Wilson Brown
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Wilson Brown (1841 – January 24, 1900) was a Union Navy sailor during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor.Brown was born in 1841 at Natchez, Mississippi, and enlisted in the Navy from along the Mississippi River in his home state. He was assigned as a landsman to the USSÂ Hartford, the flagship of Rear Admiral David Farragut's West Gulf Blockading Squadron.On August 5, 1864, during the Battle of Mobile Bay, Admiral Farragut led a squadron of eighteen Union ships, including the Hartford, into the Confederate-held Mobile Bay. As the squadron came under fire from Fort Morgan, Fort Gaines, and Confederate ships, Brown and five other sailors worked on the Hartford's berth deck loading and operating the shell whip, a device which lifted boxes of gunpowder up to the gun deck.
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Brown Printing Expands Mobile Solutions through the Acquisition of Nellymoser
Waseca, MN, March 11, 2013 – Brown Printing Company today announced the acquisition of Nellymoser, a Boston-based mobile marketing and technology company. Nellymoser is a mobile innovator and a pioneer in rich media delivery, having. . .
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'Potty Cameron should never have hired Coulson'
Kelvin MacKenzie in today's Evening Standard: "Cameron had clearly gone quite potty. And the final proof that he was certifiable was his hiring of my friend Andy Coulson.
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Phone hacking: the case for the defence | Damien McCrystal
Celebrities encourage intrusion, and we have a right to know about anything that affects politicians' ability to do their jobs.
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Nick Brown claims phone bugged
Ex-Labour chief whip says landline tapped a few years ago and mobile phone may have been illegally accessed more recently.
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Motorola: Split Will Happen In January 2011
We’ve known for some time that Motorola (NYSE: MOT) will formally divide into two businesses, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions, in the first quarter of 2011. Now Greg Brown, who will be the CEO the of Solutions unit, has spelled it out a bit more: the split will happen in January next year.
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Industry Moves: Unsocial; Upstream; Glu Mobile
—Unsocial: Bruce Brown is now CEO of both Apptango and Unsocial and Tom Mooreland is now EVP. Brown, who had been serving as an advisor to the social app creator, was previously chairman and CEO of both Vertel and Efficient Networks. Mooreland was VP of worldwide sales and support at Strix Systems.
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