Brianna /bri-an-na/ [3 sylls.] as a girls' name is pronounced bree-AHH-ah. It is of Irish, Gaelic and Celtic origin, and the meaning of Brianna is high, noble, exalted. May also possibly mean strong. A contemporary feminine form of Brian, found occasionally in England since the 16th century.
Video Vault. News Quiz. Farley died from overdose of cocaine, morphine January 2, 1998 Web posted at: 3:50 p.m. EST (2050 GMT) CHICAGO (CNN) -- Comedian Chris Farley died accidentally from an overdose of cocaine and morphine, and his body showed no traces of alcohol, the Cook County Medical Examiner announced Friday.
Veteran newscaster David Brinkley dies. Published 5:30 am, Thursday, June 12, 2003. He started out, in 1941, as an $11-a-week newspaper reporter for the Morning Star in Wilmington, N.C. By 1956, as co-anchor of a 15-minute newscast on NBC, he had become as familiar in America as Lucille Ball. David Brinkley, who died Wednesday night at his Houston home of complications from a fall taken last year, will be remembered for earning that familiarity.