Dave brutus biography

Dennis Brutus

Dennis Brutus was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe) on 28 November in 1924.His parents moved to Port Elizabeth where he grew up,at the age of four he attended Paterson High School. He graduated from the University of Fort Hare with distinction in English in 1948.  His studies in law at the University of Witwatersrand were cut short by his imprisonment.His parents were teachers.Brutus did news reporting and was an organiser with the Teachers’ League and the Congress Movement. An ardent cricket and table tennis player in his youth, he was also a founder member of the South African Sports Association, an alternative to the White sports bodies of the time.  As Secretary of the South African Sports Association, he was instrumental in stopping a proposed tour by the West Indies cricket team led by Frank Worrell in 1958. In July 1961 he take part in the Malmesbury Convention,an attempt to forge unity among coloured political groupings and closer cooperation with africans.In 1950 he became a supporter of the Non- European Unity Movement (NEUM) a

OWEN, DAVID (Brutus; 1795 - 1866), editor and littérateur

Name: David Owen
Pseudonym: Brutus
Date of birth: 1795
Date of death: 1866
Spouse: Anne Owen (née Jones)
Parent: Rachel Owen
Parent: David Benjamin Owen
Gender: Male
Occupation: editor and littérateur
Area of activity: Education; Literature and Writing; Medicine; Printing and Publishing
Author: Thomas Jones

Born towards the end of 1795 (he was christened on 25 December 1795) in the parish of Llanpumpsaint, Carmarthenshire. His father, David Benjamin (Owen), was a shoemaker and a sexton, and his mother, Rachel (Owen), was a Baptist. He received a good education, including instruction in the classics. He intended becoming a physician and was apprenticed to John Thomas of Aberduar, near Llanybyther. During his apprenticeship he became a Baptist and decided to enter the ministry. He spent a year at the Baptist Academy at Bristol before settling at Aber, between Bangor and Llanfairfechan, as a schoolmaster and lay preacher. After three years he moved to Llyn to take charge of the chape

Super Fan: Big Nut and First Lady Nut

Apparently drawn to the spotlight, Jon began to assume his counter persona more seriously. At some point he became Big Nut and she, First Lady Nut. On a typical football game day, Jon and Terese rise early to begin the transformation. She paints, he dresses. Tennis shoes, knee high socks, knee length shorts, shirt with BIG NUT on the front and back, necklaces of chains and buckeyes, Ohio State logo gloves, sometimes BIG NUT glasses, bare head or various hats. His face doesn’t change, but his costumes do: flags for 9-11, pink hat for breast cancer awareness month, basketball hoop, helmet topped with fanatics doll, buckeye-leaved pate. 

The Peters drive from their Fremont home to Columbus in time to attend tailgate parties lining the parking lot outside of the ‘Shoe. For a Noon game, this means leaving Fremont at 6 am, visiting tail gates at 8 am, and in their seats right after the gates open at 10 am. His cardinal rule is to be in his seat two hours before kick-off. Now that they have season tickets, security personnel are used to the line of

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