"it happens so rarely. He was one in a million, and showed us there is that possibility in a game of impossibilities."" Seattle Slew was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1981. In the BloodHorse magazine's listing of the top 100 American thoroughbreds of the twentieth century, he was ranked ninth. A British publication, ""A Century of Champions"", ranked him fourth among North American racehorses. In 2002, ESPN telecast a ""SportsCentury"" on Seattle Slew. The book ""Seattle Slew"", by Steve Cady and Barton Silverman, was released by Penguin Books in 1977. In 2000, the"
"Luke Brown Carl Dennis Campbell Sr. (July 28, 1935 – November 12, 1997) was an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Luke ""Big Boy"" Brown. He is most noted for being one-half of a tag team in the 1950s and 1960s known as the Kentuckians, along with Grizzly Smith. Brown began his professional wrestling career in 1958, traveling with carnivals. Wrestler Frankie Townsend gave him the name ""Man Mountain Campbell"", which Brown used up until 1961. For a short period during this time he tagged with Stan Stasiak, and they were the first tag team to ever"
"breaking the record previously held by Chicago rapper Rebel XD. Brown rapped 723 syllables in 51.27 seconds on his track ""No Clue"" at B&G Studios, Seattle, on January 15, 2005. More recently, local indie rapper/DJ duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis have achieved worldwide fame with ""The Heist"" (2012), scoring two #1 Hot 100 hits with ""Thrift Shop"" and ""Can't Hold Us"" in 2013. Music of Washington (state) The U.S. state of Washington has been home to many popular musicians and several major hotbeds of musical innovation throughout its history. The largest city in the state, Seattle, is best known for"
"hold the NWA International Tag Team Championship (Toronto version). They defeated Ivan and Karol Kalmikoff on June 8, 1961 in a tournament to win this title. In 1961, Brown also began teaming with Grizzly Smith. The duo became known as The Kentuckians, and they were known for their long beards, dungarees, and cow horn. Brown, as Man Mountain Campbell, had his first main event match on April 12, 1960 against Hans Schmidt in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His first match in Madison Square Gardens took place November 13, 1960 in a tag team match with Haystacks Calhoun against The Kangaroos. He retired"
"in 1990, and ""How This Forward Got Written"" in ""The New American Splendor Anthology"" in 1991. He inked Seth's pencils for the story ""Them Changes"" in Dennis Eichhorn's ""Real Stuff"" #6 in 1992, and shared artwork duties with Sook-Yin Lee on the story ""The Not So Great Escape"" in ""Real Stuff"" #16 in 1993. He also inked Steve Bissette's pencils for the story ""It Came From ... Higher Space!"" in Alan Moore's ""1963"" #3 in 1993. A jam piece with Dave Sim was included in the ""Cerebus World Tour Book"" in 1995. Over the years, Brown has received four Harvey"
"involved in a racially-charged angle with Robert Fuller and the Stud Stable, wherein Fuller gave Brown a watermelon as a gift, and beat him with a leather strap. Because of the co-promoting with the American Wrestling Association and World Class Championship Wrestling, he also had a chance to wrestle in the AWA and WCCW. After SuperClash III, the AWA pulled out, and the CWA-WCCW cross-promotion continued, as Jerry Jarrett bought Fritz Von Erich's majority stake in WCCW. In February 1989, Brown won the WCCW Texas Heavyweight Championship, defeating Iceman King Parsons. He was champion for over a month, before losing"
"villainous tactics. In 1994, Brown was honored by the Cauliflower Alley Club along with other female inductees Candi Devine, Sherri Martel, Kitty Adams, and Susan Green. In 2013 Brown was inducted into the New England Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame. On February 27, 1998, Brown beat number-one contender Brandi Alexander and retained her NWA New Jersey Championship title at the ""Third Annual Eddie Gilbert Memorial Brawl"" at the Airport Radisson Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Fabulous Moolah was in Brown's corner while Fred The Elephant Boy from ""The Howard Stern Show"" was at ringside with Alexander. She and a former"
"in Peru and educated in Chile and Cambridge University he was a big-hearted, self-confident red-headed all-rounder usually seen wearing a white silk handkerchief round his neck, with a big grin and an avuncular pipe. Over six feet tall and weighing 15 stone (over 200lbs or 100 kilos) he loved to attack the bowling. Captured with Bill Bowes at Tobruk in 1942 Brown spent most of the Second World War in prisoner-of-war camps in Italy and Germany, where they organised games of cricket, baseball and rugby and lost over 60lbs (30 kilos) before being liberated by the Americans. A leg-spinner for"
"""A Brief History of Time"" at the Leaky Cauldron. For the 2005-06 season, Brown was the shirt sponsor of London Commercial Division football team Chiswick Homefields, the players wearing an 'IB – The Greatest' logo on their chests. Brown is a lifelong supporter of Manchester United and is a season ticket holder. At the 2006 ""NME"" awards, Brown was presented with the ""Godlike Genius"" award and in 2007 was given the ""Q"" ""Legend"" Award. In September 2007, Brown released his fifth studio album, ""The World is Yours"". The album represented a more political approach in his music, particularly the anti-war"
"from professional wrestling in 1976 after a shoulder injury. Brown was married three times. He was in poor health during his last years of life, including kidney failure that required him to under dialysis. He died of a stroke in a Washington, D.C. hospital in 1997. He was buried in Elkton, Maryland. Luke Brown Carl Dennis Campbell Sr. (July 28, 1935 – November 12, 1997) was an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Luke ""Big Boy"" Brown. He is most noted for being one-half of a tag team in the 1950s and 1960s known as the Kentuckians,"
"Chester Brown Chester William David Brown (born 16 May 1960) is a Canadian cartoonist. Brown has gone through several stylistic and thematic periods. He gained notice in alternative comics circles in the 1980s for the surreal, scatological ""Ed the Happy Clown"" serial. After bringing ""Ed"" to an abrupt end, he delved into confessional autobiographical comics in the early 1990s and was strongly associated with fellow Toronto-based cartoonists Seth and Joe Matt, and the contemporary autobiographical comics trend. Two graphic novels came from this period: ""The Playboy"" (1992) and ""I Never Liked You"" (1994). Surprise mainstream success in the 2000s came"
"Laced team—called ""Messengers"" on the brand's website—consists of Brown, Smolik, and professional skateboarders Sean Sheffey and Damian Bravo, while the company is based in San Diego, California, US ""Transworld Skateboarding"" magazine named Brown the ""Vert Skater of the Year"" for its 2005 awards ceremony. For the LG Action Sports contest series, Brown won the ""half-pipe"" ramp comp in Beijing, China in 2004 and placed 2nd in Paris, France in 2005. Brown has won five medals in the X-Games competitions, two of which are gold medals. He attained medals in the Big Air event every year from 2006 to 2010. Brown"
"In 1982 Leroy Brown became involved in a storyline feud with then NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair. The storyline started with an arm wrestling challenge laid out by Flair. Brown won the challenge, leading to Flair demand a rematch that Brown also won. During a third arm wrestling challenge Brown was attacked by Big John Studd, beating Brown up prior to a Brown wrestling Flair for the championship at the Omni Coliseum, Georgia Championship Wrestling's venue for major shows. Despite the attack Brown would go on to win the match, but the victory was by disqualification as Flair intentionally"
"to grab attention from cartoonists and comics fans, alike. Established as a sensitive chronicler of bittersweet young-adult romance and nonsensical superhero parody, Brown's current direction remains split between autobiographical material, examining the minutae of everyday life, whatever humorous fiction he feels in the mood for, and a wide range of fiction subjects in his series ""Sulk"". Brown has also created two series of books set in the ""Star Wars"" expanded universe (under the ""Legends"" & ""Infinities"" brands). In 2012, Brown told ""USA Today"" about how Mark Alan Stamaty's picture book ""Small in the Saddle"" had influenced his own career and"
"Washboard Sam Robert Clifford Brown (July 15, 1910 – November 6, 1966), known professionally as Washboard Sam, was an American blues musician and singer. Brown's date and place of birth are uncertain; many sources state that he was born in 1910 in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, but the researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc suggest that he was born in 1903 or 1904, in Jackson, Tennessee, on the basis of Social Security information. He was reputedly the half-brother of Big Bill Broonzy. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1920s, performing as a street musician with Sleepy John Estes and Hammie"
"wrestler was trying to break a bottle over Brown's head but had not prepared it properly and it took several hard blows to break the bottle. The following day several Japanese wrestlers would watch the tape of the match over and over again, laughing at Brown's misfortune and pain. Back in San Francisco Brown defeated Chavo Guerrero to win the WWA Americas Heavyweight Championship, holding it for 50 days before losing it to Al Madril. In late 1979 Brown returned to the eastern coast, competing for Championship Wrestling from Florida. Initially he became involved in a feud with then NWA"
"team wrestler in Stampede, teaming up with Duke Myers to win the Stampede Wrestling International Tag Team Championship for the first time on September 25, 1981. They won the championship for the second time on March 23, 1983, by defeating Leo Burke and David Schultz in a tournament final for the vacant championship. Four months later, in July 1982, Brown won the Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling (AGPW) United States Heavyweight Championship, his first singles championship in professional wrestling. Later that year, on December 8, he and Myers defeated Bret Hart and Leo Burke to win the Stampede Wrestling International Tag"
"skills in matches against former world heavyweight champions Jim Londos and Ed ""Strangler"" Lewis. He quickly won the Kansas Heavyweight Championship. Brown went on to become the Kansas-based Midwest Wrestling Association (MWA) World Heavyweight Champion for a record of 11 times from 1940 to 1948. Brown won the title by beating wrestlers such as Bobby Bruns, Lee Wyckoff, Tom Zaharias, Swedish Angel, Roy Graham and Tug Carlson. In 1948, promoter Pinkie George, along with other promoters, recognized Brown as the World Heavyweight Champion in the newly formed National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). Brown began the NWA's project of unifying the various"
"the Earl Warren Showgrounds in Santa Barbara. Soon after, having won numerous Battle of the Bands competitions, they were made the official house band for the venue. After signing a deal with Reprise Records in 1965, they enjoyed a hit, ""Meet Me At The Corner"" in the California Gold Coast locale of Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties. The Emperors carried out a performance schedule that took them all over the country. When bass man Randy Busby left, Denny and Kenny Fricia stepped in and the band changed their name to the Giant Crab. As each of the"
"causing his tour to be rescheduled. His bandmate Aziz Ibrahim condemned the sentence, saying that Brown was ""just being cheeky"". While in Strangeways Prison, Brown wrote the lyrics for ""Free My Way"", ""So Many Soldiers"", and ""Set My Baby Free"". He was released on parole after two months. His second album, ""Golden Greats"", was released by Polydor Records 1999. It featured more electronic instrumentation and earned critical acclaim. For his third studio album, ""Music of the Spheres"", Brown sought outside production help for the first time, hiring the services of songwriter and producer Dave McCracken who would go on to"
"Brown was selected as the face of MTV's ""TRL"" summer campaign. He has participated in an array of film, TV and commercial projects, including being a martial arts stuntman on the UPN television show, ""South Beach"". Since, Brown has starred in commercials for MTV, Nokia and Kentucky Fried Chicken, became the face of Sean Jean's ""Unforgivable"" cologne spray Viacom campaign and starred in ""My Games Fever"", a teo hour, commercial daytime TV gameshow on Fox affiliated My Network TV stations. Throughout his career he has starred in national and international campaign advertisements for ""Kentucky Fried Chicken"", ""KFC Wrap Star"", ""Nokia"","
"me a couple of years to mentally get back to where I wanted to be."" Way explained in the same article, ""Jake's fall was catastrophic. Those types of things put what we do into perspective. It's what we fear most. That's the reality of the risk."" As of September 2013, Brown is sponsored by Laced Clothing, SK8Mafia, Monster Energy, Paradox Grip Tape, Spitfire Wheels, and Independent Trucks. Brown officially founded the Laced clothing company in 2012 with Smolik, but the brand has appeared in public since 2010. Laced is described as ""a brand that lives by the wisdom that everyone"
"larger story too complex to handle at once. ""I Never Liked You"" was the last work of Brown's early autobiographical period. ""I Never Liked You"" was well received, and its influence can be found in the work of cartoonists such as Jeffrey Brown, Ariel Schrag and Anders Nilsen. The book appeared amid the early 1990s trend in autobiographical alternative comics, and Brown was one of a prominent trio of Toronto-based autobiographical cartoonists, with Seth and Joe Matt. Brown originally set the panels against black page backgrounds, which he replaced with white for an annotated ""New Definitive Edition"" in 2002. Brown"
"Poetry Slam individual championship in 1998. He began touring nationally with his poetry shortly thereafter. To date, Brown has performed at over 1800 venues and universities, including Glastonbury, La Sorbonne in Paris, CBGB's, The Nuyorican Poets Café in New York City, The Mission Creek Literary Festival and The Berlin International Literary Festival. Early in his career, Brown often toured solo. However, he became known for touring and collaborating with other artists. In October 2006, Brown teamed up with poet and actress Amber Tamblyn for several poetry performances in California called The Lazers of Sexcellance. In 2007, he toured Europe opening"
"appearing twice on ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" in 1966 (where The Flames were uncredited). The group also began to perform overseas and became a major attraction. About their success outside America, Famous Flame Bobby Bennett said, in a 2012 interview with the ""Cleveland Plain Dealer""; ""We were drawing crowds everywhere we went,"" says Bennett. ""Not just in America. We'd go to London or Paris and we couldn't even leave the hotel to go sightseeing because we were getting mobbed by people."" Brown's solo aspirations led to further dissension within the group, who felt they weren't being compensated properly. Lloyd Stallworth"
"ran as the party's candidate in the riding of Trinity—Spadina in Toronto in the 2008 and 2011 federal elections. During the long wait between ""Louis Riel"" and ""Paying for It"", Brown allowed Drawn and Quarterly to reprint ""Ed the Happy Clown"" as a serial comic book, with explanatory notes that were becoming both more common and more detailed in Brown's work. In 2007 Brown provided six weeks worth of strips to Toronto's ""NOW"" magazine as part of the ""Live With Culture"" ad campaign. The strip features a male zombie and a living human girl participating in various cultural activities, culminating"
"Slyck Wagner Brown in a Triple Threat match to win the heavyweight championship. Three months later, he also wrestled Larry Huntly in a losing bid to capture the vacant AWA North Atlantic Heavyweight Championship. On March 10, 2007, Beau Douglas defeated DellaGatta for the NWA New England Heavyweight title in Saugus, Massachusetts, ending his third reign as champion. Douglas had originally lost the title to Rumble six years earlier at the ""NWA 52nd Anniversary Show"" in Nashville, Tennessee. It was also announced at that event that the promotion would be withdrawing its membership with the National Wrestling Alliance and reverted"
"F. Brown, who looked down on the movement from his position in the TV department of the Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn advertising agency. ""Suzuki Beane"" (1961), by Sandra Scoppettone with Louise Fitzhugh illustrations, was a Bleecker Street beatnik spoof of Kay Thompson's ""Eloise"" series (1956–59). In the 1960s, the comic book Justice League of America's sidekick Snapper Carr was also portrayed as a stereotypical beatnik, down to his lingo and clothes. The DC Comics character Jonny Double is also portrayed as a beatnik. In San Francisco, Jerry and Estelle Cimino operate their Beat Museum, which began in 2003 in"
"single ""I Can't Wait"" from the """" film soundtrack), and on songs with collaborators such as Beyoncé and Big Boi (on the latter's US #1 and UK #7 hit ""The Way You Move""). Brown independently released his debut solo album, ""Sleepy's Theme – The Vinyl Room"" in 1998. He was slated to release an album on the DreamWorks Records label. called 'For the Grown and Sexy', but the release was scrapped when DreamWorks label folded. He is now signed to Big Boi's label Purple Ribbon Records and released his second album, ""Mr. Brown"" on October 3, 2006. Brown is the"
"and France. The project was also the subject of ACM publications including ""Accelerating the Scalable City"". Brown has given talks around the world, including TEDxDelMar Game Theorist Noah-Wardrip Fruin wrote of Brown's Scalable City project that it ""may not seem like gameplay at all"" and provides the player little structure or agency, but still creates a pleasurable experience of destruction. Sheldon Brown (artist) Sheldon Brown (born July 13, 1962) is an American artist and Professor of Computer Art at the University of California, San Diego where he holds the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair of Digital"
"Ken Brown (filmmaker) Ken Brown (born March 12, 1944, Dayton, Ohio) is an American filmmaker, photographer, cartoonist, and designer. He grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and currently lives in New York City. He has directed dozens of animations, experimental films and video documentaries over the last four decades. In 1967-69 Brown used Super 8mm to create psychedelic imagery for the light shows at the Boston Tea Party club. His animated films have been seen on AMC, MTV, VH1 and ""Sesame Street"". A 40-year retrospective of his work was shown January 2007 at the Anthology Film Archives,"
"Western swing in the early 1930s. For a while, he and his band, the Musical Brownies, were more popular than Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. Brown's career was cut short in 1936 when he died following a car accident, just as he was poised to break into national stardom. Born in Stephenville, Texas in 1903, Brown moved to Fort Worth, Texas in 1918. After graduating from Fort Worth's Arlington Heights High School in 1925, he worked as a cigar salesman, but he lost his job when the Great Depression hit in the late '20s. Brown began his musical career"
"Slyck Wagner Brown Wagner Brown (born September 5, 1979) is a Jamaican born professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, SWB or Slyck Wagner Brown. Brown currently wrestles on the Independent circuit in the Northeastern United States. Additionally, SWB was appointed head trainer at Killer Kowalski's school in Boston. Brown also had a longtime association with women's wrestler April Hunter. The duo held tag team titles together in Jersey All Pro Wrestling and Pro-Pain Pro Wrestling. Brown now runs his wrestling training school, Test of Strength, out of East Hartford, Connecticut and runs monthly shows, called TOS Training Days."