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Bridgestone – Shojiro Ishibashi; the name comes from a calque translation and transposition of "ishibashi," meaning "stone bridge" Briggs & Stratton – Stephen Foster Briggs and Harold M. Stratton; Britek Motorsport – Jason Bright; Brooke Bond – Arthur Brooke; Brooks Locomotive Works – founded by Horatio G. Brooks
Unlike the names in the list above, these names are still widely known by the public as brand names, and are not used by competitors. Scholars disagree as to whether the use of a recognized trademark name for similar products can truly be called "generic", or if it is instead a form of synecdoche .
The company takes its name from "Nemyriv vodka", the first mention of which dates back to 1752. [9] In 1872, Count Grigory Stroganov opened a distillery in Nemyriv, and his daughter, Princess Maria Shcherbatova, continued the business. She hired the Czech architect Jiří Stibral, who designed many buildings in the city, including a new furnace.
Grigori Rasputin (Hellboy), a comic book character; Grigori Daratrazanoff, a main Carpathian character in Christine Feehan's Dark series; Grigori, the name of the titular dragon in the computer game Dragon's Dogma; Grigori Panteleevich Melekhov, in And Quiet Flows the Don; Octopus Grigori, an aggressive octopus in Gravity's Rainbow
Grigor is a masculine given name and a surname. Variants include Gregory , Gregor , Grigori , Grigory , and in Western Armenian as Krikor or Kirkor . People with the given name
Sixteen popes and two antipopes have used the name Gregorius, starting with Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great). It is tied with Benedict as the second-most popular name for popes, after John . Although the name was uncommon in the early 20th century, after the popularity of the actor Gregory Peck it became one of the ten most common male names ...
Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company is an American brewery based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was once the largest producer of beer in the United States.Its namesake beer, Schlitz (/ ˈ ʃ l ɪ t s /), was known as "The beer that made Milwaukee famous" and was advertised with the slogan "When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer". [1]
Cool Beer Brewing was founded in 1997 by Bobby Crecouzos. [1] The brewery started off in Brampton, Ontario, as just a small microbrewery serving one type of beer.After the brewery introduced its hemp based brand of beer in 2003, it outgrew its Brampton location, and in 2005, moved to Etobicoke to help maintain growth and meet demand.