Arms of the Earls of Lauderdale as shown in Brown's The Peerage of Scotland, 1834

Brown's 1834 Peerage of Scotland gives a creation year of 1440.

Arms as shown in Brown's Peerage of Scotland, 1834

Arms of the Earls of Glencairn as recorded in Brown's Peerage, 1834

In Brown's novel, it is hinted that Jesus was merely a mortal man with strong ideals, and that the Grail was long buried beneath Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, but that in recent decades its guardians had it relocated to a secret chamber embedded in the floor beneath the Inverted Pyramid near the Louvre Museum.

Within days of the incident suggestions appeared that Watson had been to Chancellor Gordon Brown's residence in Scotland only the day before the memo was sent to Tony Blair.

17 Whitman students traveled to Scotland to perform their production of Jason Robert Brown's " Songs For a New World ".

Alexander Stewart states that this popular feel was passed along from " New Orleans — through James Brown's music, to the popular music of the 1970s.

Alexander Stewart states that the popular feel was passed along from " New Orleans — through James Brown's music, to the popular music of the 1970s ," adding: " The singular style of rhythm & blues that emerged from New Orleans in the years after World War II played an important role in the development of funk.

Alexander Stewart states that the popular feel was passed along from " New Orleans — through James Brown's music, to the popular music of the 1970s ," adding: " The singular style of rhythm & blues that emerged from New Orleans in the years after World War II played an important role in the development of funk.

Incomparable to man, Thoreau likens Brown's execution – he states that he regards Brown as dead before his actual death – to Christ's crucifixion at the hands of Pontius Pilate with whom he compares the American government.

* The PDE has been used as a story point in a number of modern novels such as Dan Brown's thriller, Deception Point ( the second page of the book states that all technologies in the story are non-fictional and exist, albeit without referencing any sources ), and Victor Koman's science fiction polemic, Kings of the High Frontier.

The legend behind Brown's most recognised work is therefore plausible: it states that Brown got into trouble while at Oxford, and was threatened with expulsion, but that Dr Fell offered to spare Brown if he could translate an epigram from Martial ( I, 32, 1 ):

However, Alexander Nisbet, writing as far back as 1722 states: " this family was dignified with the title of Lord Borthwick in the beginning of the reign of King James II " which commenced in 1437, which is closer to Brown's assertion.

Other elements of Brown's formulation include spending £ 100 million a year on setting up a rapid reaction force to intervene in failed states.

Although he became more concerned with the defense of states rights after John Brown's raid on the U. S. Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in October 1859, Moore continued to recommend caution.

It is recorded that in response to John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry he bolstered the Federal arsenals in some Southern states by over 115, 000 muskets and rifles in late 1859.

A line drawing of the leaves and cones from Britton and Brown's 1913 Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada

Botanical drawing of the leaves, flowers and samaras from Nathaniel Lord Britton | Britton and Addison Brown | Brown's 1913 Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada

Brown's journal states that the party had walked into an ambush, but most latter-day historians have interpreted the event as a punitive attack on the natives by Brown's party.

Thomas Hughes ( author of Tom Brown's Schooldays ) was asked to comment on the game as played when he attended the school ( 1834 – 1842 ).

A quote from Tom Brown's Schooldays written by Thomas Hughes ( who attended Rugby School from 1834 to 1842 ) shows that the ball was not a complete sphere:

In 1834, Brown built a hotel in Tallahassee called Brown's Inn located on the west side of Adams St. between Pensacola and Lafayette streets.

Since 1993, Lord Mayors have not received any automatic honours upon appointment ; instead, they have been created Knights Bachelor upon retirement, although Gordon Brown's government broke with tradition by awarding Ian Luder the CBE after his term of office in 2009, and the following year Nick Anstee declined the offer of any national honour.

From 2007 to 2010 he was the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and the Secretary of State for Justice, appointed as part of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's first Cabinet.

Straw was appointed Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for Justice on the first full day of Gordon Brown's ministry, 28 June 2007.

Following Gordon Brown's October 2008 reshuffle, Blizzard was promoted from an Assistant Whip to a Government Whip otherwise known as a ' Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury '.

Following Gordon Brown's October 2008 reshuffle, Cunningham was promoted from Assistant Whip to a Government Whip also known as a ' Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury ', in which role he served until May 2010.

A long-standing friend of former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, Lord Levy spent nine years from 1998 to 2007 Tony Blair's special envoy to the Middle East, being replaced by Gordon Brown's appointee, Michael Williams from September 2007.

Not long after he arrives, he is disturbed while searching for the manuscript, and leaps from the library window to land in a flowerbed at Lord Emsworth's feet, adding to the Earl's poor opinion of Baxter's sanity, an opinion worsened further when, at the climax of proceedings, he is found hiding under Sue Brown's bed ( a young girl for whom he had developed some affection, on the basis that she was a wealthy heiress, and was disgusted to find was an impostor ).

He prayed with the family of John Muirhead in his home, " Lord, when wilt Thou avenge Brown's blood?

" John Brown's Body ", the marching song of the American Civil War, was based on the tune of an earlier camp-meeting and revival hymn, and was later fitted with the words " Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord ", by Julia Ward Howe.

Some, like Lord Allenby condemned Brown's remarks, while others, like Lord Monckton acknowledged the truth of the remarks.

Since 1974 with the publication of Elizabeth A. R. Brown's The Tyranny of a Construct, and Susan Reynolds ' Fiefs and Vassals ( 1994 ), there has been ongoing inconclusive discussion among medieval historians as to whether feudalism is a useful construct for understanding medieval society.

In Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted ( 1994 ), Susan Reynolds expanded upon Brown's original thesis.

Brown's most important painting was Work ( 1852 – 1865 ), commissioned by Thomas Plint and which he showed at a special exhibition.

The best known is Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code, which, like Holy Blood, Holy Grail, is based on the idea that the real Grail is not a cup but the womb and later the earthly remains of Mary Magdalene ( again cast as Jesus ' wife ), plus a set of ancient documents claimed to tell the true story of Jesus, his teachings and descendants.

While performing in Macon, Georgia, having now changed their name to the Flames, a club promoter, Clint Brantley ( then agent of one of Brown's idols, Little Richard ), suggested the band add " Famous " in front of their name to draw more people to his club.

The ballad, " Lost Someone ", credited with the Famous Flames, became, along with " Please, Please, Please ", an early show-stopper to Brown's shows, while the recording of the Joe Tex composition, " Baby You're Right " ( to which Brown altered completely from the original ), increased his reputation with R & B audiences.

The main guitar ostinatos for " Ain't it Funky " ( c. late 1960s ), and " Give it Up or Turn it Lose " ( 1969 ), are examples of Brown's refinement of New Orleans funk ; irresistibly danceable riffs, stripped down to their rhythmic essence.

Other members of Brown's band included stalwart singer and sideman Bobby Byrd, drummers John " Jabo " Starks, Clyde Stubblefield and Melvin Parker ( Maceo's brother ), saxophonist St. Clair Pinckney, trombonist Fred Wesley, guitarist Alphonso " Country " Kellum and bassist Bernard Odum.

In March 1970, most of the members of Brown's mid-to-late 1960s road band walked out on him due to money disputes, and The Famous Flames singing group had disbanded ( for the same reason ), with original and founding member Bobby Byrd the only one remaining with Brown.

* John Brown's Body ( band ), an American Reggae band

Serious writers who used lesbian characters and plots included Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), which presents a feminist heroine who chooses to be a lesbian.

The core of the school ( which contains School House, featured in Tom Brown's Schooldays ) was completed in 1815 and is built around the Old Quad ( quadrangle ), with its fine and graceful Georgian architecture.

In his authoritative ' Godliness and Good Learning ' ( Cassell 1961 ), D. H. Newsome points out that muscular Christianity developed after Arnold's time at Rugby and that " although ' Tom Brown's School Days ' is one of the earliest examples of the delight in athleticism, the ideal there expressed is not that of Arnold but of Thomas Hughes author " ( page 80 ).

In 2004, the trustees acquired Mountaintop Farm ( also known locally as Patterson's or Brown's Mountain ), the only property that overlooks Monticello.

Blair and Brown's arrangement continued between Brown ( at 11 ) and Alistair Darling ( at 10 ), and is said to be likely to continue in the Cameron ministry ( David Cameron at 11 and George Osborne at 10 ).

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

Brown later designed the Northlight film scanner for the Computer Film Company scanner division ( now Filmlight ), and was responsible not only for its remarkable engineering design, but also its 1920s-style marble and steel appearance — an artistic flourish that was characteristic of Brown's approach to life.

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )