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# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Brennan, Louis

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​Brennan, Louis, C.B., the inventor of the torpedo which bears his name, is the son of Thomas Brennan by his marriage with Miss Bridget MacDonel, and was born in Ireland on Jan. 28th, 1852. He went to Melbourne with his parents when eleven ​years of age. A few years later he was articled to Mr. Alexander Kennedy Smith, the well-known civil and mechanical engineer, and quickly displayed great aptitude in his profession. Mr. Brennan may be said to have first conceived the idea of his now celebrated torpedo in May 1874, but the initiatory stages of perfecting the invention, proving it by trials, and bringing it into notice in the right quarters occupied several years, Mr. Brennan being ultimately aided by a grant of £700 from the Victorian Government. With a view to securing its adoption by the imperial authorities, Mr. Brennan formed a small company to exploit the invention, and himself went to England towards the end of 1880. The torpedo, through the kindly interposition of Sir Andrew Clarke, was favourably considered by the War Office, but it was not finally adopted by the British Government till 1887, when, after years of anxious thought and laborious experiment, Mr. Brennan brought the apparatus to its present perfection, and it was purchased by the Imperial Government for £110,000, Mr. Brennan being employed by the Government to superintend the manufacture and to aid in its practical utilisation for a period of five years. On the expiry of this engagement it was again renewed, in March 1892; and on May 25th following Mr. Brennan was gazetted to the distinction of C.B. He married in Dublin on Sept. 10th, 1891, his cousin, Miss Anna Quinn. An excellent description of the torpedo will be found in the recent issue of the "Encyclopædia Britannica."
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Bright, Hon. Henry Edward

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​Bright, Hon. Henry Edward, M.L.C., son of Edward Bright and Mary Ann his wife, was born in London on June 30th, 1819, and arrived in Adelaide in April 1850. He was member for Stanley in the Legislative Assembly of South Australia from 1866 to 1874, and for Wooroora from 1875 to 1885. From July 1873 to June 1875 he was Commissioner of Public Works in the Government of the Hon. (now Sir) Arthur Blyth, and in May 1885 was elected to the Legislative Council, of which he is still a member. Mr. Bright married, at St. George's, Hanover Square, London, W., on March 15th, 1841, Miss Jane Prudence King, with whom he recently celebrated his golden wedding.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Bramston, John

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​Bramston, John, C.B., B.A., D.C.L., Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, second son of the late T. W. Bramston, M.P. of Skreens, Essex, was born on Nov. 14th, 1832, and educated at Winchester, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1854, becoming Fellow of All Souls' in the same university in the following year, and D.C.L. in 1863. He entered at the Middle Temple in Nov. 1854, and was called to the bar in June 1857. He went to Queensland in 1859 as private secretary to Sir George Bowen, the first governor, and held that post for two years, when he resigned. From 1863 to 1866 he sat in the Legislative Council, and was a member without portfolio of the first Ministry formed by his friend Mr. (now Sir) Robert Herbert from July 1863 to Feb. 1866, acting temporarily as Attorney-General from August to Sept. 1865. Subsequently he returned to England, and remained for two years, acting in 1867 as Assistant Boundary Commissioner for Devon and Cornwall under the Reform Act of that year. Returning to Queensland in 1868, he represented Burnett in the Legislative Assembly from April 1871 to Dec. 1873, and was Attorney-General in the Palmer Ministry from May 1870 to Jan. 1874, when he resigned to accept the same office in Hong Kong, where he also acted as judge. In June 1876 Mr. Bramston was appointed to his present post as Assistant Under Secretary of State in the Colonial Office, being employed on a mission to Berlin in connection with the Angra Pequena negotiations in July 1886, in which year he was created C.B. Mr. Bramston married, on Dec. 12th, 1872, Eliza Isabella, daughter of the late Rev. Harry Vane Russell. He was appointed Registrar of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1892.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Brett, Henry

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​Brett, Henry, J.P., an enterprising newspaper proprietor and publisher in New Zealand, who has issued a large number of standard works on colonial subjects, was born in the south of England, and brought up to the printing trade in ​the office of his uncle, the proprietor of the Hastings and St. Leonards Gazette. He left for New Zealand with the Non-conformist special settlers in 1862, intending to settle upon the land, but on arrival at Auckland the vessel was boarded by a representative of the Daily Southern Cross in search of compositors, and Mr. Brett was persuaded to accept an engagement on that paper. Shortly afterwards he joined the reporting staff of the New Zealand Herald and maintained his connection with that journal till 1870, when for the sum of £90 he acquired a third interest in the Evening Star, which had been recently started by Mr. G. M. Reid, and was then in a struggling condition. By the infusion of additional energy, and the employment of carrier pigeons to supply the want of telegraphs in those days—this being one of the most successful innovations in journalism introduced by Mr. Brett—the Star forged ahead and extinguished its evening rival. In Feb. 1876, Mr. Reid disposed of his interest to Mr. Brett, the share of the third partner having previously been acquired by the firm, Mr. Brett thus becoming sole proprietor. He has since disposed of a partnership interest to Mr. T. W. Leys, who succeeded Mr. Reid in the editorship of the paper, which is commonly reported to have the largest circulation in New Zealand. The second publishing venture of the firm was the Auckland Almanack and Provincial Handbook, started in 1872; and they have also established the New Zealand Farmer and Bee and Poultry Journal, a monthly agricultural magazine, and more recently the New Zealand Graphic, Mr. Brett, who is a director of the New Zealand Press Association and President of the Auckland Choral Society, occupied a seat in the Auckland City Council from 1874 to 1878, and in the latter year, without a contest, was chosen Mayor.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Bride, Thomas Francis

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​Bride, Thomas Francis, LL.D., was born at Cork, Ireland, in 1851, and went to Victoria at three years of age. He graduated at Melbourne University in 1873. In the same year he was appointed Assistant Librarian of the University, and later Assistant Registrar, both of which positions he held until August 1881, when he was appointed Librarian of the Melbourne Public Library. In 1879 Dr. Bride took the degree of Doctor of Laws, being the third who achieved that distinction at the Melbourne University. In Feb. 1880 he unsuccessfully contested North Melbourne in the Conservative interest.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Brierly, Sir Oswald Walters

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​Brierly, Sir Oswald Walters, R.W.S., F.R.G.S., marine painter to the Queen since 1874, is the son of the late Thomas Brierly, and was born at Chester in 1817. He was on board H.M.S. Rattlesnake during her surveys of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, the Louisiade Archipelago, and part of New Guinea. He visited New Zealand, Tongatabu, Tahiti, and many other places in the Meander; and has cruised in different parts of the world for eleven years on board various of her Majesty's ships, an island of the Louisiade and a point in Australia being named after him. Sir Oswald Brierly—as he became in 1885—was during the Russian war present at the operations with the fleet in the Baltic, Black Sea, and Sea of Azoff; he was also by command on board the royal yacht at the great naval review at the close of the Russian war to make sketches for the Queen. In 1867 he went with H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh in his voyage round the world in the Galatea, and his sketches of the cruise were exhibited at South Kensington. In 1868 he was attached to the suite of the Prince and Princess of Wales during their trip up the Nile. He has painted many important historical marine pictures, the principal of which have been engraved. He has been awarded the fourth class Medjidie, fourth class Osmanieh, and the Turkish war medal, and is an Officer of the Redeemer of Greece. He was formerly a J.P. for New South Wales, and is at present Curator of the Painted Hall, Greenwich.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Bright, Charles Edward

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​Bright, Charles Edward, C.M.G., J.P., belongs to an old Worcestershire family possessing estates in the counties of Worcester and Hereford, and is the fifth son of the late Robert Bright, of Bristol and Abbots Leigh, Somerset, by Caroline, daughter of Thomas Tyndall, of The Fort, Bristol. Mr. Bright is brother to Richard Bright, who was elected M.P. for East Somerset in 1868, and to Lieut.-General Sir Robert Onesiphorus Bright, K.C.B. He emigrated to Australia, arriving in Melbourne in Jan. 1854; and is a partner in the firms of Messrs. Antony Gibbs & Co. and Messrs. Gibbs, ​Bright & Co. He was twice Chairman of the Melbourne Harbour Trust, and for many years Trustee of the Public Library, Museum, and National Gallery of Victoria. He was Commissioner to the Exhibition of London, 1861-2; Dublin, 1864; Melbourne, 1866-7; London, 1873-4; Melbourne, 1880; Calcutta, 1883; Adelaide, 1887; and Melbourne, 1888. He married, on August 25th, 1868, the Hon. Anne Maria Georgiana Manners-Sutton, daughter of the third Viscount Canterbury (Governor of Victoria 1866-73), by Georgiana, youngest daughter of the late Charles Thompson, of Witchingham Hall, Norfolk; and was created C.M.G. on May 24th, 1883.
# The Fall of Usher

"Thou wert the Morning Star among the living,  Ere thy fair light had fled; But, having died, thou art like Hesperus giving  New splendor to the dead."
---Plato's Aster.
"Thou art gone to the grave!" but thy spirit is shining,  And singing afar in the Realms of the Blest ; While the living are left by thy cold grave reclining,  And mourning for thee while they long for thy rest---  Left mourning for thee while they long for thy rest!
"Thou art gone to the grave!" thou art gone where thy slumber  No more shall be broken by sorrow or pain--- Soon to rise with that host which no mortal can number,  To lie down no more in that Valley again!  No more to lie down in that Valley again!
"Thou art gone to the grave!" there is none can restore thee,  Or bring thee again from that Silent Abode ! But the Conqueror of Death went to dwell there before thee,  And He has prepared thee the way to thy God!  Prepared thee the way to thy Beautiful God !
"Thou art gone to the grave!" thou art silently sleeping  A sleep which no sorrow shall ever molest; And, in longing for which, my poor heart now is keeping  This silent lament in its grave in my breast!  Like Shelley for Keats, in its grave in my breast!
"Thou art gone to the grave!" let the dark Weeping Willow  Bend over thy grave where thy beauty was laid! While thy form, thus reclined on the earth for its pillow,  Shall live in the Spring-flowers which bloom at thy head---  To feed the young Butterflies born at thy head.
"Thou art gone to the grave!" where the Violets are springing,  And feeding upon thee above the damp sod, Now thy Pandemos mourns, while thy spirit is singing,  And drinking delight from the Fountains of God ---  With thine Ullalume lost from the Fountains of God.
# The Fall of the Alamo/Hymns

H Y M N S.
No. 1. HYMN OF TEXAN LIBERTY.
Finale of the First Act.
THE END
# The Fall of the House of Usher (film)

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A short silent experimental horror film inspired by the 1839 short story The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. Selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress.
Cast and Crew :
| Cast ||
| Role | Actor |
| | Hildegarde Lasell Watson |
| | Melville Webber |
| Crew ||
| Distributor | Netflix |
| Director | James Sibley Watson (d. 1982) |
| Screenwriter | Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1849) |
| Cinematographer | James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber (d. 1947) |
| Composer | Alec Wilder (d. 1980) |
| Based on available information, the latest crew member that is relevant to international copyright laws died in 1982, meaning that this film may be in the public domain in countries and jurisdictions with 41 years p.m.a. or less, as well as in the United States. ||
The Fall of the House of Usher
A Film Version of Poe's Story By MELVILLE WEBBER and J. S. WATSON JR.
THE ACTORS
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
Son cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu’on le touche il résonne.
De Béranger.
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
BEAT
CRACK
CRACKD
RIP DEAD SCREAM
SHRIEK
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
Copyright law abroad tends to consider the following people authors of a film:
* The principal director
* The screenwriter, and/or other writers of dialogue
* The composer/lyricist (if the film is accompanied by sound)
* The cinematographer
* By extension, the authors of any works that may serve as the basis for a film's plot
The longest-living of these authors died in 1982, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 41 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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# The Fall of the Alamo

THE FALL OF THE ALAMO
AN HISTORICAL DRAMA
IN FOUR ACTS
CONCLUDED BY AN EPILOGUE ENTITLED
THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO
BY PROFESSOR FRANCIS NONA
Sunt hic etiam sua præmia laudi. — Virgil's Æneid, I, 461.
NEW YORK G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 182 Fifth Avenue 1879.
Copyright by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1879.
TO COLONEL THOMAS W PEIRCE.
OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS,
this work is respectfully dedicated by
THE AUTHOR.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Dictator of Mexico, and Commander-in-Chief of the Mexican Army.
Don Martin Prefecto Cos,—his brother-in-law, and General in the Mexican Army.
Don Manuel Fernandez Castrillon,—General in the Mexican Army.
Don Francesco Duque,—Colonel in Mexican service.
Juan N. Almonte,—Colonel and Aide-de-Camp to Santa Anna.
John Davis Bradburn,—A native of Tennessee, who, having entered the Mexican service, commanded the Fort of Anahuac in the year 1832.
Elsie Bradburn,—his Daughter.
William B. Travis,—A resident of Anahuac in the year 1832, and Commander of the Texan Volunteers at the Alamo in the year 1836.
James A. Travis,—his brother, seventeen years old.
Colonel David Crockett,—Hunter, Scout, Congressman, and Champion for Texan liberty.
Colonel James Bowie, Major Evans, Captain Kimble, Lieutenant Dickinson,—Commanders of Texan Volunteers under Wm. B. Travis.
Colonel J. B. Bonham,—Colonel of Texan Volunteers.
Rev. W. P. Smith,—Chaplain of the Texan Volunteers at the Alamo.
Samuel Houston,—Commander-in-Chief of the Texan Army at the San Jacinto.
Edward Burleson,—Colonel in the Texan Army.
Frank W, Johnston,—Colonel of Texan Volunteers.
John W. Smith,—called Deaf Smith, scout to General Houston.
John Austin, Wm. J. Russell. Wm. H. Jack,—Natives of the United States, residing in Texas in the year 1832. ​Don Lorenzo Zavala—Texan Patriot.
S. B. Patcho,—Captain in Mexican service, stationed at Anahuac.
Jose Prado,—Servant to Santa Anna.
A Surgeon.—A Jailer.—American Colonists, residing in Texas.—Texan Volunteers.—Mexican Soldiers.
SCENE.
First Act: Partly at Velasco, partly at Anahuac, in the year 1832.
Second, Third and Fourth Acts: In and around the Alamo, in February and March, 1836.
Epilogue: At the San Jacinto River, April 21, 1836.
# The Fall of the House of Usher

* "The Fall of the House of Usher", in Tales (1846), by Edgar Allan Poe
* "The Fall of the House of Usher", in The Garden of Romance (1897)
* "The Fall of the House of Usher", in Southern Life in Southern Literature: Selections of Representative Prose and Poetry (1917), selected and edited by Maurice Garland Fulton
* "The Fall of the House of Usher", illustrated by Arthur Rackham, in Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1935)

## Film adaptations

* The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), a film directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Brandenburg (city)

Edition of 1920. See also Brandenburg an der Havel on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
BRANDENBURG, Germany, Prussian city in the administrative district of Potsdam and province of Brandenburg, on the Havel, 35 miles west of Berlin, formerly the residence of the reigning family of Prussia. The Havel here expands into a lake and divides Brandenburg into the Old Town, the New Town and the Cathedral Island, the last containing a castle and the cathedral. The latter is a late Romanesque building (1170-1318), restored in the 19th century. The industries embrace woolen yarn, silk goods, baskets, leather, hosiery, paper, beer, linen, etc., and the building of boats is also carried on. Pop. about 55,000. It became the seat of a bishopric in 949. From 27 Nov. to 5 Dec. 1848, Brandenburg was the seat of the National Assembly of Prussia.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Brandeis, Frederick

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BRANDEIS, brăn'dīs, Frederick, American organist: b. Vienna, Austria, 1835; d. New York 1899. At Vienna he studied under Fischof, Czerny and Rufinatscha. He toured America in 1849 as a member of the Wallace Opera Company. In 1851 he settled in New York, and between 1865-98 filled positions as organist at the Catholic churches of Saint John the Evangelist and Saint James, and the 44th Street Synagogue and the church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Brooklyn. He wrote a prelude to ‘Maria Stuart’; ‘The Sunken Cloister’; a suite for string orchestra, and numerous other pieces, instrumental and vocal. He is best remembered for his song, ‘My Love is Like the Red, Red Rose.’
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Brandenburg (province)

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BRANDENBURG, Germany, a province of Prussia, surrounded mainly by Mecklenburg and the provinces of Pomerania, Posen, Silesia and Prussian Saxony. The soil consists in many parts of barren sands, heaths and moors, yet the province produces much grain, as well as fruits, hemp, flax, tobacco, etc., and supports many sheep. The forests are extensive. The principal streams are the Elbe, the Oder, the Havel and the Spree. There are between 600 and 700 lakes, and some of them are connected by canals with the great rivers. Brandenburg carries on an active trade in manufactured articles, containing extensive silk, woolen, linen and cotton cloth and yarn mills, also establishments for dyeing, spinning and printing of textiles, machine shops, cigar and cigarette factories, glass and chemical works. Beer and liquors are produced in large quantities. It includes, besides some other districts, the greater part of the former Mark of Brandenburg, which formed the cradle of the Prussian monarchy and the centre round which the present extensive kingdom has grown up. It is divided into the three administrative divisions of Berlin, Potsdam and Frankfort, and has a total of 15,381 square miles. The most of the inhabitants are Lutherans;
the rest are chiefly Roman Catholics and Jews. From 1685 to 1688 many French refugees, Walloons and inhabitants of Lorraine and of the Palatinate settled in the Mark. At present Brandenburg is the most important of the Prussian provinces, including as it does the capital (Berlin), and the governments of Potsdam and Frankfort. The first people who are known to have inhabited Brandenburg were the Suevi. They were succeeded by the Slavonians, a barbarous people, whom Henry I conquered and converted to Christianity in the early part of the 10th century. The government was first conferred on a Saxon count, and did not become hereditary until the time of Albert, whose son succeeded to the dignity of elector in 1180. This race becoming extinct, Charles IV assigned the electorate to his son Sigismund, who became emperor in 1415, and sold the region to Frederick, Burgrave of Nuremberg, the ancestor of the present reigning family. Frederick William the Great made various accessions to the territory of his ancestors, and obliged the King of Poland, in 1656, to declare Prussia an independent state. The Old Mark was ceded to Napoleon in 1807, and formed part of the kingdom of Westphalia, but it was restored to Prussia in 1814. The Elector of Brandenburg held the seventh rank among the electors of the empire and had five votes in the Council of Princes. Pop. about 4,000,000. See Prussia.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Brandt, Heinrich von

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BRANDT, Heinrich von, Prussian general and military author: b. Lakin, West Prussia, 1789; d. 1868. He studied law in Berlin, but joined the army in 1807; fought in the Spanish and Russian campaigns, and was wounded and captured by the Russians at the battle of Leipzig. He was made a member of the general staff of the Prussian army, took part in the Polish revolts of 1831 and 1848, and with the rank of general of infantry retired from the army in 1857. He had been elected a member of the Prussian Upper Chamber in 1849 and of the Erfurt Parliament in 1850. His fame is perpetuated by his books, chief of which are ‘Geschichte des Kriegswesens’ (Berlin 1830-35); ‘Grundzüge der Taktik der drei Waffen’ (1883); ‘Der kleine Krieg’ (2d ed, 1850). Consult his biography by his son, ‘Aus dem Leben des General Brandt’ (2 vols., Berlin 1882).