Pomponius Mela mentions it among the small towns of the district, probably as it was eclipsed by its neighbour Tarraco ( modern Tarragona ), but it may be gathered from later writers that it gradually grew in wealth and consequence, favoured as it was with a beautiful situation and an excellent harbour.

The return of House Harkonnen to power generally is ascribed to adroit manipulation of the whale fur market and later consolidation with melange wealth from Arrakis.

His experiences at Hyde's, where he worked a thirteen-hour day and slept in a dormitory with other apprentices, later inspired his novels The Wheels of Chance and Kipps, which portray the life of a draper's apprentice as well as providing a critique of society's distribution of wealth.

In the later years of his leadership, Daoud began to shift favour from the Soviet Union to Islamic nations, expressing admiration for their wealth from oil and expecting economic aid from them to quickly surpass that of the Soviet Union.

As Nobunaga conquered Japan and amassed a great amount of wealth, he progressively supported the arts for which he always had an interest, but which he later and gradually more importantly used as a display of his power and prestige.

However, they filed a large number of patents and amassed a wealth of information, which they later licensed to other companies.

Hofmeister was followed a few hours later by Emil Fischer, who had amassed a wealth of chemical details supporting the peptide-bond model.

There, the philanthropist brothers Evangelos and Konstantinos Zappas had used their wealth to fund Olympics within Greece, and paid for the restoration of the Panathinaiko Stadium that was later used during the 1896 Summer Olympics.

Graphical subjects found on postage stamps have ranged from the early portrayals of kings, queens and presidents to later depictions of ships, birds and satellites, famous people, historical events, comics, dinosaurs, hobbies ( knitting, stamp collecting ), sports, holiday themes, and a wealth of other subjects too numerous to list.

Egypt was known for the wealth of its crops ; it was to be the granary of the Persian Empire ( and, later, of the Roman Empire ) and was required to provide 120, 000 measures of grain in addition to 700 talents of silver.

Venice began to lose its position as a center of international trade during the later part of the Renaissance as Portugal became Europe's principal intermediary in the trade with the East, striking at the very foundation of Venice's great wealth, while France and Spain fought for hegemony over Italy in the Italian Wars, marginalising its political influence.

Much of the family's wealth came from a copper and later arsenic mine, Devon Great Consols, of which Morris divested himself in the 1870s.

He offers her huge armies and historic victories, great wealth and great power, and in later seasons his love, offers which she consistently rejects despite being sometimes tempted.

Nevertheless, the triumph is considered a characteristically Roman ceremony which represented Roman wealth, power and grandeur, and has been consciously imitated by medieval and later states in the royal entry and other ceremonial events.

Garfield worked as a janitor, bell ringer, and carpenter to support himself financially at the Geauga Seminary, at Chester, Ohio., Garfield later said of this early time, " I lament that I was born to poverty, and in this chaos of childhood, seventeen years passed before I caught any inspiration ... a precious 17 years when a boy with a father and some wealth might have become fixed in manly ways.

Turgot was one of the first to recognize that “ successive applications of the variable input will cause the product to grow, first at an increasing rate, later at a diminishing rate until it reaches a maximum .” This was a recognition that the productivity gains required to increase national wealth had an ultimate limit, and, therefore, wealth was not infinite.

A story later emerged that, after Crassus ' death, the Parthians poured molten gold into his mouth as a symbol of his thirst for wealth.

Originally illustrated by Frank Kelly Freas, and later by Phil Foglio, the highly pun-driven books follow a " demon " magician who has lost his powers and his inexperienced human apprentice as they travel through a variety of worlds in pursuit of finding their place in life, though under the guise of seeking wealth and glory.

Indeed, he appeared almost obsessed about building up wealth and lands, something that his daughter was also accused of in later life.

Less than a tenth of the force had survived the expedition, but Anson's achievements helped establish his name and wealth in Britain, leading to his later appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty.

In its later years, the show's wealth of silliness, smut and appalling punning was drawing audiences of up to a thousand people for its recordings.

After her birth her father began working to regain the family wealth, first with a job as an auctioneer and later with a job that he obtained with the railroad by using old contacts from his work as a contractor.

Lady Astor was initially sceptical, but later the two women became close and Astor used her wealth to aid their social efforts.

A ford, and later bridge, of the River Forth at Stirling brought wealth and strategic influence, as did its port.

Accordingly, Ahmed spent his wealth instead on supporting the works of scholars, calligraphers and pious men.

Moreover, Carnegie urged other wealthy people to contributed to society in the form of parks, works of art, libraries and other endeavors that improved the community, and contributed to the “ lasting good ” Carnegie also held a strong opinion against inherited wealth.

Chicago is well known for its wealth of public art, including works by such artistic heavyweights as Chagall, Picasso, Miro and Abakanowicz that are all to be found outdoors.

The position of decurion, member of the city council, had been an honor sought by wealthy aristocrats and the middle classes who displayed their wealth by paying for city amenities and public works.

Her frequent visits to the estate also allowed her to contrast the wealth in which the local landowner lived with the lives of the often much poorer people on the estate, and different lives lived in parallel would reappear in many of her works.

Thus began one of the most productive periods in Telemann's life: during his tenure at Eisenach he composed a wealth of instrumental music ( sonatas and concertos ), and numerous sacred works, which included four or five complete annual cycles of church cantatas, 50 German and Italian cantatas, and some 20 serenatas.

His view on class division and technocracy are as follows " Since when no one works for another, the profiteer from wealth disappears, just as government will disappear when no one pays attention to those who learned four things at universities and from that fact they pretend to govern men.

There is a wealth of stories and additional information about Moses in the Jewish apocrypha and in the genre of rabbinical exegesis known as Midrash, as well as in the primary works of the Jewish oral law, the Mishnah and the Talmud.

In the days of the First Hebitian Civilization, the Cardassians collected works of art from all over the Alpha Quadrant and the planet boasted a vast wealth of art and culture ; the people were said to have elaborate burial vaults with unimaginable treasures.

At this time Severus came under the powerful influence of Saint Martin, bishop of Tours, by whom he was led to devote his wealth to the Christian poor, and his own powers to a life of good works and meditation.

The conspicuous display of wealth appears to have been discouraged, although this did not preclude the production of very fine, highly decorated bronze, ivory and wooden works of art and the production of jewellery.

The Condés established a thriving glass-making works, which provided wealth to the principality for many years, and other founding families created enterprises, including textiles and other traditional Huguenot occupations in France.

Apart from the wealth of the carved stone columns and column heads, there are also some beautiful stained glass windows, the works of Canary Island painter Cristobal Hernandez de Quintana, and an extraordinary carving of the Reclining Christ, by Manuel Ramos.

Two sets of death duties in the 1940s, and the nationalization of their coal mines, greatly reduced the wealth of the Fitzwilliams, and most of the contents of the house were dispersed, in auction sales in 1948, 1986 and 1998, though many remain in the family, with many works loaned to museums by the " Trustees of the Fitzwilliam Estates ".

For example, a public works program to build roads creates no wealth simply by virtue of building the road.

Berlioz for example raised the issue of the inhibiting effects of Meyerbeer's success ( which he felt particularly as one who struggled to get his works performed ):' The pressure exerts on managers, artists and critics, and consequently on the Paris public, at least as much by his immense wealth as by his eclectic talent, makes all serious success at the Opéra virtually impossible.

Blessed by fame and wealth, Cochran donated a great deal of time and money to charitable works, especially with those from impoverished backgrounds like her own.

Those who failed to pass — most of the candidates at any single examination — did not lose wealth or local social standing ; as dedicated believers in Confucian orthodoxy, they served, without the benefit of state appointments, as teachers, patrons of the arts, and managers of local projects, such as irrigation works, schools, or charitable foundations.

" Even at death Pulcheria thought of way in which to help the poor of Constantinople, " In her will she reinforced that bond by instructing that all of her remaining wealth be distributed among the poor ..." After her death Pulcheria was made into a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church, "... she became a saint of the church, both in West and in the East, where centuries later the faithful of Constantinople celebrated her memorial each year on September 10, bearing in mind her piety and virginity, her works of philanthropy and construction and especially her greatest triumph: ' she caused the holy synod to take place at Chalcedon '.

Zach's surviving oeuvre comprises a wealth of both instrumental and sacred music: some 30 masses, 28 string sinfonias, a dozen keyboard works and other pieces.

Art collectors begin to appear, of manuscripts among the great nobles, like John, Duke of Berry ( 1340 – 1416 ) and of prints and other works among those with moderate wealth.

The institute works with partners to enhance crop quality and productivity, reduce producer and consumer risks, and generate wealth from agriculture. The institute is headquartered in Ibadan in Nigeria, Africa.

Common perspectives on colonialism show colonialism usually works through the use of brutal force employed by one country to exploit another community and obtain economic wealth through abuse of native people.