Broom (disambiguation)

A broom is a cleaning tool which also had other uses, e.g. magical and for punishment.

Broom may also mean:

  • Broom (shrub), a group of evergreen, semi-evergreen, and deciduous shrub genera from the Cytiseae tribe
  • Broom (album), an album by the American indie band Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
  • Broom-Hilda, U.S. newspaper comic strip created by Russell Myers
  • Broomstick Scientists - The 9393 Technical Service Unit at White Sands Proving Grounds launched three V-2 rockets after Operation Hermes, beginning with TF-1 on August 22, 1951[1][2]

Places
  • Broom, Bedfordshire
  • Broom, South Yorkshire
  • Loch Broom, Scotland

Surname
  • Jacob Broom
  • James M. Broom
  • Neil Broom
  • Robert Broom (1866 - 1951), South African physician and paleontologist

Homophones
  • Brome
  • Broome

References
  1. Kennedy, Gregory P. (1983). Vengeance Weapon 2: The V-2 Guided Missile. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 62.
  2. Egermeier, Robert P. (September 2001), "Former "Broomstick Scientist"", Aerospace America, p. 7{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.