In August 2002, the Armenian government sold an 80 percent stake in the Armenian Electricity Network ( AEN ) to Midland Resources, a British offshore-registered firm which is said to have close Russian connections.

The Pacific Fur Company failed, however, and the fort and fur trade were sold to the British in 1813.

An unusual variant of the Electron was sold by British Telecom Business Systems as the BT Merlin M2105 Communications Terminal.

A copy of this first issue sold for £ 12, 100 on 16 March 2004, which was at the time thought to be the highest price ever paid for a British comic at an auction.

The museum ’ s first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton ( 1730 – 1803 ), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.

* Benin Bronzes-claimed by Nigeria, 30 pieces sold already by The British Museum privately in the 1960s

It has sold over nine million singles and albums and was the top single of a year in which the British Invasion, led by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, continued to dominate the U. S. charts.

Copies of British Standards are sold at the BSI Online Shop or can be accessed via subscription to British Standards Online ( BSOL ).

In 2000, the Bundaberg Rum company and distillery were sold to British company Diageo.

A thermos of beef tea was the favoured way to fend off the chill of winter matches for generations of British football enthusiasts ; to this day Bovril dissolved in hot water is sold in stadiums all over the United Kingdom.

He sold the company for £ 100, 000 at the end of 1971 to British businessman Bernie Ecclestone, Jochen Rindt's former manager and erstwhile owner of the Connaught team.

In 1933, the Soviet Government sold the Codex Sinaiticus for 100, 000 pounds to the British Museum in London, England.

British-built clipper ships were used for this trade, as were many American-built ships which were sold to British owners.

Today, scan the barcode ( usually EAN or Universal Product Code ( UPC )) for each item, retrieve the price from a database, calculate deductions for items on sale ( or, in British retail terminology, " special offer ", " multibuy " or " BOGOF "), calculate the sales tax or VAT, calculate differential rates for preferred customers, actualize inventory, time and date stamp the transaction, record the transaction in detail including each item purchased, record the method of payment, keep totals for each product or type of product sold as well as total sales for specified periods, and do other tasks as well.

Inspired by Babbage's difference engine plans, Per Georg Scheutz built several difference engines from 1855 onwards, one of which was sold to the British government in 1859.

After its first release, this book sold far better than any of Butler's other works — perhaps because the British public assumed that the anonymous author was some better-known figure ( the favorite being Lord Lytton, who had published The Coming Race two years previously ).

In Scotland, chips were first sold in Dundee, "... in the 1870s, that glory of British gastronomy – the chip – was first sold by Belgian immigrant Edward De Gernier in the city ’ s Greenmarket.

A British company, Safir Engineering, who made continuation GT40s in the 1980s owned the GT40 trademark at that time, and when they completed production, they sold the excess parts, tooling, design, and trademark to a small American company called Safir GT40 Spares based in Ohio.

The only writer to widely publish British grimoires in the early 19th century, Robert Cross Smith, released The Philosophical Merlin ( 1822 ) and The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century ( 1825 ), but neither sold well.

An improved Scheutzian calculation engine was sold to the British government and a later model was sold to the American government and these were used successfully in the production of logarithmic tables.

This is the only produce sold as Marmite in Australasia and the Pacific, whereas elsewhere in the world the British version predominates.

British Marmite was originally supplied in earthenware pots, but since the 1920s has been sold in glass jars of approximately the same shape.

Ownership of the track and infrastructure passed to Railtrack, whilst passenger operations were franchised to individual private sector operators ( originally there were 25 franchises ) and the freight services sold outright ( six companies were set up, but five of these were sold to the same buyer ).

The laboratory where polythene was discovered was sold off and the building became home to a variety of businesses including a go-kart track and paintballing, and the Winnington Works were divested to the newly formed company, Brunner Mond, in 1991.

After Ricard's death, the track was sold to Excelis, a company owned by Formula One promoter Bernie Ecclestone, in 1999.

In 1998, Union Pacific sold of the route's track through the Royal Gorge in an effort to preserve the scenic route.

The track was from a British stock music production library known as the Chappell Recorded Music Library which was sold through a New York agency called Emil Ascher.

The track was sold to Thai Railways and the 130 km Ban Pong – Namtok section relaid and is in use today.

This allows the company to track the product from the factory, to the warehouse, then to the store where the product is sold.

The band was also able to secure a small recording deal with Azra / Metal Storm Records that resulted in the 1984 four track EP Overkill, that quickly sold out, instantly pushing the band to the forefront of the fledgling thrash metal movement.

Since November 19, 2010, the channel is offered with an alternate Spanish-language audio feed, either via a separate channel as part of a Spanish-language network package sold by cable and satellite providers or via a separate audio track with the SAP option, depending on the system.

CSX divested of rail line from Evansville, IN to Okawville, IL to the Paducah and Louisville Railway ( PAL ), an operating entity of Four Rivers Transportation, Inc., in a transaction whereby CSX sold all track, ties and track equipment to PAL and provided a 20-year lease on the right-of-way.

The barge was sold and lost track of in the late 1990s.

It is not an easy business to track, but the scholar Phyllis Messenger notes that some antiquities traders have written articles denouncing the agreements, which suggests that it is reducing items sold to them.

In 1888 Lyon sold part of his land to the Durham and Northern Railroad for track to run through the town.

A portion of the land of Acomb manor was sold to the Great Northern Railway Company to allow right of way for the track.

Her second Arista album, 1980's No Night So Long sold 500, 000 U. S. copies and featured the title track which became a major success-hitting # 1 Adult Contemporary and # 23 on Billboard's Hot 100-and the album peaked at # 23 on the Billboard Albums Chart.

The title track was taken from the album of the same name which sold over 3 million copies internationally and earned Dionne an RIAA USA Gold record award for the album.

The album has sold more 14 million in worldwide The title track was released as a single in the UK and Ireland and reached # 63 in the UK and # 23 in Ireland.

" The track had already sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R. I. A. A.

Lucas Oil Raceway sold out every race in the 28 years it held a Nationwide race while offering exciting short track racing on the track, while many fans consider racing at the Brickyard " boring.

Despite the widespread support of music critics, the album sold poorly and soon disappeared-at least in the USA, although in the UK it remained fondly remembered, in part because of one track (" Wooden Wife ") being used on a popular CBS sampler album.

Ownership of the track and infrastructure passed to Railtrack, whilst passenger operations were franchised to individual private sector operators ( originally there were 25 franchises ) and the freight services sold outright.

Ownership of the track and infrastructure passed to Railtrack, passenger operations were franchised to individual private sector operators ( originally there were 25 franchises ) and the freight services sold outright ( six companies were set up, but five of these were sold to the same buyer ).