This converted to GBP £ 1, 687, 837 at the time In 2012, the capital is worth around SEK 3. 1 billion ( USD 472 million, EUR 337 million ), which is almost twice the amount of the initial capital, taking inflation into account.

The financing of the college had largely come from customs duties collected by John Coape Sherbrooke, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia during the occupation of Castine, Maine during the War of 1812, who invested GBP £ 7000 as the initial endowment and reserved GBP £ 3000 for the physical construction of the college.

The contract for the initial system was awarded to GEC Mowlem in 1984 and the system was constructed from 1985 to 1987 at a cost of £ 77 million.

The medal sold for £ 124, 750, exceeding the initial estimate of £ 90, 000.

Punch was founded on 17 July 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells, on an initial investment of £ 25.

The initial purchaser had paid £ 5, 250 for it on its completion, and subsequent sales were for £ 861 in 1935, £ 265 in 1942, and was " bought in " at £ 252 in 1960 ( having failed to meet its reserve ), but when the same picture was auctioned at Christies in New York in May 1995, it sold for £ 1. 75 million.

* April 27 – The blind, impoverished, 58-year-old John Milton sells the copyright of his epic poem Paradise Lost to London publisher Samuel Simmons for an initial payment of £ 5.

The system didn't succeed as well as expected, mostly due to its high initial retail price of £ 599.

In 1946, the post-war Anglo-American loan further indebted Britain to the U. S. Lend-lease items retained were sold to Britain at 10 % of nominal value, giving an initial loan value of £ 1. 075 billion for the Lend Lease portion of the post-war loans.

After his initial rage, James smoothed things over by giving her a £ 2, 000 diamond in memory of the dog, whose name was Jewel.

Estimated gains from the sale fluctuated, and in January 2001 British Airways admitted that its initial estimates may have been incorrect and that they now estimated Go to be worth only £ 200m.

Junior ISAs are being introduced from 1 November 2011 with an initial subscription limit of £ 3, 600.

On his second voyage, Frobisher found what he thought was gold ore and carried 200 tons of it home on three ships, where initial assaying determined it to be worth a profit of £ 5. 1 per ton.

Martell, then a Seagram subsidiary, took over sponsorship of the Aintree meeting for an initial seven years from 1992, in a £ 4 million deal.

Following this, the Saints made their first big signing under Markus Liebherr as they unveiled new striker Rickie Lambert who was purchased on 10 August 2009, for an initial £ 800, 000, which could rise to £ 1m subject to appearances, from fellow League One side Bristol Rovers.

By April 1966, estimated costs had increased to £ 150 million, from an initial estimated of £ 70 million.

The initial capital of £ 100, 000 was inadequate and a further £ 50, 000 was borrowed from the Exchequer Bill Loan Commission.

`` Damn you, Adams '' -- Jess was beginning to recover from his initial shock.

As he talked about himself, time and again stuffing and dragging on his pipe, Steinberg began to relax and the initial hurried feeling grew faint and was dispelled.

With facts mainly in his mind, he was often acute in the matter of style, and he said, `` The young who have as yet nothing to say will try larks with initial letters and broken lines.

In each case there was an initial act of violence.

This aircraft, which was planned for initial operational use about 1965, would be complementary to but likewise competitive with the four strategic ballistic missile systems, all of which are scheduled to become available earlier.

A satisfactory cloud was produced even though these nozzles were only about 5 per cent efficient in producing an initial cloud in the size range of 1 to 5 microns.

In this case, then, the military objective was accomplished with an epidemic agent solely through the results secured in the initial attack.

Such a dual derivation was strikingly demonstrated during the injection process where initial filling would be noted to occur in several isolated pleural vessels at once.

At no time was it implied by the experimenter that the subject's initial reaction was deviant.

There was no implication made that their initial reaction ( absence of an arm-elevation ) was less preferred than the presence of levitation.

Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;

The initial setting of the availability table indicated that the index word or electronic switch was not available for assignment.

For the initial development an oxidation pond was constructed as shown in Figure 1.

One of his initial acts in office was to appoint Philip Coombs of the Ford Foundation as the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.

One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.

One of the initial questions put to President Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev.

Her initial intelligence tests registered above normal and her adaptation index was unusually high.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

The study of altruism was the initial impetus behind George R. Price's development of the Price equation, which is a mathematical equation used to study genetic evolution.

The first is called the initial arraignment and must take place within 48 hours of an individual's arrest, 72 hours if the individual was arrested on the weekend and not able to go before a judge until Monday.

The Glagolitic alphabet was the initial script of the liturgical language Old Church Slavonic and became, together with the Greek uncial script, the basis of the Cyrillic script.

Johnston's initial call upon the governors for more men did not result in many immediate recruits but Johnston had another, even bigger, problem since his force was seriously short of arms and ammunition even for the troops he had.

Abbreviations have been used as long as phonetic scripts have existed, in some sense actually being more common in early literacy, where spelling out a whole word was often avoided, initial letters commonly being used to represent words in specific application.

In June 1981, the Army awarded AM General a contract for development of several more prototype vehicles to be delivered to the U. S. government for another series of tests, and the company was later awarded the initial production contract for 55, 000 HMMWVs to be delivered in 1985.

After a selection process by General Medaris and Dr. Arthur Rudolph, the Martin Company ( later Martin Marietta after a merger in 1961 ) was awarded a CPFF ( cost-plus-fixed-fee ) contract for research, development, and initial production of the Pershing system under the technical supervision and concept control of the government.

As a result of Cooney's initial proposal in 1968, the Carnegie Institute awarded her an $ 8 million ($ million in dollars ) grant to create a new children's television program and establish the CTW, renamed in 2000 to the Sesame Workshop ( SW ).

Bizet was awarded the prize after a ballot of the members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts overturned the judges ' initial decision, which was in favour of the oboist Charles Colin.

Electronic Gaming Monthly awarded the game a Gold award in its initial review, and in Edge magazine, Super Mario 64 was the first game to receive a perfect score.

The college wished to retain its links with Wales, and initial reforms were limited despite the wishes of the commissioners: those scholarships that were limited to particular parts of Wales were opened to the whole of Wales, and half of the fellowships awarded were to remain open only to Welshmen if and so long as the Principal and Fellows shall deem it expedient for the interests of education in connection with the Principality of Wales.

A golfer who wins the event multiple times uses the same green jacket awarded upon his initial win ( unless he needs to be re-fitted with a new green jacket ).

) In August 2012, the initial report on a review of the MMP system by the Electoral Commission recommended abolishing the one electorate seat threshold, meaning a party winning an electorate seat but not crossing the 5 % threshold ( which the same report recommends lowering to 4 %) is only awarded that electorate seat.

Development of a heavy tank design had been initiated in 1937 ; the initial design contract was awarded to Henschel.

Coase's main point, clarified in his article ' The Problem of Social Cost ', published in 1960 and cited when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1991, was that transaction costs, however, could not be neglected, and therefore, the initial allocation of property rights often mattered.

The LRCP qualification used to be reserved for medical graduates, in practice mainly Bachelors of Medicine from Oxford and Cambridge, but in the mid-nineteenth century became part of a very popular initial qualification in medicine awarded together with the MRCS ( Eng ) by the Conjoint Board, which, by the end of the twentieth century came to be largely taken by overseas graduates.

Founded on May 6, 1902, by August Belmont, Jr., the IRT's mission was to operate New York City's initial underground rapid transit system after Belmont's and John B. McDonald's Rapid Transit Construction Company was awarded the rights to build the railway line in 1900, outbidding Andrew Onderdonk.

Hence, since D v D, there have been a number of cases where shared residence has been awarded to children in spite of one parent's initial objections or continuing hostility including:

Of the 7, 361 men awarded the initial grade of the highest German combat honor of World War II, the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, 4, 777 were from the Army, making up 65 % of the total awarded.

The initial contracts for SIM Lite were awarded in 1998, totaling US $ 200 million.

He set up a construction company and came to Abdul Aziz ibn Saud's attention through construction projects, later being awarded contracts for major renovations at Mecca, where he made his initial fortune from exclusive rights to all mosque and other religious building construction not only in Saudi Arabia, but as far as Ibn Saud's influence reached.

In October 1998 two initial launch services contracts ( known as Buy 1 ) were awarded.

He was awarded the Air Medal for " Meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight as Commanding Officer of Patrol Squadron 54 during the initial selection and survey of US Army and Navy Bases in Newfoundland in September and October 1940.

The Thomas B. McCabe Jr. and Yvonne Motley McCabe Memorial Fellowship is awarded annually to graduates of the College, and provides a grant toward an initial year of study at the Harvard Business School, or at the University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania, or Stanford University.

The medal may also be awarded to U. S. civilians, but after the initial award, the civilian may only wear the miniature or the lapel pin depending on the occasion.

If they succeed in doing this they score a ' Conversion ', and the ' Behind ' is converted to a ' Goal ' - 3 points rather than he initial one are awarded.

It is awarded to U. S. Air Force service members on completion of initial accession training after August 14, 1974.