Bowers may refer to:
Persons
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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.
Places
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Bowers Mountains
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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 gla ...
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Bowers Piedmont Glacier
Bowers Piedmont Glacier is a piedmont glacier on the coast of Victoria Land, covering about and lying just south of New Harbour (Antarctica), New Harbour. It merges at its south side with Blue Glacier (Antarctica), Blue Glacier.
It was discovere ...
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Bowers, Staffordshire, England
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Bowers Gifford
Bowers Gifford is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet, in southern Essex, England. It is located east of Basildon, between Pitsea and Thundersley. Pillboxes in the surrounding fields tes ...
, Essex, England
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Bowers, Delaware
Bowers (commonly known as Bowers Beach) is a town in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the city is 335.
History
Bowers Beach wa ...
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Bowers, Indiana
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Bowers, Pennsylvania
Bowers is a census-designated place in Maxatawny Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located near the borough of Lyons and is on Sacony Creek, a tributary of the Maiden Creek
Maiden Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. Na ...
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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 popul ...
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Bowers House (disambiguation) 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, Ka ...
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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 A ...
, Santa Ana, California
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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, whi ...
, Sam Houston University, Texas
Other uses
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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 ...
, a loudspeaker company in the United Kingdom
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USS ''Bowers'' (DE-637)
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Bowers v. Hardwick
''Bowers v. Hardwick'', 478 U.S. 186 (1986), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld, in a 5–4 ruling, the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults ...
'', a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision
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Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co.
''Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co.'', 271 U.S. 170 (1926), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that no taxable income arose from the repayment in German mark
The Deutsche Mark (; English: ''German mark''), abbreviated "DM ...
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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 ...
, a bus company based in the High Peak area of Derbyshire in England
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Bowers' operators, a way to write large numbers
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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, Ma ...
, a fictional character
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Bauer (disambiguation)
Bauer is a German surname meaning "peasant" or "farmer". For notable people sharing the surname, see Bauer (surname).
Bauer may also refer to:
Education and literature
* Bauer's Lexicon, a dictionary of Biblical Greek
* Bauer College of Bus ...
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Bower (disambiguation)
Bower may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Catherine, or The Bower'', an unfinished Jane Austen novel
* A high-ranking card (usually a Jack) in certain card games:
** The Right and Left Bower (or Bauer), the two highest-ranking cards in the g ...
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