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Sir Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, GCMG (Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke; 3 June 1829 – 17 May 1917), born Charles Anthoni Johnson, ruled as the head of state of Raj of Sarawak from 3 August 1868 until his death. He succeeded his uncle, James Brooke, as the second White Rajah. Biography Charles Anthoni Johnson, was born in Berrow Vicarage, Burnham, Somerset, in England, to the Rev. Francis Charles and Emma Frances Johnson, née Brooke. Emma was the younger sister of James Brooke, the first Rajah of Sarawak. In addition to Charles, Francis and Emma had other children: Captain John Brooke Johnson (1823–1868) (later Brooke Brooke), Mary Anna Johnson (b. 1824), Harriet Helena Johnson (b. 1826), Charlotte Frances Johnson (b. 1828), Captain (William) Frederic Johnson (b. 1830), Emma Lucy Johnson (b. 1832), Margaret Henrietta Johnson (1834–1845), Georgianna Brooke Johnson (1836–1854), James Stuart Johnson (1839–1840), and Henry Stuart Johnson (b. 1841). Brooke was educated at Crewkerne Grammar School and entered the Royal Navy. He entered the service of his uncle James, the first Rajah of Sarawak, in 1852, took his name, and began as Resident at the Lundu station in the Raj of Sarawak. In the 1857 rebellion against the White Rajah James Brooke, Charles Brooke helped his uncle James put down the rebellion led by Liu Shan Bang with his force composed of Ibans and local Bidayuh tribes. It is noted that Brooke's Iban forces pursued the remaining rebels to Bau, where they slaughtered the 3,000 villagers including women, children and old folks in a massacre. In 1865, James named Charles as his successor. Brooke married Margaret Alice Lili de Windt at Highworth, Wiltshire, on 28 October 1869; she was raised to the title of Ranee of Sarawak with the style of Her Highness on the same day. They had six children, three of whom survived infancy: Dayang Ghita Brooke (1870–1873) James Harry Brooke (1872–1873) Charles Clayton Brooke (1872–1873) Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (1874–1963) Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke, Tuan Muda (1876–1965) Henry Keppel Brooke, Tuan Bongsu (1878–1927) Brooke’s son Charles Vyner Brooke succeeded him as Rajah. He had another son, Esca Brooke (1868–1951), the result of a previous marriage with a Malay woman known as Dayang Mastiah. Esca was later adopted by the Rev. William Daykin, moved to Canada, and took the name Brooke-Daykin. Brooke lost an eye at some point in a riding accident, and allegedly replaced it with a false eye intended for a stuffed albatross. Brooke resigned his commission in the Royal Navy in 1861 and continued the work his uncle had started, suppressing piracy, slavery, and head-hunting, while encouraging trade and development and expanding the borders of his domain as the opportunity arose. In 1891 he established the Sarawak Museum, the first museum in Borneo. Brooke founded a boys' school in 1903, called the 'Government Lay School', where Malays could be taught in the Malay language. This was the forerunner of SMK Green Road. By the time of his death, Britain had established a protectorate over Sarawak, it had parliamentary government and a railway, and oil had been discovered. All three White Rajahs are buried in St Leonard's Church in the village of Sheepstor on Dartmoor. Honours British Honours Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG), 1888 At least two Bornean species were named in Brooke's honour: Brooke's Squirrel (Sundasciurus brookei), named by Oldfield Thomas Cervus brookei, a deer named by Charles Hose in 1893 See also Fort Margherita Genealogy Johnson/Brooke References Further reading Pybus, Cassandra (1996). The White Rajahs of Sarawak: Dynastic Intrigue and the Forgotten Canadian Heir. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd. ISBN 1-55054-603-1. Ranee Margaret of Sarawak (2001). My Life in Sarawak. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-582663-9. R.H.W. Reece (1982). The Name of Brooke, the End of White Rajah Rule in Sarawak. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-580474-4. Dictionary of National Biography entry. Discover the Charles Johnson popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Charles Johnson books.
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Walking with the Muses
Pat ClevelandAn exciting account of the international adventures of fashion model Pat Clevelandone of the first black supermodels during the wild sixties and seventies.“Taking her reader throug...
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The New Negro
Alain LockeFrom the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help...
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After Lincoln
A. J. LangguthA brilliant evocation of the postCivil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruction, which set back black America...
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Charles A. Johnson v. Bertha Johnson
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Thrillville, USA
Taylor KoekkoekWINNER OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS SUE KAUFMAN PRIZE FOR FIRST FICTIONA raw and remarkable debut story collection concerning substance abuse, societal alienation, a...
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Hardcourt
Fred BowenCelebrate seventyfive years of the NBA in this exciting and beautifully illustrated middle grade account of the legendary athletes, coaches, and teams that changed basketball forev...
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Off the Edge
Kelly Weill“A deep dive into the world of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists . . . that brilliantly reveals how people fall into illogical beliefs, reject reason, destroy relationships, and conn...
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The Breakers
Marcia MullerNew York Times bestselling author Marcia Muller is at her pageturning best in The Breakers, as she digs into a particularly disturbing corner of San Francisco's historyone that Sha...
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64 Geeks
Chas Newkey-BurdenWe wouldn't have Bluetooth or WiFi today without the ingenuity of an actress once described as "the most beautiful woman in the world."And we might have had mobile messaging as ear...
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Game Face
Bernard King & Jerome PreislerA memoir by the NBA Hall of Fame player, active from 19771993 and widely regarded as one of the alltime great New York Knicks. NBA Hall of Famer Bernard King is one of the most dyn...
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Richard Charles Johnson v. State Texas
First District, Houston Court of Appeals of TexasA jury found appellant guilty of murder, and the court assessed his punishment at life in prison. In four grounds of error, appellant contends that the trial court erred by failing...
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Thaddeus Stevens
Bruce LevineA “powerful” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century’s greatest statesmen, encompassing his decadeslong fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bri...
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The Secret Book of Flora Lea
Patti Callahan HenryWhen a woman discovers a rare book with connections to her past, longheld secrets about her missing sister and their childhood in the English countryside during World War II are re...
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The Basketball 100
The Athletic & Dan KaufmanA celebration of basketball by way of the 100 greatest players to ever grace the court in the history of the NBAfrom The Athletic’s foremost basketball writers and analysts the gam...
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The Escapades of Tribulation Johnson
Karen BrooksFrom the author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this brilliant recreation of the vibrant, optimistic but politically treacherous world of London's Restoration theatre, where we are ...
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Cesare Borgia
Sarah BradfordTHE FULL STORY BEHIND THE BORGIAS, NOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA STARRING JEREMY IRONS'Either Caesar or nothing' was the motto of Cesare Borgia, whose name has long been synonymous with evi...
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Dream Team
Jack McCallumNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball T...
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Estella
Kathy George'A haunting and darkly beautiful retelling of Dickens's Great Expectations.' Karen Brooks, author. The icily enigmatic antihero of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations tells her ow...
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Music of the Ghosts
Vaddey RatnerThis “novel of extraordinary humanity” (Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing) from New York Times bestselling author Vaddey Ratner reveals “the endless ways that f...
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Alexander The Great
Graham PhillipsMURDER IN BABYLON is a reallife historical detective story: a true tale of murder and mystery that has remained untold for over two thousand years.Recreating the scene of the crime...
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Blood in the Garden
Chris HerringINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A SELECTION ON BARACK OBAMA’S SUMMER READING LISTThe definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrating how Pat Riley, Patrick Ewing, J...
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Footnotes
Peter FiennesThrough past and present, the country and the city, Peter Fiennes takes a literary journey through the British Isles‘As enjoyable a guide to the relationship of writers to the land...
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The American Story
David M. RubensteinCofounder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing con...
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The Travels
Marco PoloMarco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On hi...
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Eden
D R ThorpeAnthony Eden, who served as both Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, was one of the central political figures of the twentieth century. He had good looks, charm, a Military Cross...
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Called to the Fire
Chet BushThis is the true story of Dr. Charles Johnson, an African Americanpreacher who went to Mississippi in 1961 during the summer of theFreedom Rides. Fresh out of Bible School Johnson ...
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Jumpman
Johnny SmithHow Michael Jordan’s path to greatness was shaped by race, politics, and the consequences of fame To become the most revered basketball player in America, it wasn’t enough for Mich...
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Timelines of Science
Leo Ball & Patricia FaraFrom the wheel to the worldwide web, our planet has been transformed by science.Now you can travel through time to experience centuries of invention and innovation on this spectacu...
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The Last Enforcer
Charles OakleyIn this “incredible read on some incredible days and nights in the old association” (Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPN senior NBA insider) Charles Oakleyone of the toughest and most loyal p...
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Coup in Dallas
H. P. Albarelli & Dick RussellThe CIA, Dallas, and the Hard Details of the JFK AssassinationCoup in Dallas leaves speculation and theory aside to give the hard details of who killed President John F. Kennedy an...
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Menus that Made History
Alex Johnson & Vincent Franklin'An absolutely riveting book reading it makes you intelligent, full of brilliant anecdotes and very hungry indeed.' Richard Curtis 'This brilliantly conceived and wellresearched...
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The Times Queen Elizabeth II
James Owen & Times BooksFrom young princess to internationally revered head of state, Queen Elizabeth has always fascinated and intrigued. This fully updated second edition celebrates and remembers the gl...
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The Celts
Barry Cunliffe & Nora ChadwickThe Celtic period was one of tremendous expansion, the last phase of European material and intellectual development before the Mediterranean world spread northwards over the Contin...
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Jimmy Charles Johnson v. State Texas
Court of Criminal Appeals of TexasEsther Close, Assistant Manager of a Cabells SevenEleven Store in Longview, testified that, while she was on duty alone on the night of September 26, 1971, the appellant entered th...
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Clavis Charles Johnson v. State Texas
383 Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas No. 43The offense is burglary; the punishment, two (2) years. Appellant's first ground of error arises out of an ingenious contention. He asserts "the trial court reversibly erred in ...
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Elizabeth B. Johnson v. Charles B. Maccoy
United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.Before BARNES, HAMLEY and JERTBERG, Circuit Judges. BARNES, Circuit Judge.
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Johnson V. Charles Morris As Secretary Of Department Of Social
Supreme Court of WashingtonA writ of habeas corpus was issued by the Superior Court for Thurston County to the Secretary of the State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) for the release of respon...
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Charles B. Johnson v. Prudential Insurance Company America
The Supreme Court of TexasThis is a suit to collect benefits under a group life insurance policy. The insurance company resists payment on the ground that the deceased insured willfully deceived the company...
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Charles William Johnson v. State Texas
En Banc No. 68-565 Court of Criminal Appeals of TexasNone CLINTON, Judge While the Court correctly sustains appellant's first two grounds of error upon its finding that the controlled substance and hypodermic syringes were seized in ...
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The History and Lives of Notorious Pirates and Their Crews
Charles Johnson & C. Lovat FraserThere is a fascination surrounding the subject of pirates and pirate lore that centers around the romanticized impression of lawless, brutal ruffians pillaging ships, hunting for g...
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7 best short stories by Charles W. Chesnutt
Charles W. Chesnutt & August NemoCharles W. Chesnutt was an important voice in his day and remains a precious reading for those who want to better understand the period of construction of African American identity...