Brooks
Encyclopedia
Places
Canada- Brooks, AlbertaBrooks, AlbertaBrooks is a city in southeast Alberta, Canada surrounded by the County of Newell. It is located on Highway 1 and the Canadian Pacific Railway, approximately southeast of Calgary, and northwest of Medicine Hat. The city has an elevation of .- History :The area that is now Brooks was originally...
United States
- Brooks, ArkansasBrooks, ArkansasBrooks is a small unincorporated community near Bauxite and Bryant in Saline County, Arkansas, United States. It consists of a church called Brooks Bethel Church....
- Brooks, CaliforniaBrooks, CaliforniaBrooks is an unincorporated community in Yolo County, California located in the Capay Valley in the northwest of the county. Brooks' ZIP Code is 95606 and its area code 530. Brooks is home to a large casino Cache Creek Casino Resort. It lies at an elevation of 341 feet .A post office was opened...
- Brooks, GeorgiaBrooks, GeorgiaBrooks is a town in Fayette County, Georgia, USA. The population was 553 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, Brooks has a total area of , of which, of it is land and 0.25% is water.-Demographics:...
- Brooks, KentuckyBrooks, KentuckyBrooks is a census-designated place in Bullitt County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,678 at the 2000 census. Brooks was struck by a tornado in 1996.-Geography:Brooks is located at ....
- Brooks, MaineBrooks, MaineBrooks is a town in Waldo County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,022 at the 2000 census.The town was named after John Brooks, the Federalist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1815-1816, when the town incorporated. The town of Dexter, which incorporated the same year, was named...
- Brooks, MinnesotaBrooks, MinnesotaBrooks is a city in Red Lake County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 141 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.U.S...
- Brooks, OregonBrooks, OregonBrooks is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Oregon, United States. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Brooks as a census-designated place . The census definition of the area may not precisely correspond to local understanding of the area with the same...
- Brooks Township, MichiganBrooks Township, MichiganBrooks Township is a civil township of Newaygo County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 3,671.-Geography:...
- Brooks City-BaseBrooks City-BaseBrooks City-Base was a United States Air Force facility located in San Antonio, Texas, southeast of Downtown San Antonio.In 2002 Brooks Air Force Base was renamed Brooks City-Base when the property was conveyed to the Brooks Development Authority as part of a unique project between local, state,...
, former United States Air Force base near San Antonio, Texas - Brooks, WisconsinBrooks, WisconsinBrooks is an unincorporated community located, in the town of New Chester, Adams County, Wisconsin, United States. Brooks is northwest of Oxford....
United States and Canada
- The Brooks RangeBrooks RangeThe Brooks Range is a mountain range in far northern North America. It stretches from west to east across northern Alaska and into Canada's Yukon Territory, a total distance of about 1100 km . The mountains top out at over 2,700 m . The range is believed to be approximately 126 million years old...
, mountain range in Alaska and Yukon
Antarctica
- Cape BrooksCape BrooksCape Brooks is a cape marked by steep, conspicuous walls which rise to , forming the south side of the entrance to New Bedford Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land...
Given name
- Brooks AtkinsonBrooks AtkinsonJustin Brooks Atkinson was an American theatre critic. He worked for The New York Times from 1925 to 1960...
, American theater critic - Brooks NewmarkBrooks NewmarkBrooks Phillip Victor Newmark is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Braintree.-Early life:Brooks was born in Westport CT, USA on 8th May 1958 to Howard Newmark and Gilda Gourlay . He moved to England aged 9 years old and attended Caldicott Prep School and Bedford School and graduated from...
, British member of parliament - Brooks OrpikBrooks OrpikBrooks Orpik is an American professional ice hockey defenseman, an alternate captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League . His brother, Andrew, was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres organization and is also currently in the Pittsburgh Penguins organization...
, American hockey player - Brooks RobinsonBrooks RobinsonBrooks Calbert Robinson, Jr. is a former American professional baseball player. He played his entire 23-year major league career for the Baltimore Orioles . Nicknamed "The Human Vacuum Cleaner", he is generally acclaimed as the greatest defensive third-basemen in major league history...
, American baseball player
Companies
- Brooks Locomotive WorksBrooks Locomotive WorksThe Brooks Locomotive Works manufactured steam railroad locomotives and freight cars from 1869 through its merger into the American Locomotive Company until 1934.-History:...
, an early manufacturer of steam locomotives for the US railroads - Brooks BrothersBrooks BrothersBrooks Brothers is the oldest men's clothier chain in the United States. Founded in 1818 as a family business, the privately owned company is now owned by Retail Brand Alliance, also features clothing for women, and is headquartered on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, New York City.-History:On April 7,...
, American men's clothier - Brooks EnglandBrooks EnglandBrooks England is a bicycle saddle manufacturer in Smethwick, Birmingham, England. It has been making leather bicycle saddles since 1866, when it was founded in Hockley, Birmingham....
, traditional English bicycle saddle manufacturer - Brooks PharmacyBrooks PharmacyBrooks Pharmacy was a chain of more than 330 pharmacies located throughout New England and New York and has been a well-recognized name in the New England pharmacy industry for several decades. The corporate headquarters were located in Warwick, Rhode Island...
, former pharmacy chain - Brooks Sports, American athletic shoe manufacturer
Education
- Brooks CollegeBrooks CollegeBrooks College was a system of two for-profit colleges in Long Beach and Sunnyvale, California. They offered career college programs in a variety of areas. The school in Long Beach was best known for its fashion design and fashion marketing programs...
, a system of for-profit colleges in California - Brooks Institute, a for-profit college in California focusing on visual arts
- Brooks SchoolBrooks SchoolBrooks School is a private, co-educational, preparatory, secondary school in North Andover, Massachusetts on the shores of Lake Cochichewick.-History:...
, North Andover, Massachusetts, United States - Brooks High School (disambiguation)
Other uses
- Brooks (group)Brooks (group)Brooks was a London-based pop vocal group formed in the late 1970s. The group is noteworthy since two of its members went on to have successful musical careers, independently of each other: Mike Nolan, of Bucks Fizz, and Chris Hamill, a.k.a. Limahl, of Kajagoogoo.The group was put together in 1976...
, 1970s UK vocal group - Brooks (mango)Brooks (mango)The Brooks' mango is a late-season commercial mango cultivar that originated in south Florida. It is a parent of several varieties from the state.- History :...
, a late-season mango cultivar originated in Miami, Florida. - Nickname for the Brooklyn Dodgers, former Major League Baseball team, now the Los Angeles Dodgers
See also
- StreamStreamA stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill , kill, lick, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run or...
- Brooksville (disambiguation)
- Comet Brooks (disambiguation)
- Mr. BrooksMr. BrooksMr. Brooks is a 2007 thriller film directed by Bruce A. Evans starring Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, and William Hurt. It was released on June 1, 2007...
, film