Brainerd
Americannoun
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Ayers graduated in 1939 from the Brainerd Institute high school, established in 1866 for the children of freed slaves in her hometown.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
“These behaviors that look kind of silly are generating these really useful water flows,” says Elizabeth Brainerd, a functional morphologist at Brown University who was not involved with the work.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 9, 2023
“Something had to happen with the evolution of their lung ventilation system in order for them to become these elongated, small-headed animals that eat big meals,” Dr. Brainerd said.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022
Similar sites have already been set up at nursing homes in Brainerd and Shakopee to create additional transitional care beds, which are in short supply.
From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2021
Brainerd has an opera house, and is well supplied with churches, the Catholics, Presbyterians, Baptists, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, and Methodists having organizations and buildings.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
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