student co-op in Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois * John S. Bowers House, Decatur, Indiana * Bowers House (Wichita, Kansas), listed on the NRHP in Sedwick County * Jerathmell Bowers House, Lowell, Massachusetts * Jonathan Bowers House, Lowell, Massachusetts * Joseph Bowers House, Amasa, Michigan * Bowers Mansion, Reno, Nevada * Bowers-Livingston-Osborn House, Parsippany, New Jersey * Dr. Wesley Bowers House, Southampton, New York * Bowers-Tripp House, Washington, North Carolina * Hoffman-Bowers-Josey-Riddick House, Scotland Neck, North Carolina * Dovel-Bowers House, Pickerington, Ohio, listed on the NRHP in Fairfield County * George W. and Hetty A. Bowers House, Portland, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places * Bowers-Kirkpatrick Farmstead, Gray, Tennessee, listed on the NRHP in Washington County * Bowers-Felts House, Luf ...
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Bowers Mountains
__NOTOC__ Bowers Mountains () is a group of north–south trending mountains in Antarctica, about 145 km (90 mi) long and 56 km (35 mi) wide, bounded by the coast on the north and by the Rennick, Canham, Black and Lillie glaciers in other quadrants. The seaward end was first sighted in February 1911 from the ''Terra Nova'', under Lt. Harry L.L. Pennell, RN, and was subsequently named "Bowers Hills" in honour of Henry Robertson Bowers who perished with Captain Robert Falcon Scott on their return from the South Pole in 1912. The mountain range is one of the most extensive topographical features within Victoria Land. The feature was photographed from U.S. Navy aircraft in 1946-47 and 1960–62, and was surveyed and mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1962–63. The name was amended to Bowers Mountains upon USGS mapping which showed the group to be a major one with peaks rising to nearly 2,600 metres. The major topographical feature lies sit ...
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Bowers, Wisconsin
Bowers is an unincorporated community located in the town of Lafayette, Walworth County, Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ..., United States. Notes Unincorporated communities in Walworth County, Wisconsin Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin {{WalworthCountyWI-geo-stub ...
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