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    Brookings Institution. Brookings was born in Cecil County, Maryland, near Baltimore, where he grew up, to Richard and Mary Eliza (Carter) Brookings....
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    The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily...
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    founding of Brookings as a company town, it was his cousin, Robert S. Brookings, who was responsible for its actual design. The latter Brookings hired Bernard...
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  • Brookings is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Robert S. Brookings (1850–1932), American businessman and philanthropist Wilmot Brookings...
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    University Hall, the building was renamed Brookings Hall on June 12, 1928, in honor of board president Robert S. Brookings. There are numerous inscriptions on...
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    Brookings is a city in and the county seat of Brookings County, South Dakota, United States. Brookings is South Dakota's fourth most populous city, with...
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    blot upon our civilization." The Brookings Institution was founded shortly thereafter in 1916 by Robert S. Brookings and was conceived as a bipartisan...
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    Berry Susan Blow Christine Brewer Lou Brock Robert S. Brookings Jack Buck Grace Bumbry T Bone Burnett William S. Burroughs Harry Caray Cedric the Entertainer...
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  • architecture firm Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot of Boston. A committee of Robert S. Brookings, Henry Ware Eliot, and William Huse found a site of 103 acres (41...
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  • geophysicist, focusing in seismology and geophysics, currently the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Wiens...
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