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2 unusual facts about The Parson's Handbook


Altar candle

Percy Dearmer, author of The Parson's Handbook, states that English use supports no more than two lights on the altar.

The Parson's Handbook

The Parson's Handbook is a book by Percy Dearmer, first published in 1899, that was fundamental to the development of liturgy in the Church of England and throughout the Anglican Communion.


Benjamin Ross

From a handful of films since the early 1990s, his most noted works are The Young Poisoner’s Handbook (1995)—based on a real-life poisoning case—and RKO 281, about Orson Welles and the making of Citizen Kane.

Chris Pramas

Pramas' work for Dungeons & Dragons include: Slavers (2000, with Sean K. Reynolds), Guide to Hell (1999), Apocalypse Stone (2000, with Jason Carl), Vortex of Madness (2000), as well as some work on the third edition Player's Handbook (2000) and Dungeon Master's Guide (2000).

Clark A. Peterson

Clark Peterson and his old friend Bill Webb formed Necromancer Games in the spring of 2000 to publish role-playing materials using the impending d20 license; on August 10, 2000, the same day Wizards of the Coast was to release the new Player's Handbook at GenCon 33, Peterson and Webb published a free PDF adventure called The Wizard's Amulet just a few minutes after midnight that same day.

Deborah Blum

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (2010)

Hustla's Handbook

"Like This" was also used in the soundtrack for the movie Waist Deep in 2006.

Machinist's handbook

Today, the phrases "machinist's handbook" or "machinists' handbook" are almost always imprecise references to Machinery's Handbook.

During the decades from World War I through World War II, these phrases could refer to either of two competing reference books: McGraw-Hill's American Machinists' Handbook or Industrial Press's Machinery's Handbook.

The latter book, Machinery's Handbook, is still regularly revised and updated, and it continues to be a "bible of the metalworking industries" today.

The Official Lawyer’s Handbook

Public distrust of lawyers reached record heights in the United States after the Watergate scandal.

The Parson's Widow

Both exterior and interior shots were filmed at the Garmo stave church and the Maihaugen museum.

The Poisoner's Handbook

PBS optioned the book for TV and produced it as an episode of American Experience.


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Thomas Geoffry Lucas

By this date he had come under the influence of Percy Dearmer: the frontispiece to the 1907 edition of the latter's The Parson's Handbook was a pen-and-ink drawing by Lucas which showed an English altar of the type promoted by Sir Ninian Comper and Dearmer.