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John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant

John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant

Raymond Lamont Brown

Based on research in public,. private and royal archives, as well as diaries and memoirs of those who knew Brown and interviews with his surviving relatives, this text analyses the relationship between Queen Victorian and Brown.
A book of proverbs

A book of proverbs

Raymond Lamont-Brown

A selection of observations and mottoes drawn from the oral traditions of many cultures
Fife in history and legend

Fife in history and legend

Raymond Lamont-Brown

In this book the author introduces the reader to famous churches, castles and houses that witnessed events that have quite literally shaped the nation, and to those associated with them.
Villages of Fife

Villages of Fife

Raymond Lamont-Brown

This work is an account of the people of Fife and their village and Hamlet communities from medieval times to the present day.
Alice Keppel and Agnes Keyser: Edward VII's Last Loves

Alice Keppel and Agnes Keyser: Edward VII's Last Loves

Raymond Lamont Brown

A detailed look at the two women in the life of Edward VII during his last years.
Scottish Folklore

Scottish Folklore

Raymond Lamont-Brown

This work provides an A-Z of locations throughout Scotland and the folklore associated with each place. It traces the roots and traditions of Scottish folklore, and discusses recurring themes and influences.
Carnegie

Carnegie

Raymond Lamont-Brown

Charts the life of Andrew Carnegie, from Dunfermline bobbin boy to Steel King of America. Carnegie was born in Dunfermline in 1835, but poverty forced the Carnegies to immigrate to Pittsburgh.
How Fat Was Henry VIII?: And 100 Other Questions on Royal ...

How Fat Was Henry VIII?: And 100 Other Questions on Royal ...

Raymond Lamont Brown

James was horrified to discover, from where it is not clear, that the witches he had spoken to at court were employing their devilish arts to cause his murder on land or sea at the instigation of the Earl of Bothwell. Under torture the witches ...
Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy

Raymond Lamont-Brown

Born in Penzance in 1778, Humphry Davy's scientific reputation grew with his pioneering discoveries of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), sodium, calcium and the invention of the miners' Davy lamp.
Ships from Hell: Japanese War Crimes on the High Seas in ...

Ships from Hell: Japanese War Crimes on the High Seas in ...

Raymond Lamont-Brown

This is a new and frightening insight into Japanese atrocities in the Second World War. The horrific conditions aboard hellships at sea are revealed including the torture, disease and massacre which characterised them.
Royal Poxes and Potions: The Lives of Court Physicians, ...

Royal Poxes and Potions: The Lives of Court Physicians, ...

Raymond Lamont-Brown

Focusing primariily on the Georgian Period, this book tells the stories of the relationships between royal physicians and the monarchs they treated, giving us a unique perspective on monarchs and the monarchy.
The Critical Meaning of the Bible

The Critical Meaning of the Bible

Raymond Edward Brown

Raymond Brown, a Catholic priest who is Auburn Professor of Biblical Studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, argues strongly to the contrary.
Royal Poxes and Potions: Royal Doctors and Their Secrets

Royal Poxes and Potions: Royal Doctors and Their Secrets

Raymond Lamont-Brown

Included here is Sir William Gull, court physician to Queen Victoria, who was a suspect in the Jack the Ripper case, and Sir Frederick Treves, who was not only court physician to the four succeeding monarchs, but was also the man who helped ...
Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity

Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity

Peter Robert Lamont Brown

Publisher description: Peter Brown here examines how the sacred impinged upon the profane during the first Christian millennium.
John Masefield Correspondence with Corliss Lamont

John Masefield Correspondence with Corliss Lamont

John Masefield

Consists of two volumes of photocopied correspondence between Masefield and Lamont, concerning events of daily life and family news as well as Masefield and Lamont's work.
The body and society: men, women, and sexual renunciation in ...

The body and society: men, women, and sexual renunciation in ...

Peter Robert Lamont Brown

Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Christians' preoccupations with sexuality and the ...
An Introduction to the New Testament: The Abridged Edition

An Introduction to the New Testament: The Abridged Edition

Raymond E. Brown

Abridged by Marion Soards, who worked with Brown on the original text, this new, concise version maintains the essence and centrist interpretation of the original without tampering with Brown’s perspective, insights, or conclusions.
International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004

International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004

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BROWN, Patricia Ann Fortlni; b. 16 Nov. 1936, Oakland, CA, USA. University Prof ; Art Historian, m. 1st Peter Claus Meyer. May 1957, divorced 1978, two s.; m. 2nd Peter Robert Lamont Brown, Aug. 1980, divorced 1989. Education: AB, 1959 ...
28th Infantry (Keystone) Division (Mechanized): 125 Years of ...

28th Infantry (Keystone) Division (Mechanized): 125 Years of ...

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Michael Phillip SPC Brown, Paul Gene SGT Brown, Rachel Elizabeth SSG Brown , Raymond SPC Brown, Ronald Cart, ... Gregory James PV2 Burnsworth, Chad Michael SPC Burnworth, Jason Adam SPC Burr. ... Cole, Jason Daniel PFC Cole.
Augustine of Hippo: A Biography

Augustine of Hippo: A Biography

Peter Robert Lamont Brown

Classic biography, published 30 years ago. Contains new thoughts in a 2 chapter epilogue.
Yes to life: memoirs of Corliss Lamont

Yes to life: memoirs of Corliss Lamont

Corliss Lamont

A philosophy teacher and longtime defender of civil liberties recalls his life and discusses his views on government, economics, Vietnam, freedom, and immortality

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