Brownie, Browny, or brownies may refer to:
Foods
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Chocolate brownie, a baked good
People
People with the given name
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Brownie Samukai
Brownie Jeffery Samukai Jr. is the former Minister of National Defence of Liberia. He took office on January 16, 2006, as part of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's Cabinet.
In the 1980s, he worked within the Liberian Ministry of National Defens ...
, Minister of National Defence of Liberia
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Brownie Wise
Brownie Mae Humphrey (May 25, 1913 – September 24, 1992) professionally Brownie Wise, was a pioneering American saleswoman largely responsible for the success of the home products company Tupperware, through her development of the "party plan ...
(1913–1992), developer of the party plan system of marketing for Tupperware
People with the surname
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Cavell Brownie, American statistician
Fictional characters
* Brownie, a fictional character in
''Ace Combat 7 : Skies Unknown''
People with the nickname
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Clifford Brown
Clifford Benjamin Brown (October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. He died at the age of 25 in a car accident, leaving behind four years' worth of recordings. His compositions "Sandu", "Joy Spring", an ...
(1930–1956), American jazz trumpeter
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Ernest Brown (dancer)
Ernest "Brownie" Brown (April 25, 1916 – August 21, 2009) was an African American tap dancer and last surviving member of the Original Copasetics. He was the dance partner of Charles "Cookie" Cook, with whom he performed from the days of vaudevi ...
(1916–2009), African-American tap dancer
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Lewis Brown (rugby league) Lewis Brown may refer to:
* Lewis H. Brown (1894–1951), American industrialist and founder of the American Enterprise Association
* Lewis H. Brown (American football) (1909–after 1960), American football player
* Lewis Brown (Liberia) (21st cen ...
(born 1986), New Zealand footballer
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Luke Brown (footballer, born 1992)
Luke Brown (born 22 September 1992) is a former professional Australian rules football player who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was first recruited by incoming club as a pre-selection and w ...
, Australian rules footballer
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Michael D. Brown
Michael DeWayne Brown (born November 8, 1954) is an American attorney and former government official who served as the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from 2003 to 2005. He joined FEMA as general counsel in 2001 an ...
, U.S. undersecretary of emergency preparedness and response
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Vernon Brown (musician)
Vernon Brown (January 6, 1907May 18, 1979) was an American jazz trombonist.
Career
Brown played in St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis
with Frankie Trumbauer in 1925–26, and moved through a variety of groups in the late 1920s and 1930s, includin ...
(1907–1979), American trombonist
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Brownie Foreman (1875–1926), Major League Baseball pitcher
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Browny Igboegwu (born 1976), Nigerian actor
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Brownie Ledbetter (1932–2010), political activist
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Brownie McGhee
Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an American folk music and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.
Life and career
McGhee was ...
(1915–1996), blues musician
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Agnes Vernon
Agnes Vernon (18951948) was an American film actress of the silent era. While still in her teens, she experienced a meteoric ascent from obscurity to box-office sensation. After turning twenty-three and a movie career fading away, she abandoned ...
(1895–1948), American actress
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Brownie (folklore)
A brownie or broonie ( Scots), also known as a or (Scottish Gaelic), is a household spirit or Hobgoblin from Scottish folklore that is said to come out at night while the owners of the house are asleep and perform various chores and farmi ...
, a legendary creature
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Brownie (guitar)
Brownie is the nickname for a Fender Stratocaster that was used extensively by Eric Clapton during the early 1970s, most notably with Derek and the Dominos on their 1970 album ''Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs''.
Overview
The guitar has ...
, a Fender Stratocaster used by Eric Clapton in the 1970s
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''Brownie'' (sculpture), a 1905 bronze by Louis Amateis at the Houston Zoo, Texas, US
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''Brownies'' (film), a 2004 Indonesian film by Hanung Bramantyo
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''Brownies'' (web series), Indian American web comic
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The Brownies
''The Brownies'' is a series of publications by Canadian illustrator and author Palmer Cox, based on names and elements from English traditional mythology and Scottish stories told to Cox by his grandmother. Illustrations with verse aimed at chi ...
'', a series of publications by Palmer Cox, 1879 onwards
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Brownies (company)
, formerly , is a Japanese video game developer founded on June 30, 2000, in Tokyo, Japan. They previously developed games in partnership with Nintendo subsidiary 1-Up Studio. On February 1, 2013, the company ended their co-development effor ...
, video game developer formerly known as Brownie Brown
Brands and enterprises
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Brownie (camera)
The Brownie was a series of cameras made by Eastman Kodak. Released in 1900, it introduced the snapshot to the masses. It was a basic cardboard box camera with a simple convex-concave lens that took 2 1/4-inch square pictures on No. 117 roll fi ...
, a popular inexpensive camera made by Eastman Kodak
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Bristol Brownie
The Bristol Type 91 Brownie was a light sports aircraft produced in the United Kingdom by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1924. It was a low-wing cantilever monoplane aircraft of conventional configuration with fixed tailskid undercarriage. ...
, a light sports airplane
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Brownie Chocolate Drink
Brownie Chocolate was a whey-based chocolate drink.
History
Produced from before the 1950s until the 2000s, Brownie Chocolate was similar to the better known Yoo-hoo beverage. Brownie is known to have been sold in Tennessee, Indiana, Florida, Vir ...
, a U.S. soft drink
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Mossberg Brownie
The Mossberg Brownie is a four shot, .22 Long Rifle pistol, similar to a derringer or pepperbox, produced by O.F. Mossberg & Sons from 1920 to 1932.James, Gary. "Handguns". ''Guns & Ammo'', February 2003 The Brownie is based on an earlier pisto ...
, a pistol
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St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway, or the Brownie
Other uses
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Brownie, Kentucky
Brownie was an unincorporated community located in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, United States. It eventually became part of Central City.
Notable people
*Don Everly, one of the Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers were an American rock duo, ...
, a former unincorporated community now part of Central City
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Algona Brownies
The Algona Brownies were an independent interracial baseball team that played in the 1902 and 1903 seasons. They were based in Algona, Iowa, and was primarily made up of former members of the Chicago Unions
The Chicago Unions were a professi ...
, a baseball team in Algona, Iowa, United States
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Brownie points
Brownie points in modern usage are an imaginary social currency, which can be acquired by doing good deeds or earning favor in the eyes of another, often one's spouse.
Conjectures for etymology
Girlguiding
A popular etymology is an allusion to t ...
, an imaginary social currency
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Brownies (Scouting)
Brownies are the section in the Girl Guides (or in the United States, Girl Scouts) organization for girls aged seven years old to ten years old. Exact age limits are slightly different in each organization.
History
Brownies, originally called ...
, a level in several Guiding/Scouting organizations
** Brownie, a level in
Woodcraft Indians
Woodcraft League of America, originally called the Woodcraft Indians and League of Woodcraft Indians, is a youth program, established by Ernest Thompson Seton in 1901. Despite the name, the program was created for non- Indian children. At first t ...
scouting for girls and boys ages 6–11
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Diplacus douglasii'' or brownies, a species of plant
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''Miletus'' (butterfly) or brownies, a genus of butterflies
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Blondie (confection)
A blondie (also known as a blonde brownie) is a variety of dessert bar. It resembles a chocolate brownie, but substitutes vanilla in place of cocoa, and contains brown sugar. Blondies also contain flour, butter, eggs, and baking powder and ma ...
, a brownie made without chocolate
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Brown (disambiguation)
Brown is a color.
Brown may also refer to:
Places In the United States
* Brown, California, an unincorporated community
* Brown, Louisiana, an unincorporated community
* Brown, Nevada, a ghost town
* Brown, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community ...
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