• John Clavie or Clavee (died 1607) was a Scottish apothecary who worked for James VI and I and the royal family. Clavie was based in Edinburgh and moved...
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    military history John L. Childs (1899–1985), American educator and author John Chong (beekeeper), Singaporean beekeeper John Clavie (died 1607), Scottish...
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    it. Each year on 11 January a fire festival known as the Burning of the Clavie takes place; it is thought that the festival dates back to the 17th century...
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    sweetened and spiced to make Hippocras by two apothecaries, John Lawtie and John Clavie, and a third apothecary, Alexander Barclay made two pints of...
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  • sweetened and spiced to make Hippocras by two apothecaries, John Lawtie and John Clavie. Alexander Barclay made two pints of "vergeis" and a mutchkin...
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  • and had become a "servitour odoriferous" to the king. Shires displaced John Clavie from his position, who allowed him to make waters, perfumes, and odours...
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  • sweetened and spiced to make Hippocras by two apothecaries, John Lawtie and John Clavie, and a third apothecary, Alexander Barclay, made two pints of...
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    sweetened and spiced to make hippocras by two apothecaries, John Lawtie and John Clavie. Alexander Barclay, an apothecary who frequently worked for the...
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    Physicion". Anne of Denmark's apothecaries in England were John Clavie, John Woolf, (or John Wolfgang Rumler), appointed on 26 November 1604 to provide...
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    "Hop Night" where further dances and celebrations are held. Burning the clavie Olavsfestival Ólavsøka "Up-Helly-Aa". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford...
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    gallop up the Kirk Wynd, and get to the Monument (erected in memory of Sir John Malcolm), as part of checking the ancient boundaries. On Common Riding Day...
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    over the Internet. Another example of a fire festival is the burning the clavie in the town of Burghead in Moray. In the east coast fishing communities...
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    referred to as solar proton events and prompt proton events. Jiggens, P.; Clavie, C.; Evans, H.; O'Brien, T. P.; Witasse, O.; Mishev, A. L.; Nieminen, P...
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    The earliest known traces of published Scottish music dates from 1662. John Forbes of Aberdeen published the earliest printed collection of music in...
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    MacDouall, Lord Bankton's An Institute of the Laws of Scotland (1751–1753); John Erskine of Carnock's An Institute of the Law of Scotland (1773); and, George...
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    20 March 2016. Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland (revised ed.). edited by John Keay and Julia Keay. 2000. pp. 205–206. ISBN 9780007103539. Retrieved 1 March...
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    tarmacadam), Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the first practical telephone, John Logie Baird's invention of television, Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin...
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    were happening at Brughsea (Burghead). It is apparent, therefore, that Clavie burning was carried out in the three fisher towns of Brughsea, Causie (Covesea)...
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    as well. For example, the nation's great patriotic literature including John Barbour's The Brus (1375) and Blind Harry's The Wallace (before 1488) was...
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    solstice bonfires. Another event is observed every 11 January when the flaming Clavie (a barrel full of staves) is carried round in Burghead and is wedged on...
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    are said to have performed a Scottish sword dance before the Swedish King, John III, at a banquet held in Stockholm Castle. The dance, 'a natural feature...
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    59. RPS 1685/4/83. Union with England Act 1707 (c. 7), art. 17. Andrews, John Harwood (1985). Plantation acres: an historical study of the Irish land surveyor...
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    number of proposals for spelling reform were presented. Commenting on this, John Corbett (2003: 260) writes that "devising a normative orthography for Scots...
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  • Sim David Tennant David Elliot Peter Capaldi Richard Madden John Barrowman Karen Gillan John Hannah Martin Compston Douglas Henshall Mark Bonnar The Scottish...
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    published in 1658. Telfer Dunbar (1979), p. 41, quoting: Ray, John (1846) [1662]. Memorials of John Ray. London: Ray Society. Telfer Dunbar (1979), pp. 91–92...
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    Phalanx, 1987 John H. Appleby, Through the looking-glass: Scottish doctors in Russia (1704–1854), in The Caledonian Phalanx, 1987 John R. Bowles, From...
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    Alan Francis (writer) Bill Fraser Rikki Fulton Richard Gadd Graeme Garden John Gavin (comedian) Jimmy Gold Harry Gordon (entertainer) Andy Gray (actor)...
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    Commissions UK Supernatural Thriller Series 'The Rig' with 'Bodyguard' Director John Strickland & Wild Mercury". 3 November 2020. "BBC 'failed to comply' with...
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    festivals List of Celtic choirs#Scotland List of Celtic festivals Koch, John T. (2006). Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia. Vol. 1-. ABC-CLIO....
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    early as 1724 there was a published collection of Scottish dance tunes by John and William Neal "A collection of the Most celebrated Scotch Tunes". . When...
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