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Bronte, TX -- U.S. town in Texas
Population (2000): 1076
Housing Units (2000): 502
Land area (2000): 1.438579 sq. miles (3.725902 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.438579 sq. miles (3.725902 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10528
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.887046 N, 100.294947 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76933
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Brontë (Mercurian crater)

Brontë is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 60 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. Bronte is named for English writers Charlotte Brontë, who lived from 1816 to 1855, Emily Brontë, who lived from 1818 to 1848, and Anne Brontë, who lived from 1820 to 1849, and English writer and artist Branwell Brontë, who lived from 1817 to 1848.

Brontë (play)

Brontë was a 2005 play by British playwright Polly Teale about the lives of the Brontë sisters, their brother Branwell and their father Patrick. It also featured characters from the sisters' novels such as Cathy and Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights.

The play was staged at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, in 2005 and again in 2011. In 2010 there was a production of Brontë at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, directed by Nancy Meckler.

Brontë (lunar crater)

Brontë is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in Taurus-Littrow valley. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt drove along the north rim of it in their rover, on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.

To the northeast of Brontë are Camelot and Horatio, as well as the landing site itself. To the north is Victory, to the northwest is Shorty, and to the west is Lara.

The crater was named by the astronauts after English novelist Charlotte Brontë.

Usage examples of "bronte".

The rather flawed climax of the book was a cause of considerable bitterness within Bronte circles.

My uncle and aunt - who even then seemed old -had taken me up to Haworth House, the old Bronte residence, for a visit.

I had been learning about William Thackeray at school, and since the Brontes were contemporaries of his it seemed a good opportunity to further my interest in these matters.

A page was turned every two days, allowing the more regular and fanatical Bronte followers to read the novel as originally drafted.

We try to make art perfect because we never manage it in real life and here is Charlotte Bronte concluding her novel — presumably something which has a sense of autobiographical wishful thinking about it — in a manner that reflects her own disappointed love life.

Within two hours every LiteraTec department was besieged by calls from worried Bronte readers.

Within four hours the president of the Bronte Federation had seen the Prime Minister.

A member of the Bronte Federation had been called in to examine the text as it wrote itself across the last two hundred pages, which up until this moment had been blank.

The Bronte scholar knew the book by heart and his pleased expression gave them no cause for complaint.

The Welsh Politburo, alerted to the wrongdoings on their doorstep, had given Victor, Finisterre and a member of the Bronte Federation a safe conduct to the mouldering Penderyn Hotel, where they now stood with Bowden, Mycroft and an increasingly nervous Jack Schitt.

The representative of the Bronte Federation was reading the •words as they appeared on the yellowed manuscript in front of him.

The Bronte Federation expert, a small, usually unexcitable man named Plink, was suddenly ignited by shock.

I met with the Bronte Federation and they soon got used to the idea of the new ending, especially when they realised that they were the only people who objected.