Finally, the king arranged for Stephen to marry Matilda in 1125, the daughter and only heiress of the Count of Boulogne, who owned both the important continental port of Boulogne and vast estates in the north-west and south-east of England.

The network physically linked individual radio stations, nearly all of which were independent radio owned and operated station, in a vast chain, NBC's audio signal thus transmitted from station to station to listeners across the United States.

In the United Kingdom, thousands of villages were abandoned during the Middle Ages, as a result of Black Death, climate change, revolts, and enclosure, the process by which vast amounts of farmland became privately owned.

Arguing that the trend towards centralization of Canadian publishing in Toronto has led to a monopolistic control of the Giller Prize by Bertelsmann and its authors, Henighan wrote, " Year after year the vast majority of the books shortlisted for the Giller came from the triumvirate of publishers owned by the Bertelsmann Group: Knopf Canada, Doubleday Canada and Random House Canada.

In Russia, the working class, although a small minority in a predominantly peasant based society, were organised in vast factories owned by the capitalist class, and into large working class districts.

As a result, Victor Amadeus expected compensation in the form of a territory which had been owned by the vast Spanish empire.

It was during this period that the State confiscated and sold off vast tracts of Basilicata's territory formerly owned by the Church.

In return he received lands and was married to Matilda in 1125, the daughter and only heiress of the Count of Boulogne, who owned the important continental port of Boulogne and vast estates in the north-west and south-east of England.

Al Capone actually owned a house overlooking the vast lake front.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the city became the home of a collection of extremely wealthy Southern planters, who owned vast tracts of land in the surrounding lowlands of Mississippi and Louisiana where they grew large crops of cotton and sugar cane using slave labor.

During the middle of the 19th century, Morse owned vast tracts of land in the Ridgefield section of the borough.

A vast percentage of these are owned and run by Hispanics of various countries, and feature their ethnic food.

At that time vast tracts of land were owned by a few individuals and farmed by tenants.

Briarcliff Manor was originally part of the vast land holdings of Dutchman Frederick Philipse, who owned the stretch of land spanning from Spuyten Duyvil in the Bronx to the Croton River.

A vast majority of the land that comprises Mentor-On-The-Lake was originally owned and deeded as the Dickey-Moore tract and extended all the way south beyond U. S. Route 20 in the city of Mentor.

The vast amount of federally owned and leased lands have given cattle ranchers and sheep ranchers good grazing for over 120 years in the area.

Ulybyshev was considered the leading musical figure and patron in Nizhny Novgorod ; he owned a vast musical library and was the author of a biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Ripon's proximity to Fountains Abbey where the Cistercians had a long tradition of sheep farming and owned vast grazing land, was a considerable advantage.

Many of these shops have undergone vast change since 2004 as a result of bigger companies buying out the locally owned shops.

The United Fruit Company ( UFCO ) owned vast tracts of land in the Caribbean lowlands.

The railroad companies, who owned vast tracts of lands () granted in return for building the lines, did not agree with his opinion.

Much of the land along the coast is privately owned or has been donated to the state park system, while the vast Los Padres National Forest, the Ventana Wilderness, and Fort Hunter Liggett Military Reservation encompass most of the inland areas.

There are approximately 11, 000 business jets in the worldwide fleet with the vast majority of them based in the United States or owned by US companies.

The town of Randolph sits on the vast tracts of land which were originally owned by the Holland Land Company.

In 1967, Mr. Reeves contacted Washington and Lee about making " a small gift ," which turned out to be a collection of porcelain so vast that it filled two entire houses which he and his wife owned in Providence, Rhode Island.

The Song government confiscated portions of land owned by the landed gentry in order to raise revenue for these projects, an act which caused dissension and loss of loyalty amongst leading members of Song society but did not stop the Song's defensive preparations.

In consequence of which, religious houses in the 16th century controlled appointment to about two fifths of all parish benefices in England, disposed of about half of all ecclesiastical income, and owned around a quarter of the nation's landed wealth.

* Clare Park on Clare Road, was an estate owned by the then local landed gentry, the McGildownys.

Earhart landed at the original Anderson County Airport, founded in 1928 on the highest land Anderson County owned.

When the first flight landed at London, a Kuwaiti lawyer had the General Director, Kifah Hassan's documents and passport seized as well as the plane seized too, this however failed as the plane is owned by Swedish company, Tor Air.

The British and Americans landed in force but far enough west that the Germans were able to invade Tunisia ( owned by France ) and make it their base of operations.

As landed aristocrats, the Junkers owned most of the arable land in Prussia.

While the word " yeoman " in normal use meant a small farmer who owned his land, Yeomanry officers were drawn from the nobility or the landed gentry, and many of the men were the officers ' tenants or had other forms of obligation to the officers.

Although a lifelong courtier, Claude Favre was widely known by the name of one of the landed estates he owned as seigneur of Vaugelas and baron of Peroges.

In that era, property, including forests, were owned by the landed barons and knights.

The land-grant system had broken down, and Mongol-favoured officials, along with a handful of landed gentry, owned the vast majority of agricultural land, which was worked by tenant farmers and bondsmen.

The commune probably acquired its name from an old landed estate in its vicinity owned by a knight subordinate to William the Conqueror, Anchetil de Greye.

The newspaper was established in 1842, less than 50 years after Moses Cleaveland landed on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in The Flats, and is currently owned by Advance Publications ( Newhouse Newspapers ).

These types of complaints landed US West in court yet again, offering the complex question of whether or not the government could legally offer the sale of owned property to other companies in the event of deregulation.

One of the franchise offices of LJ Hooker in Hampton Park, a suburb of Melbourne, is currently involved in a class action that has been taken out by over 200 former customers, who allege that the previous owner of the branch ( which is now owned by the previous owner's wife ) backdated sale contracts which has landed the customers with over $ 1. 3 million in additional stamp duty charges.

So while yeoman farmers owned enough land to support a comfortable lifestyle, they nevertheless farmed it themselves and were excluded from the " landed gentry " because they worked for a living, and were thus " in trade " as it was termed.

After the section dealing with the current owner of the property, there usually appeared a section entitled Lineage which listed, not only ancestors of the owner, but ( so far as known ) every male line descendant of those ancestors, thus including many people in the ranks of the " Landed Gentry " families who had never owned an acre in their lives but who might share in the status of their eponymous kin as connected, however remotely to the landed gentry or to a county family.

It was said that he owned so much landed property that he could cross the breadth of the Republic while spending every night in one of his own manors.

1 in 2002, and landed a record deal with the independent label Get Low Recordz owned by JT the Bigga Figga.

1 in 2002, and landed a record deal with the independent label Get Low Recordz owned by JT the Bigga Figga.

Despite this the land was not owned by the mir ; the land was the legal property of the 100, 000 or so landowners ( pomeshchiks, an equivalent " landed gentry ") and the inhabitants, as serfs, were not allowed to leave the property where they were born.

It was said that he owned so much landed property that he could cross the breadth of the Commonwealth while spending every night in one of his own manors.

It was such a chance meeting while on leave, with Rajan Matthew who is the veteran Malayalam actor Jose Prakash's son, who owned a dry cleaning shop in Cochin, that eventually landed him a role in the movie Shapa Moksham.

He was also quite wealthy, as he both owned a landed estate, including a native town, and financed his expedition to Mexico.