Briggs may refer to:
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Briggs (surname)
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Briggs (rapper)
Adam Briggs (born 28 August 1986), who performs as Briggs and self-describes as Senator Briggs (although not a member of the Australian Senate), is an Indigenous Australian rapper, record label owner, comedy writer, actor, and author. Briggs be ...
, Australian rapper
Places
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Briggs, Nebraska, an unincorporated community
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Briggs, Ohio
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Briggs, Oklahoma
Briggs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 303 at the 2010 census.
History
The community is said to have been named for John Briggs, a local merchant.< ...
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Briggs, Texas
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Briggs, Virginia
Briggs is an unincorporated community in Clarke County, Virginia. Briggs is located on Lord Fairfax Highway ( U.S. Route 340).
Etymology
According to the Geographic Names Information System, Briggs was formerly known as Old Chapel.
Features
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Briggs Lake, a lake in Minnesota
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Briggs Islet
Briggs Islet is a small granite island, with an area of 3.4 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Great Dog Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group. I ...
, Tasmania, Australia
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Briggs Township, Ontario
Briggs Township is a geographic township comprising a portion of the municipality of Temagami in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is used for geographic purposes, such as land surveying and natural resource
Natural resources are resource ...
, Canada
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Briggs (crater), a lunar crater
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4209 Briggs, an asteroid discovered in 1986
Other uses
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Briggs & Stratton
Briggs & Stratton Corporation is an American manufacturer of gasoline engines with headquarters in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
Engine production averages 10 million units per year as of April 2015. The company reports that it has 13 large facili ...
, a manufacturer of air-cooled gasoline engines
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Briggs v. Elliott
''Briggs v. Elliott'', 342 U.S. 350 (1952), on appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina, challenged school segregation in Summerton, South Carolina. It was the first of the five cases combined into ''Brown v. ...
'', one of the school segregation cases consolidated with ''Brown v. Board of Education''
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Briggs Automotive Company
Briggs Automotive Company (BAC) is a British car manufacturer that created Mono, a road-legal sports car with only one seat. BAC is based in the city of Liverpool, United Kingdom, Mono cars are exported to 46 countries around the world.
Backgrou ...
or BAC, a car manufacturing company
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Briggs Initiative
California Proposition 6, informally known as the Briggs Initiative, was a ballot initiative put to a referendum on the California state ballot in the November 7, 1978 election. It was sponsored by John Briggs, a conservative state legislator ...
, either of two pieces of Californian legislation sponsored by John Briggs
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Briggs Manufacturing Company
Briggs Manufacturing was an American, Detroit-based manufacturer of automobile bodies for Ford Motor Company, Chrysler Corporation and other U.S. and European automobile manufacturers.
In 1953 it was bought by Chrysler Corporation without its fo ...
, manufacturer of car bodies for Ford and Chrysler
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The Briggs
The Briggs are a punk rock band based out of Los Angeles, California. The Band Formed in 1999 under the name "I Decline" by brothers Joey and Jason LaRocca and bassist Matthew Stolarz (a.k.a. Duck). In 2001, with the addition of drummer Chris A ...
, a punk rock band
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Myers–Briggs Type Indicator
In personality typology, the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an introspective self-report questionnaire indicating differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. The test attempts to assign ...
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