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Bradbury
Bradbury may refer to: People * Bradbury (surname) * Baron Bradbury, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, including three barons with the surname Bradbury. * Dan Bradbury, English professional golfer Places * Bradbury, County Durham, England * Bradbury, California, city of the United States of America * Bradbury Township, Minnesota, United States of America * Bradbury, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia *Bradbury Landing, Aeolis Palus, Mars Other uses *Bradbury Building The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. Built in 1893, the five-story office building is best known for its extraordinary skylit atrium of access walkways, stairs and elevators, and ..., Los Angeles, California * Bradbury Science Museum, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory * Justice Bradbury (other) * Bradbury Motor Cycles, a British motorcycle manufacturer based in Oldham, England * Bradbury Wilkinson and Company [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradbury Building
The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. Built in 1893, the five-story office building is best known for its extraordinary skylit atrium of access walkways, stairs and elevators, and their ornate ironwork. The building was commissioned by Los Angeles gold-mining millionaire Lewis L. Bradbury and constructed by architect George Wyman from the original design by Sumner Hunt. It appears in numerous works of fiction and has been the site of many movie and television shoots and music videos. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977, one of only four office buildings in Los Angeles to be so honored. It was also designated a landmark by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission and is the city's oldest landmarked building. History 19th century Lewis L. Bradbury, Sr. (November 6, 1823 – July 15, 1892)Wakim, Marielle"It Happened T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradbury Landing
Bradbury Landing is the August 6, 2012, landing site within Gale (crater), Gale crater on planet Mars of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover, ''Curiosity'' rover. On August 22, 2012, on what would have been his 92nd birthday, NASA named the site for author Ray Bradbury, who had died on June 5, 2012. The coordinates of the landing site on Mars are: . The rover drove away from this specific landing location in the summer of 2012, but because of the nature of landing there is no actual lander there. The track prints and blast marks are slowly blowing away in the Martian wind, as recorded by Mars orbiters. Description Gale Crater was the MSL landing site in 2012. Within Gale Crater is a mountain, named Aeolis Mons ("Mount Sharp"), of layered rocks, rising about above the crater floor, that ''Curiosity'' will investigate. The landing site is a smooth region in "Yellowknife" ''Quad 51'' of Aeolis Palus inside the crater in front of the mountain. The target landing si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradbury Motor Cycles
Bradbury Motor Cycles was a British motorcycle manufacturer based in Oldham, England and established in 1902. Originally involved in the manufacture of machine tools, sewing machines and cycles, their first motorcycles were bicycles with clip-on Minerva engines. The Bradbury factory went on to develop and produce a range of single-cylinder motorcycle, V-twins and horizontally opposed twins. The 1912 Bradbury motorcycles were one of the earliest with variable gearing. Although the factory survived the First World War it closed in 1924. History The company was established in 1852 as Bradbury & Co., and was Britain's and Europe's first sewing machine manufacturer. The first Bradbury bicycle appeared as early as 1895, and production continued until at least 1914. The company began manufacturing and marketing motorcycles in 1902 under the name Bradbury Motor Cycles. Their first motorcycle was a bicycle fitted with a 1¾ hp Minerva clip-on engine. In 1903 they began producing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradbury (surname)
Bradbury is an English toponymic surname, derived from Bredbury in historic Cheshire, or sometimes from Bradbury in County Durham. Notable people with the surname include: * Lady Joan Bradbury (née Leche) (c. 1465 – 1530) *Baron Bradbury, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, including three barons with the surname Bradbury *Bill Bradbury (1949–2023), American politician and Oregon Secretary of State * Bettina F. Bradbury, American soap opera writer * Bettina Bradbury, Canadian author and academic *Edward Kinder Bradbury (1881–1914), British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross * Edward P. Bradbury, pen name of Michael Moorcock (born 1939), English writer * Garrett Bradbury (born 1995), American football player *Henry Bradbury (1829–1860), English writer *Jack Bradbury (1914–2004), American animator and comic book artist *Jason Bradbury (born 1969), British television presenter * John Bradbury (naturalist) (1768–1823), Scottish botanist *John Bradbury, 1s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Bradbury
Baron Bradbury, of Winsford in the County of Chester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 28 January 1925 for the economist and public servant Sir John Bradbury. He was Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury from 1913 to 1919 and considered to be the British government's chief economic adviser during the First World War. , the title was held by his great-grandson, the fourth Baron, who succeeded his father in that year. Barons Bradbury (1925) * John Swanwick Bradbury, 1st Baron Bradbury (1872–1950) * John Bradbury, 2nd Baron Bradbury (1914–1994) * John Bradbury, 3rd Baron Bradbury (1940–2023) *John Timothy Bradbury, 4th Baron Bradbury (b. 1973) The heir presumptive An heir presumptive is the person entitled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of a person with a better claim to the position in question. This is in contrast to an heir app ... is the present holder's b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Bradbury
Daniel John Bradbury (born 26 July 1999) is an English professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. He claimed his first win as a professional in his third European Tour start at the 2022 Joburg Open. Amateur career Bradbury attended Lincoln Memorial University from 2017 to 2021, where he was the 2020 and 2021 South Atlantic Conference Men's Athlete of the Year. He played his final collegiate season at Florida State University in 2022. Professional career Bradbury turned professional in July 2022 and made his first start at the Cazoo Classic, played at Hillside Golf Club in Southport. He missed the cut. In November 2022, in his third start on the European Tour and playing on a sponsor's invite, Bradbury won the Joburg Open, an event also co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour. He shot a final score of 263 (21 under par) to win by three shots ahead of Sami Välimäki. The win also gained him an exemption into the 2023 Open Championship. Amateur wins *2018 Tennessee River Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradbury, County Durham
Bradbury is a village in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England. It is situated between Sedgefield and Newton Aycliffe, close to the A1(M) and A689, and is approximately from Middlesbrough. Bradbury is a small agricultural village. The moorland around it is of glacial origin. It is part of the civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ... of Bradbury and the Isle, along with the hamlets of Great Isle and Little Isle. 'The Isles' is an area in the parish located by the River Skerne. Historically, the river has been prone to flooding here; when flooded a number of small islands of land remain above the floodwaters. These include Great Isle and Little Isle, on which stand Great Isle farm and the hamlet of Little Isle, respectively ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradbury, California
Bradbury is a city in the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is located in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains below Angeles National Forest. Bradbury is bordered by the city of Monrovia to the west and south, and Duarte to the south and east. The population was 921 at the 2020 census, down from 1,048 at the 2010 census. The city has three distinct areas—the Bradbury Estates, which is a gated community consisting of minimum estates; Woodlyn Lane, which is also a gated community with minimum lots; and the balance of the city, which is not gated, which has lots generally ranging in size from to . A significant portion of the properties in Bradbury Estates and Woodlyn Lane are zoned for horses, and several horse ranches still exist within these communities today. History Bradbury was founded by Lewis L. Bradbury on the homestead of Rancho Azusa de Duarte in 1881. In 1912, the Bradburys' daughter, Minerva, married Isaac P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradbury Township, Minnesota
Bradbury Township is a township in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 268. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.05%, is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 203 people, 70 households, and 52 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 99 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the township was 97.54% White, 0.99% Asian, and 1.48% from two or more races. There were 70 households, out of which 38.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.7% were married couples living together, 4.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.7% were non-families. 18.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.90 and the average family size was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradbury, New South Wales
Bradbury is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Bradbury is located 54 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Campbelltown and is part of the Macarthur region. The suburb features many areas of greenery with native trees characterising most streets. Many streets are home to a range of native trees. Most of the street names in the suburb are after types of trees such as Bottlebrush Avenue, Jacaranda Avenue, Stringybark Place and Ash Place. History Bradbury was previously known as Sherwood Hills and is one of the more established suburbs of Campbelltown, with large-scale residential development beginning in the 1960s, planned by George Clarke and developed by Lend Lease. It is one of the earliest suburbs to underground powerlines, provide sewer and design streets to slow car speeds. The suburb was named after William Bradbury, a local innkeeper in the 1820s and 1830s. The area surro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradbury Science Museum
The Bradbury Science Museum is the chief public facility of Los Alamos National Laboratory, located at 1350 Central Avenue in Los Alamos, New Mexico, in the United States. It was founded in 1953, and was named for the Laboratory's second director (1945–1970), Norris E. Bradbury. Among the museum's early exhibits, artifacts and documents from World War II Manhattan Project were displayed upon Classified information, declassification. Other exhibits include full-size models of the Little Boy and Fat Man atomic bombs. Admission is free. Early years Robert Krohn, who oversaw early nuclear testing at what was then known as Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, thought the facility required a museum to house historical relics related to weapons research in 1953. Krohn convinced Norris Bradbury (Laboratory director, 1945–1970) a museum could preserve the Laboratory's history and provide a place for official visitors to learn about the Laboratory's weapon programs. An old ice house on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justice Bradbury (other)
Justice Bradbury may refer to: * Joseph Perry Bradbury Joseph Perry Bradbury (November 21, 1838 – July 17, 1915) was a Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake E ... (1838–1915), associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court * Theophilus Bradbury (1739–1803), associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court {{disambiguation, tndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
