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Chambers Book of Days (The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character)[1] was written by the Scottish author Robert Chambers and first published in 1864.

A new version of Chambers Book of Days was published by Chambers Harrap in 2004.[2]

  1. ^ Chambers Book of Days (1864) Chambers Harrap web site Archived October 29, 2006, at the Wayback Machine (this link is dead but the 1869 edition can be found here [1])
  2. ^ Ian Sansom Crunchy, but not the original in The Guardian December 4, 2004

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Book of Days may refer to: Fasti (poem), known in English as the "Book of Days", a Latin poem by Ovid Chambers Book of Days, by Robert Chambers The Wicca...

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Claddagh ring

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Sir William Jones described the Claddagh, and gives Chambers' Book of Days as the source, in his book Finger-Ring Lore. Jones says: The clasped hands [style...

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Guy Fawkes mask

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Night". From the 1864 Chambers Book of Days: The universal mode of observance through all part of England is the dressing up of a scarecrow figure in...

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Seventh son of a seventh son

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Beano. 64. Seventh Sons and Their Seventh Sons: A passage from Chambers' Book of Days with information about the belief in the UK, France, and Germany...

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Running of the bulls

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Tourisme du Pays de Sommières. Retrieved 22 August 2017. Chambers Book of Days (1864). W. & R. Chambers Ltd. 1832. 13 November entry Rolán, Saioa (8 June 2022)...

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Alice Arden

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Chronicles and later had entries in both The Newgate Calendar and the Chambers Book of Days. Alice Brigantine married Thomas Arden on an unknown date. They...

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Caroline of Brunswick

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Robins, pp. 314–317 "Rumpus – St Peter's, Colchester". Robert Chambers, Book of Days Laquer (1982) p 417 'Libel On The Late Queen In 'John Bull', Town...

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Astronomy

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Chambers, Robert (1864) Chambers Book of Days Forbes 1909, pp. 79–81 Forbes 1909, pp. 74–76 Belkora, Leila (2003). Minding the heavens: the story of our...

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Fish pie

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Retrieved 30 April 2020. Chambers Book of Days - February 24th, FISH AND FISH PIES IN LENT Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2004). Encyclopedia of Kitchen History. Routledge...

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Man in the Iron Mask

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seventy years later. Robert Chambers' Book of Days supports the claim and places Matthioli in the Bastille for the last 13 years of his life. Since that time...

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Stephen Girard

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estimated wealth at death of $7,500,000 Girard's Wealth/GDP ratio equalled 1/150. Wildes, 1943. Robert Chambers' Book of Days vol 2. Chisholm, Hugh, ed...

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Marilyn Chambers

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Briggs; April 22, 1952 – April 12, 2009), known professionally as Marilyn Chambers, was an American pornographic actress, exotic dancer, model, actress, singer...

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James Watt

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230–31 Robert Chambers' Book of Days. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh...

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Swearing on the Horns

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Limited. pp. 413–418. swearing on the horns. Robert Chambers (1869). "January 15". Chambers' Book of Days. Harold D. Eberlein and Albert E. Richardson (1972)...

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Rump Parliament

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2010. "20 April Cromwell's Dissolution of the Rump Parliament". Chambers' Book of Days. (With a shortened version of Cromwell's speech). Cromwell, Oliver...

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Ben Jonson

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of Ben Jonson". The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online. Cambridge University Press. Accessed 11 June 2021 Robert Chambers, Book of Days...

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New Grub Street

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a French edition of 1901. The novel's two central characters are a sharply contrasted pair of writers: Edwin Reardon, a novelist of some talent but limited...

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Simnel cake

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shapes of the Simnel cake. Both Bury and Shrewsbury produced large numbers to their own recipes. Chambers Book of Days (1869) contains an illustration of the...

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Joanna Southcott

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the rolls, Volume XXXI, 1862. Saunders and Benning. p. 14. Robert Chambers, Book of Days, vol 2, p. 776. Trevor H. Hall (1978). Search for Harry Price. Duckworth...

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Animal trial

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a trial against a woodworm in his 1989 book A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. The 1993 film The Hour of the Pig, released as The Advocate in the...

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Yule log

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Emblem of the return of the Sun, and the lengthening of the Days. For as both December and January were called Guili or Yule, upon Account of the Sun's...

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Accession day

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Prayer-Book; its history, language and contents; 26th ed. Redhill: Wells Gardner (1948), p. 535.) Chambers Book of Days, Edinburgh: Chambers, 2004 (ISBN 0-550-10083-0)...

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Medieval football

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and bushes."The Chambers' Book of Days 9 February Torrington in Devon had Out-Hurling. "Once played on Trinity Monday, The sport of 'Out-hurling' was...

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Nathaniel Crouch

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published by Crouch. Robert Chambers' Book of Days (1864) elaborated: "With probably little education, but something of a natural gift for writing, Crouch...

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Dragon of Mordiford

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Dragons of the Marches St George and other dragon tales from Chambers' Book of Days Helps to Hereford history, civil and legendary, in an account of ... The...

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