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Brainard, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 351
Housing Units (2000): 162
Land area (2000): 0.280334 sq. miles (0.726061 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.280334 sq. miles (0.726061 sq. km)
FIPS code: 06120
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.183725 N, 97.002832 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68626
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Brainard

Brainard may refer to:

Brainard (surname)

Brainard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Asa Brainard (1841–1888), American baseball pitcher
  • Bertha Brainard (1890–1946), American broadcast executive
  • Byron B. Brainard (1894–1940), Los Angeles City Council member
  • Brainard Cheney (1900–1990), American novelist
  • Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (born 1947), Filipino American writer
  • Charles L. Brainard (1903–1988), American presidential library commissioner
  • Daniel Brainard (1812–1866), American surgeon
  • David Legge Brainard (1856–1949), American Arctic explorer and soldier
  • Ingrid Brainard (1925–2000), dance historian
  • J. Edwin Brainard, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
  • Joe Brainard (1942–1994), American artist
  • John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1795–1828), American lawyer, editor and poet
  • Josh Brainard, ex-guitarist for Slipknot
  • Lael Brainard, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
  • Mary Gardiner Brainard (1837–1905), American writer of religious poetry
  • Michael Brainard (born 1965), American actor
  • Roger Brainard (born 1951), American guitarist
  • William Brainard, American Economist

Usage examples of "brainard".

Newton made an excellent coxswain, but Brainard sometimes suspected that the seaman was too stupid to realize there was anything to be afraid of.

The opaque helmet visor hid Leaf's face, but Brainard could imagine the panic in the motorman's eyes.

The same terror stared back at Brainard whenever he looked into his soul—so he didn't do that, he concentrated on his instruments and his duty and to hell with Lieutenant Holman.

Those parties Brainard had seen, as officer-trainee and as civilian, for as far back as he could remember.

Mercenaries—and there were ten or a dozen at this gathering besides Brainard, mostly high officers—caroused because they might be about to die.

She tried to insert herself between Brainard and the other woman, but Chartreuse had a surprising amount of muscle in her plump arms.

The woman smiled at Brainard and shifted her stance, so that her erect pink nipples peeked out at him.

But Brainard hadn't been born in Wyoming Keep, so he'd had no idea that Wilding was prominent even within his class.

Their expressions quivered with various shades of envy as they eyed Brainard and the woman.

How did you explain to a man like Brainard that other people had limits?

The ensign was three calendar years younger than Wilding himself, but Brainard had been born with a soul as solid as the planetary mantle.

There had been lectures on surface life forms during training, but Brainard had pretty much dozed through them.

With that solid security in his hands, Brainard thought he might be able to get through the hours until they reached the peak.

For the grace period Brainard had offered them, the discomfort of a disconnected suit was more bearable than facing the surface unprotected.

The scar-faced man looking from the plenum chamber grinned at Brainard, turned his head, and spit into the oil-rainbowed water of Herd Harbor.