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Brand was the eldest son of soldier and courtier Thomas Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden, and of his wife Lady Katharine Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott, a daughter of the 6th Duke of Buccleuch, and was born 30 March 1900 at the home of his maternal grandfather, Montagu House in London. [1]
"A room without books is like a body without a soul," Cicero once said, though he might not have known that those books could one day be worth serious cash. How To Go From Broke in Your 40s to...
part of the UK Waterstone's brand Comikaza Israel: former chain, still exists as a stand-alone store Steimatzky Israel: Tzomet Sfarim Israel: Feltrinelli Italy: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore Italy: Book Off Japan: Books Kinokuniya Japan: Culture Convenience Club Japan: operates Tsutaya Bookstores [5] Libro Japan: Yurindo Japan: Kyobo Book Centre ...
The sale was a hit, and he renamed the chain Best Buy and shifted the model to a superstore format with 18,000-sq-ft stores, everyday low prices, and a heavy advertising budget. [ citation needed ] The format was very popular and thanks to increased demand for consumer electronics (especially with the advent of VCRs ), the chain grew to 40 ...
Thomas Brand (senior) (c. 1717 – 1770) was an English country landowner of The Hoo, Kimpton, Hertfordshire and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1741 ...
Brigadier General Thomas Walter Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden, GCVO, KCB, CMG, KStJ, JP (29 January 1869 – 4 September 1958) was a British peer and soldier, the son of the 2nd Viscount Hampden. Education
Brand supported children of poor parents, and put them to trades. Jabez Earle, minister of the presbyterian congregation in Hanover Street, London, was one of his protégés. Brand said he ‘would not sell his estate because it was entailed, but he would squeeze it as long as he lived.’ Brand died 1 December 1691, and was buried in Bunhill ...
This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have been sold for more than US$1 million. The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century Quran leaf palimpsest and the early 8th-century St Cuthbert Gospel , to a 21st-century autograph manuscript of J. K. Rowling ...