As a result of the new outlook for turnpikes, investors who bought toll-road bonds when these securities ranked as outright speculations are now finding new hope for their investments.

* 1639 – Madras ( now Chennai ), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

The land which is now Columbus was bought by General John Tipton and Luke Bonesteel in 1820.

The evidence is found in two early maps, one made by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel in about 1522, the very first map to show the Falklands, the other a French copy of a Portuguese map bought in Lisbon by André Thévet ( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

Callamy who bought it at the decease of Mr George Sale ... and now gave me at the decease of Mr John Nickolls, 1745 ".

Jacob then arrived in Shechem, where he bought a parcel of land, now identified as Joseph's Tomb.

He bought an estate on the Hudson River ( now Audubon Park ).

As Sweyn had by now been bought off with a large Danegeld, Malcolm took his army home.

The son of the man who bought the unfinished palace on the Grand Canal ( now Ca ' Rezzonico ) and finished its construction, Carlo the pontiff was notorious for his rampant nepotism.

' True ' stock car racing, which consists of only street vehicles that can be bought by general public, is sometimes now called Street Stock, Pure Stock, Showroom Stock, or U-Car racing.

A team led by Henri de France working at Compagnie Française de Télévision ( later bought by Thomson, now Technicolor ) invented SECAM.

It is now part of SVP Worldwide, which also owns the Pfaff and Husqvarna Viking brands, which is in turn owned by Kohlberg & Company, which bought Singer in 2004.

However, dried cactus can be bought and sold legally, unlike raw " magic " ( psilocybin containing ) mushrooms, which are now illegal.

When he was eight years old his father gave him a large chemistry set which was enhanced over the next few years with extra chemicals including a bottle of concentrated sulphuric acid, bought from a pharmacy, at a time when pharmacists were less regulated than now.

* Chicago Gas Company, bought by Peoples Gas Light in 1897, now an operating subsidiary of Integrys Energy Group.

On 30 June 1810 the French army handed over the former principality to the what was now the Kingdom of Bavaria, which it had bought from Napoleon for 15 million francs.

The rights to the game were initially licensed to Selchow and Righter in 1982, then to Parker Brothers ( now part of Hasbro ) in 1988, after initially being turned down by the Virgin Group ; in 2008, Hasbro bought out the rights in full, for US $ 80 million.

Bryant told Larner he had been surfing and had bought a property called Fogg Lodge and was now looking to buy some cattle from Larner.

On 12 June 1969, Philip Morris ( now Altria ) bought Miller from W. R. Grace for $ 130 million, outbidding PepsiCo.

In 1986, the Syndicate was bought by publishers Simon & Schuster ; the Drew books are now handled by Mega-Books, a New York book packager.

After that, he persuaded the Russians that there was now a new and significant threat on the Black Sea, and they bought two.

By 1961, Kroc had bought out the brothers and created what is now the modern McDonald's Corporation.

* Kujawiak Hydrobudowa Włocławek-men's football team, winner of regional 3rd league group 2004, promoted to play in 2nd league in season 2004 / 2005, now Zawisza Bydgoszcz, club bought by Bydgoszcz.

The East Side includes the Benicia Arsenal, a former United States Army armory, which was bought by the city and is now used for a variety of purposes, most notably as live-work spaces for artists.

The AC Cobra and the Lotus 7 are particularly popular examples, the right to manufacture the Lotus 7 now being owned by Caterham Cars who bought the rights to the car from Lotus founder Colin Chapman in 1973.

Miriam was stopped at the Taliesin gate, and William Weston, now the estate foreman, came out to parley.

The state is now faced with the immediate question of raising new taxes whether on utilities, real estate or motor vehicles, he said, `` and I challenge Mitchell to tell the people where he stands on the tax issue ''.

Volta retired in 1819 to his estate in Camnago, a frazione of Como now called Camnago Volta after him, where he died on 5 March 1827 .< ref >

Other properties on the estate include Birkhall, formerly home to Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, and used now by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall for their summer holidays.

Brown recently purchased shares of the team owned by the estate of co-founder Austin Knowlton and is now the majority owner of the Bengals franchise.

A number of career specific courses such as veterinary assisting, medical billing and coding, real estate license, bookkeeping and many more are now available to students through the Internet.

Twelve-year-old Edward was now the 17th Earl of Oxford and Lord Great Chamberlain of England, and heir to an estate whose annual income, though assessed at approximately £ 2, 500, may have run as high as £ 3, 500.

For two and a half years, Hoover attended Friends Pacific Academy ( now George Fox University ), and then worked as an office assistant in his uncle's real estate office, the Oregon Land Company, in Salem, Oregon.

In addition to the now booming tourism and building / real estate markets, Seychelles has renewed its commitment to developing its financial services sector.

Prokofiev was born in 1891 in Sontsovka ( now Krasne in the Donetsk Oblast province of eastern Ukraine, an isolated rural estate in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate ) of the Russian Empire.

Soon enough, the strict building rules decided under Louis XIV were not respected anymore, real estate speculation flourished, and the lots that had been given for free under Louis XIV were now on the market for hefty prices.

To take advantage of these higher contributions, many vendors now offer Solo-401 ( k ) plans or Individual ( k ) plans, which can be administered as a Self-Directed 401 ( k ), allowing for investment into real estate, mortgage notes, tax liens, private companies, and virtually any other investment.

The Cantigny estate is now a park and museum facility, open to the public.

In the early 1780s he worked for the British lieutenant-governor of Michilimackinac on an estate at what is now the city of St. Clair, Michigan, before moving to settle at the mouth of the Chicago River.

The gift from the estate of the long-time benefactor allows the university to expand its footprint to now comprise 2, 350 acres across all its campuses, and to consider its long-term potential uses.

In 1736, the age when they had to start service was raised from 15 to 20, service was now for 25 years not life and families with more than one son could keep one to manage the estate.

* Villa Vizcaya, an Italian Renaissance-style estate in Miami, Florida, United States ; now a Museum and Gardens

This district is one of the oldest in Oakland, growing up around the old Peralta estate ( now a city park ).

In the same year he inherited the estate of his granduncle, Richard Brocklesby, which made him financially independent, and in 1799 he established himself as a physician at 48 Welbeck Street, London ( now recorded with a blue plaque ).

Other notable early settlers included the inter-related Murray and Gibbes families, who owned the Yarralumla estate — now the site of the official residence of the Governor-General of Australia — from the 1830s through to 1881.

He moved to the colonies in 1773 and purchased an estate in Virginia, in an area now part of West Virginia, which he named Prato Rio.

Became a real estate developer after retiring from the NFL and is now a candidate for California Secretary of State in 2010.

He also built an important country estate in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera, including the Villa des Cèdres, which is now a botanical garden.

He is redeemed by his friendship with Brother François, and following the friar's death he returns to Italy to find Bonnyfeather has died and his housekeeper, Faith Paleologus ( now married to Don Luis ), will inherit the man's estate fortune unless Anthony goes to Paris to claim his inheritance.