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Brent Hinkley
Brent may refer to: *Brent (name), an English given and surname Place name ;In the United States *Brent, Alabama *Brent, Florida * Brent, Georgia * Brent, Missouri, a ghost town * Brent, Oklahoma ;In the United Kingdom * Brent, Cornwall * Brent Knoll, a hill in Somerset, England *Brent Knoll (village), a village at the foot of the hill * East Brent, another village at the foot of the hill *London Borough of Brent, England ** Brent (electoral division), Greater London Council *South Brent, Devon, England ;Elsewhere * Brent, Ontario, a village in Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada * Brent crater, a meteor crater named after the village of Brent, Ontario *Brent oilfield, North Sea In fiction * Brent (''Planet of the Apes'') * Corey Brent, fictional character on the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' * David Brent, fictional character on the BBC television comedy ''The Office'' * Stefan Brent, fictional character on the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' * Brent Scopes, fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent (name)
Brent is an Old English given name and surname. The place name can be from Celtic languages, Celtic words meaning "holy one" (if it refers to the River Brent), or "high place", literally, "from a steep hill" (if it refers to the villages in Somerset and Devon). The surname often indicates that one's ancestors lived in a place called Brent. Brent has also become a regularly used given name in some countries, being among the thousand most common names for boys born in the United States since 1933. When used as a given name today, Brent is sometimes a short form of Brenton, but this was probably not the original inspiration for Brent's use as a given name, since Brenton's own regular use as a first name came many years after Brent was established in that role. Notable people Surname * The Heathertones, Bix Brent (1923–1972), American singer * Charles Brent (1862–1929), Canadian-born missionary bishop of the Philippines and Episcopal Church saint * Dannielle Brent (born 1979), Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corey Brent
''Coronation Street'' is a British soap opera first broadcast on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters introduced in 2019, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by series producer Iain MacLeod. The first character to be introduced is Natalie Watkins ( Cassie Bradley), an acquaintance of Nick Tilsley ( Ben Price), in January, followed by the birth of Bertie Osbourne, the son of Daniel Osbourne ( Rob Mallard) and Sinead Tinker ( Katie McGlynn) and Andrea Abruzzi (Luca Malacrino) a hairdresser who applies for a job at Trim Up North. Jan Lozinski (Piotr Baumann), a builder working for Gary Windass ( Mikey North), first appears in March, followed by Alina Pop ( Ruxandra Porojnicu), a love interest for Seb Franklin (Harry Visinoni), in April. The Bailey family – consisting of brothers James Bailey (Nathan Graham) and Michael Bailey (Ryan Russell), their father Ed Bailey (Trevor Michael Georges) and mother Aggie Bailey ( Lorna Laidla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Spar
Brent Spar, known as Brent "E", was a North Sea oil storage and tanker loading buoy in the Brent oilfield, operated by Shell UK. With the completion of a pipeline connection to the oil terminal at Sullom Voe in Shetland, the storage facility had continued in use, but by 1991, was considered to be of no further value. Brent Spar became an issue of public concern in 1995, when the British government announced its support for Shell's application for its disposal in deep Atlantic waters at North Feni Ridge (approximately from the west coast of Scotland, at a depth of around ). Greenpeace organized a worldwide, high-profile media campaign against this plan occupying Brent Spar for more than three weeks. In the face of public and political opposition in northern Europe (including a widespread boycott of Shell service stations, some physical attacks and an arson attack on a service station in Germany), Shell abandoned its plans to dispose of Brent Spar at sea — whils ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Sidings
Brent sidings was an important marshalling yard and freight facility on the Midland Railway extension to London. History The sidings were situated on both sides of the Midland Main Line between and stations, close to the triangle formed where the Dudding Hill Line left the main line. When the line from the midlands was quadrupled, the two eastern tracks were used by goods trains; to enable these to reach Brent sidings, a flyover was provided at Silkstream Junction, north of . Coal traffic Coal trains, each consisting of up to 85 wagons, were despatched from the marshalling yards at Toton (between Nottingham and Derby Derby ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area on the River Derwent, Derbyshire, River Derwent in Derbyshire, England. Derbyshire is named after Derby, which was its original co ...), and received at Brent sidings. Here, they were split up and forwarded to the Midland Railway's own coal depot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Railway Station
Brent railway station was a stop on the South Devon Railway Company, South Devon Railway; it served the village of South Brent on the southern edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England. History The line through Brent opened on 5 May 1848, but the station was not ready to open until 15 June 1848. The South Devon Railway was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway on 1 February 1876. On 19 December 1893, the station became a junction with the opening of the Kingsbridge branch line. The station closed in 1964. References Citations Sources * ''The Great Western in South Devon'' by Keith Beck and John Copsey, Wild Swan Publications 1990, * ''An Illustrated History of Plymouth's Railways'' by Martin Smith, Irwell Press 1995, * ''The South Devon Railway'' by R H Gregory, Oakwood Press1982, * Disused railway stations in Devon Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964 Former Great Western Railway stations Beeching c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent's Method
In numerical analysis, Brent's method is a hybrid root-finding algorithm combining the bisection method, the secant method and inverse quadratic interpolation. It has the reliability of bisection but it can be as quick as some of the less-reliable methods. The algorithm tries to use the potentially fast-converging secant method or inverse quadratic interpolation if possible, but it falls back to the more robust bisection method if necessary. Brent's method is due to Richard Brent and builds on an earlier algorithm by Theodorus Dekker. Consequently, the method is also known as the Brent–Dekker method. Modern improvements on Brent's method include Chandrupatla's method, which is simpler and faster for functions that are flat around their roots; Ridders' method, which performs exponential interpolations instead of quadratic providing a simpler closed formula for the iterations; and the ITP method which is a hybrid between regula-falsi and bisection that achieves optimal worst- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent International School
Brent International School (abbreviation: Brent School or Brent Manila) is an international co-educational, day school associated with the Episcopal Church in the Philippines. It has campuses in different locations throughout the Philippines: Brent School Manila in Brgy. Mamplasan, Biñan, Laguna; Brent School Baguio; and Brent School Subic. Campus Manila In 1984, the Board of Trustees of Brent School established Brent International School Manila in Pasig, Metro Manila (that location has since closed). This second Brent school assumed the traditions, the style, and the educational system of its mother school, and its first twelve students graduated in 1986. Brent School Manila is now the Main Campus, located in Biñan, and the member school of Asia Pacific Activities Conference. The campus contains two learning center buildings; one for the upper school, middle school and lower school students and the other for students below third grade. The school also has two fields for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Goose
The brant or brent goose (''Branta bernicla'') is a small goose of the genus ''Branta''. There are three subspecies, all of which winter along temperate-zone sea-coasts and breed on the high-Arctic tundra. The Brent oilfield was named after the species. Taxonomy The brant was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his ''Systema Naturae'' under the binomial name ''Anas bernicla''. Linnaeus specified the type locality as Europe but in 1761 restricted it to Sweden. The brant is now one of six species placed in the genus ''Branta'' that was introduced in 1769 by the Austrian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli. The genus name ''Branta'' is a Latinised form of Old Norse ''brandgás'', "burnt (black) goose". The specific epithet ''bernicla'' is Medieval Latin for barnacle. The brant and the similar barnacle goose were previously considered to be the same species and believed to be the same creature as the barnacle. That myth c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Crude
Brent Crude may refer to any or all of the components of the Brent Complex, a physically and financially traded oil market based around the North Sea of Northwest Europe; colloquially, Brent Crude usually refers to the price of the ICE (Intercontinental Exchange) Brent Crude Oil futures contract or the contract itself. The original Brent Crude referred to a trading classification of sweet light crude oil first extracted from the Brent oilfield in the North Sea in 1976. As production from the Brent oilfield declined to zero in 2021, crude oil blends from other oil fields have been added to the trade classification. The current Brent blend consists of crude oil produced from the Forties (added 2002), Oseberg (added 2002), Ekofisk (added 2007), Troll (added 2018) oil fields (also known as the BFOET Quotation) and oil drilled from Midland, Texas in the Permian Basin (added 2023). The Brent Crude oil marker is also known as Brent Blend, London Brent and Brent petroleum. This gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Cross Shopping Centre
Brent Cross Shopping Centre is a large shopping centre in Hendon, North London, owned by Hammerson and Abrdn. Located by the Brent Cross interchange, it opened in 1976 as the UK's first Out-of-town shopping centres in the United Kingdom, out-of-town shopping centre. Brent Cross attracted 15–16 million shoppers a year as of 2011 and has one of the largest incomes per unit area of retail space in the country. History Brent Cross Shopping Centre was developed by Hammerson and opened by the then Prince of Wales, now King Charles III of the United Kingdom, Charles III, on 2 March 1976. The road adjacent to the shopping centre bears the name Prince Charles Drive to this day. It was the first out-of-town and American-style indoor shopping centre in the country, with its construction taking 19 years to complete at a cost of £20 million. While the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre in London predates it, that was not considered to be a fully covered building. The scheme was strongly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Cross Tube Station
Brent Cross is a London Underground station located on Highfield Avenue in the Golders Green area of north west London. It is a Grade II listed building. The station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern line, between Hendon Central and Golders Green stations. The Brent Cross shopping centre is equidistant between this station and Hendon Central. It is in Travelcard Zone 3. History The station was designed by architect Stanley Heaps and opened as Brent, the name of the nearby river, on 19 November 1923. It was the first station of the extension of what was then known as the Hampstead & Highgate Line, which was built through undeveloped rural areas to Edgware. The extension had first been planned prior to the First World War when the station had been due to be called "Woodstock". It was renamed from Brent to its current name on the 2 March 1976 opening of the shopping centre. Two passing loops were built at the station, not long after it opened, to allow fast trains t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (film)
''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'' is a 2009 American animated science fiction comedy film written and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, loosely based on the 1978 children's book by Judi and Ron Barrett. It stars the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Bruce Campbell, Mr. T, Benjamin Bratt, and Neil Patrick Harris. Produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, and released by Sony Pictures Releasing, the film centers around an aspiring inventor named Flint Lockwood who develops, following a series of failed experiments, a machine that can convert water into food. After the machine gains sentience and begins to develop food storms, Flint must stop it in order to save the world. ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'' premiered at the Mann Village Theater in Los Angeles, California on September 12, 2009, and was released in the United States six days later on September 18 of that same year. It was a box office success, grossin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
