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Brit
Brit most commonly refers to: * Briton, a British person Brit, Brits or BRIT may also refer to: People Nicknames * Brit Hume (born 1943), American TV journalist * Brit Selby (born 1945), Canadian ice-hockey player * Brit Smith (born 1985), American actress, model, singer, and songwriter Given names * Brit Andresen, Norwegian-born Australian architect * Brit Bildøen (born 1962), Norwegian poet, novelist, essayist, children's writer and literary critic * Brit Hoel (born 1942), Norwegian politician * Brit Marling (born 1982), American writer, producer, director and actress * Brit McRoberts (born 1957), Canadian retired middle-distance runner * Brit Morgan (born 1987), American film and television actress * Brit Pettersen (born 1961), Norwegian former cross-country skier * Brit Sandaune (born 1972), Norwegian soccer player and pre-school teacher * Brit Solli (born 1959), Norwegian archaeologist * Brit Stakston (born 1961), Swedish-Norwegian writer, public speaker and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brit Plc
Brit is an international general insurance and reinsurance group specialising in commercial insurance. It was acquired by Fairfax Financial in May 2015. History The Company was founded as ''Benfield & Rea Investment Trust'' in 1995. In 1996 it acquired ''Stewart Syndicates Limited'' and in 1999 it went on to buy ''Wren PLC''. In 1999 it ceased to be an investment trust and relisted as ''Brit Insurance Holdings PLC''. Achilles Netherlands Holdings B.V., a company formed by funds managed by private equity firms Apollo Management and CVC Capital Partners, agreed to acquire the firm for £888 million in October 2010. Its offer was declared unconditional in March 2011 and following this Brit Insurance was removed from the FTSE 250 Index. On 18 June 2012 Brit announced the sale of its subsidiary Brit Insurance Limited (BIL) to RiverStone Group. The company was subject to an initial public offering An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brit Smith
Brittany Smith (born December 3, 1985), formerly known as Matisse, is an American singer. She gained prominence from a young age as one half of a modeling duo with her identical twin sister Alex, appearing in various commercials. They later went on to pursue a music career and form the pop duo Brit & Alex, who were active from 2002 until their 2009 disbandment. As a solo artist, Smith released her debut single "Better Than Her" in 2010, which topped the US Dance Airplay charts. She later signed with Interscope Records to release her 2013 single, "Provocative (hiDhi)" (featuring will.i.am). Due to the song underperforming, Smith decided to leave the music industry. Following the release of JoJo Siwa's single "Karma" in April 2024, a version of the song recorded by Smith titled " Karma's a Bitch" went viral across social media platforms; she subsequently announced plans to return to the music industry. Career Smith began appearing on TV at six months of age on ''One Life to Liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brit + Co
Brit + Co is a website and lifestyle brand targeted at women. The company was founded by Brit Morin in 2011. History Brit + Co was founded in late 2011 by Brit Morin, who was CEO. In January 2018, the company hired Jill Braff, a former general manager of Ellen Digital Ventures, as its new president. Jeff Jones, former Target CMO and Uber President, joined the company as an advisor in 2017. In April 2019 it was announced that the company was laying off most of its staff as part of a reorganization. The company had exhausted all the capital it had raised, and as a result had to be restructured in bankruptcy. In June 2020, Brit + Co launched women's business acceleratoSelfmadeto support wome Funding & acquisitions By 2017, it was reported that Brit + Co had received $45 million in venture capital funding from investors like Verizon Ventures and Marissa Mayer. The company raised $1.25 million in initial seed funding in April 2012. The following year, it closed funding rounds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brit Bildøen
Brit Bildøen (born 28 January 1962) is a Norwegian poet, novelist, essayist, children's writer and literary critic. Her awards include the Nynorsk Literature Prize, the Melsom Prize, the Amalie Skram Prize, and the Dobloug Prize. Background Born in Ålesund on 28 January 1962, Bildøen grew up in Aukra. A librarian by education, she worked at the public library in Kvinnherad until 1989. She has also studied sociology, and attended the in Hordaland in 1991. Literary career She made her literary debut in 1991 with the poetry collection ''Bilde av menn''. In her first novel, ''Eit anna eple'' (English: ''Another Apple'') from 1992, the protagonist Eva sees her world collapsing, and not only the world but also her face, her body, her language and the time, dissolves. Bildøen's next poetry collection, , was published in 1994. In 1994 she also issued the picture book . Her second novel, (1995), consisting of 134 short chapters, deals with the protagonist Anna who experiences a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brit Volden
Brit Volden (born 4 April 1960) is a Norwegian orienteering competitor. Her achievements include two individual silver medals, and one gold and one silver medal in the relay at the World Orienteering Championships. She also won the unofficial Orienteering World Cup, World Cup in 1983 and placed second overall in 1984 and 1988. Winning two Nordic titles and five individual national titles, she was awarded the Kongepokal, King's Cup trophy two times. Orienteering career Volden won a gold medal in the relay at the 1987 World Orienteering Championships,World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 (Retrieved on 9 December 2007) along with Ragnhild Bratberg, Ragnhild Bente Andersen and Ellen Sofie Olsvik. She also won a silver medal for Norway in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brit Stakston
Brit Stakston (born 21 December 1961) is a Swedish-Norwegian writer, public speaker and media strategist, who is the executive director of Blank Spot Project, a magazine on foreign issues she founded with Martin Schibbye. Biography Brit Stakston was born in Graz, Austria. In 2014, she founded Stakston PR, a public relations agency. The year after, in 2015, she founded the Blank Spot Project, a magazine focusing on foreign issues, together with Martin Schibbye. In 2009 and 2010, she was named as one of the most prominent names in media of the week during the Almedalen Week. In 2010 and 2011, she was named one of the 50 most prominent women working with IT in Sweden. In 2015, she was nominated for the Stora Journalistpriset Stora Journalistpriset ("The Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism") is an annual Swedish award, founded in 1966 by Bonnier AB, given to "recognize achievement in journalism". The prize money is SEK 100,000 and is awarded in four categories: * Sc ... toge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briton
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.: British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Ancient Britons, the Celtic languages, Celtic-speaking inhabitants of Great Britain during the British Iron Age, Iron Age, whose descendants formed the major part of the modern Welsh people, Cornish people, Bretons and considerable proportions of English people. It also refers to those British subjects born in parts of the former British Empire that are now independent countries who settled in the United Kingdom prior to 1973. Though early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Brit
Walter Brit (alternatively Brit, Brytte, or Brithus) (fl. 1390), was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and the reputed author of several works on astronomy and mathematics, as well as a treatise on surgery. He has also been described as a follower of John Wycliffe, and as author of a book, ''De auferendis clero possessionibus''. Lollard identification issue In the 17th century, Anthony Wood identified Brit with Walter Brut, a layman of the diocese of Hereford, whose trial before Bishop Thomas Trevenant of Hereford in 1391 is related by John Foxe. Current scholarship regards the matter as still open, however. Foxe prints the articles of heresy with which Brut was charged, the speech in which he defended himself, and his ultimate submission of his opinions to the determination of the church. Thirty-seven articles were then drawn up and sent to the University of Cambridge to be confuted. Brut, however, appears to have escaped further molestation. Attribution of scientific wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Brits
Stefan Brits (born 19 January 1992) is a South African track and field athlete who competes in the long jump. Brits represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He holds a personal best of , set in 2016. Career Born in Cape Town, he attended Paul Roos Gymnasium.Stefan Brits Seminoles. Retrieved on 2016-08-19. Brits competed in the long jump from a young age and was twice a participant at both the World Youth Championships in Athletics (2007, 2009) and the World Junior Championships in Athletics (2008, 2010). He was a sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tazmin Brits
Tazmin Brits (born 8 January 1991) is a South African athlete and cricketer. She won gold in the javelin throw at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics. She was in line to be selected for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, before being involved in a road accident, which left her hospitalised for two months. She made her international debut for the South Africa women's cricket team in May 2018. Career In April 2018, she was named in South Africa women's cricket squad for the Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) series against Bangladesh. Prior to the tour, she captained the South Africa Emerging Players Women's squad against Australia. She made her WT20I debut for South Africa against Bangladesh Women on 19 May 2018. In February 2019, Cricket South Africa named her as one of the players in the Powerade Women's National Academy intake for 2019. In September 2019, she was named in the F van der Merwe XI squad for the inaugural edition of the Women's T20 Super Lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britstown
Britstown is a small farming town situated in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, in the Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, Emthanjeni Local Municipality. The town is named after Hans Brits who settled here after he accompanied David Livingstone on a venture into the interior. Britstown lies in the heart of the Central Karoo and is located exactly halfway between Cape Town (via Three Sisters) and Johannesburg (via Kimberley) on the N12 national route, and thus is about 700 km from both cities. The N10 national route crosses the N12 500m outside the town. De Aar is the closest big town and lies 50 km East from Britstown on the N10. History In 1877 a community centre and a church was built on a section of Brits's farm. A private irrigation scheme was started by the Smartt Syndicate in 1885 and liquidated in 1954. The concern built two dams, planted lucerne and wheat. They grazed karakul sheep and Clydesdale horses. In 1961, floods destroyed the Smartt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brits, North West
Brits () is a town in the North West Province (South Africa), North West Province of South Africa. It is situated in a fertile citrus, vegetable and grain-producing area that is irrigated by the waters of the Hartbeespoort Dam. It is close to the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, which includes Pretoria, and it has the same dialling code as Pretoria. In addition to being a centre for agriculture, the city is home to several heavy industries. A factory of the Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo produced cars for the domestic market and export to Asia from 1974 to 1985. The city also plays an important role in the Mining industry of South Africa, South African mining industry: 94% of South Africa's platinum comes from the Rustenburg and Brits districts, which together produce more platinum than any other single area in the world. In addition, there is a large vanadium mine in the district. Mothotlung, Letlhabile, Maboloka, Bapong, Majakaneng, Tornado, Bethanie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
