W. R. Brown (1875–1955) was an American corporate officer of the Brown Company of Berlin, New Hampshire and an influential breeder of Arabian horses. He was an early advocate for sustainable forest management practices and his innovations became industry standards. He was influenced by the Progressive movement, instituting employee benefits at the Brown Company such as care for injured workers, predating modern workers' compensation laws. He founded the Maynesboro Stud in 1912 with bloodstock from American breeders of Arabian horses, also importing horses from England, France, and Egypt. At its peak, Maynesboro was the largest Arabian horse farm in the United States. To prove the abilities of Arabians, he organized a number of endurance races of up to 300 miles, which his own horses won three times. He served as President of the Arabian Horse Club of America from 1918 until 1939. His 1929 book The Horse of the Desert is considered an authoritative work on Arabians, and the designation "Crabbet/Maynesboro/Kellogg" (CMK) denotes specific modern lines of American-bred Arabian horses. As a Republican, he served as a presidential elector for New Hampshire in 1924. (Full article...)
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A samurai with his sword and armor, photographed by Felice Beato c. 1860. The samurai, records of which date back to the early 10th-century Kokin Wakashū, were the military nobility of medieval and early-modern Japan. As Japan modernized during the Meiji period beginning in the late 1860s, the samurai lost much of their power, and the status was ultimately dissolved. However, samurai values remain common in Japanese society.
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