Braidwood
Encyclopedia
Places
- Braidwood, New South WalesBraidwood, New South WalesBraidwood is a town in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in Palerang Shire. It is located on the busy Kings Highway linking Canberra to Batemans Bay on the coast. It is about 200 kilometres south west of Sydney and about 60 kilometres inland from the coast...
, Australia - Braidwood, South LanarkshireBraidwood, South LanarkshireBraidwood is a small village near Carluke, in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The medieval barony of Braidwood included the Tower of Hallbar.Braidwood House, former seat of Lord Clydesmuir, is one of the major local landmarks...
, Scotland - Braidwood, IllinoisBraidwood, IllinoiseBraidwood is a city in Will County, Illinois, United States, approximately southwest of Chicago and south of Joliet. The population was 5,203 at the 2000 census....
, United States of America
People
- Thomas BraidwoodThomas BraidwoodThomas Braidwood was born at Hillhead Farm, Covington, Lanarkshire, Scotland, the fourth child of Thomas Braidwood and Agnes Meek. Braidwood originally established himself as a writing master instructing the children of the wealthy at his private building based in Canongate in Edinburgh...
(1715–1806), founder of a school for the deaf in Scotland - Thomas Braidwood WilsonThomas Braidwood WilsonThomas Braidwood Wilson FRGS was an Australian surgeon and explorer. He was born in Uphall, West Lothian, Scotland, the son of James, and Catherine Boak.-Sea Voyages:...
(1792-1843), an Australian surgeon and explorer
Things
- Braidwood InquiryBraidwood InquiryThe Braidwood Inquiry was a public inquiry conducted in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, examining the safety of Tasers and the death of Robert Dziekanski. The two-stage inquiry is being conducted by retired Court of Appeal of British Columbia and Court of Appeal of the Yukon Territory Justice...
- an ongoing inquiry into the Robert Dziekański Taser incidentRobert Dziekanski Taser incidentRobert Dziekański was a Polish immigrant to Canada who died on October 14, 2007, after being tasered five times by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Vancouver International Airport....
in Vancouver, Canada - Braidwood Nuclear Generating StationBraidwood Nuclear Generating StationBraidwood Generating Station is located in Will County in northeastern Illinois, USA. The nuclear power plant serves Chicago and northern Illinois with electricity. The plant was originally built by Commonwealth Edison company, and subsequently transferred to Com Ed's parent company, Exelon...
, Illinois, United States of America - Braidwood - An abandoned Intel project to incorporate NAND memory onto computer motherboards, successor to Intel Turbo Memory