Carrie Brown (other)
Carrie Brown may refer to: * Carrie Brown (murder victim) (1834–1891), murdered New York prostitute, once suggested as a murder victim of Jack the Ripper * Carrie Brown (author) (born 1959), American novelist and professor * Carrie Budoff Brown, American journalist and news editor * Carrie Brown, sports correspondent on Al Jazeera English * "Carrie Brown", song from The Mountain (Steve Earle album), ''The Mountain'' (Steve Earle album) See also

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Carrie Brown (murder Victim)
Carrie Brown (c. 1834 – April 24, 1891) was a New York City prostitute who was murdered and mutilated in a lodging house. She is occasionally mentioned as an alleged victim of Jack the Ripper. Although known to use numerous aliases, a common practice in her occupation, she supposedly won her nickname of Shakespeare for her habit of quoting William Shakespeare during drinking games. She has often been referred to as Old Shakespeare in later news articles and books and contemporaneous newspapers. The murder The badly mutilated body of Brown, a longtime Bowery prostitute, was found in a room in a squalid lodging house known as the East River Hotel on April 24, 1891. Newspapers were quick to report the murder as proof of the alleged arrival in America of Jack the Ripper, whose Whitechapel murders, murders of prostitutes in London's Whitechapel district were well known during the time. News of the possibility that Jack the Ripper had arrived in New York City posed a challenge to NYP ...
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Carrie Brown (author)
Carrie Brown (born May 29, 1959) is an American novelist. She is the author of seven novels and a collection of short stories. She is a writer-in-residence at Sweet Briar College in Amherst County, Virginia. Her most recent novel, ''The Stargazer's Sister'', was published by Pantheon Books in January 2016. Background and education A Greenwich, Connecticut native, Brown graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1975. Brown received her Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in 1981 and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow, in 1998. She has taught at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and became an English professor at Sweet Briar College after serving as Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence. She lives with her husband, the novelist John Gregory Brown, in Sweet Briar, Virginia. Work *''Rose's Garden'' ( Algonquin 1998), Brown's first novel, won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. ''The New York T ...
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Carrie Budoff Brown
Carrie Budoff Brown is an American journalist and news editor. She is currently the Senior Vice President of Meet the Press on NBC News. She is the former editor of ''Politico''. Previously, she served as the managing editor of ''Politico Europe'' and as a White House correspondent at ''Politico''. Before joining ''Politico'', she worked as a reporter at ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' and ''The Hartford Courant''. Biography Brown grew up in York, Pennsylvania. While attending Central York High School, she interned at the ''York Daily Record''. Brown later attended Rutgers University and graduated in 1998. She interned at ''The New York Times'' for one and a half years. She received the 2012 Merriman Smith Memorial Award for Excellence in Presidential Coverage under pressure. In November 2016, she was named editor of ''Politico'' after several co-founders left to start a rival, ''Axios.'' In her new role, Budoff Brown oversaw investigations and stories that helped the publicati ...
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Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English (AJE; , ) is a 24-hour English-language News broadcasting, news channel operating under Al Jazeera Media Network, which is funded by the government of Qatar. Al Jazeera introduced an English-language division in 2006. It is the first global English-language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East. Al Jazeera is known for its in-depth and frontline reporting particularly in conflict zones such as the Arab Spring, the Gaza–Israel conflict and others. Al Jazeera's coverage of the Arab Spring won the network numerous awards, including the Peabody Award. It positions itself as an alternative media platform to the dominance of Western media outlets like CNN and BBC, focusing on narrative reporting where subjects present their own stories. History The channel was launched on 15 November 2006. The channel was initially slated to be named Al Jazeera International, but the name was changed nine months before the launch. This decision was influenced by o ...
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The Mountain (Steve Earle Album)
''The Mountain'' is the eighth studio album by Steve Earle, backed by the Del McCoury Band, and released in 1999 (see 1999 in music). The album was a significant departure from Earle's previous work, being the first wholly bluegrass album he had written. Earle made the album as a tribute to the founder of bluegrass music, Bill Monroe, who had died in 1996. The album was nominated for a 2000 Grammy Award in the "Best Bluegrass Album" category (Earle's seventh Grammy nomination). Two tracks from the album were released as singles in the United Kingdom, UK: "Dixieland" (distributed to radio only) and "The Mountain" (a commercial release). Emmylou Harris performed the song "Pilgrim" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on July 10, 2017. A cover of the song ''The Graveyard Shift'' is featured on Wanda Jackson's 2012 album ''Unfinished Business (Wanda Jackson album), Unfinished Business''. Track listing All tracks composed by Steve Earle # "Texas Eagle" # "Yours Forever Blue" # ...
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Kerry Brown (other)
Kerry Brown may refer to: * Kerry Brown (American football) (born 1985), American football guard *Kerry Brown (wrestler) (1958–2009), Canadian professional wrestler * Kerry Brown (musician) (born 1963), American drummer for the band Catherine and producer of The Smashing Pumpkins *Kerry Brown (historian) (born 1967), British academic, director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London See also *Carrie Brown (other) Carrie Brown may refer to: * Carrie Brown (murder victim) (1834–1891), murdered New York prostitute, once suggested as a murder victim of Jack the Ripper * Carrie Brown (author) (born 1959), American novelist and professor * Carrie Budoff Brown, ...

Caroline Brown (other)
Caroline Brown may refer to: * Caroline Brown (bowls) (born 1980), Scottish bowler * Caroline Brown (cellist) (1953–2018), English cellist *Caroline Brown, pseudonym of American author Caroline Virginia Krout (1852–1931) See also * Carolyn Brown (other) *Carrie Brown (other) Carrie Brown may refer to: * Carrie Brown (murder victim) (1834–1891), murdered New York prostitute, once suggested as a murder victim of Jack the Ripper * Carrie Brown (author) (born 1959), American novelist and professor * Carrie Budoff Brown, ...