In the spring and early summer of that year she met a wealthy foreign tycoon who took her to France, where she later met a very wealthy man and toured all Europe with him.

One night in September 1939 they took him to a large house owned by " Old Dorothy " Clutterbuck, a wealthy local woman, where he was made to strip naked and taken through an initiation ceremony.

Later she became a local teacher in Louisiana and took up residence, with her children, at the home of a wealthy plantation owner.

In 1724, his father took Sterne to Roger's wealthy brother, Richard, so that Sterne could attend Hipperholme Grammar School near Halifax ; Sterne never saw his father again as Roger was ordered to Jamaica where he died of a fever in 1731.

Ninon took a succession of notable and wealthy lovers, including the king's cousin the Great Condé, Gaston de Coligny, and François, duc de La Rochefoucauld.

He expressed some regret that he took advantage of the relaxed rules that allowed greater concentration of media ownership, and raised concerns about the quality of information and debate in an environment where the news is controlled by only a few wealthy corporations and individuals.

Upon becoming wealthy, Prinze took martial arts lessons from Robert Wall, a student of Bruce Lee, who appeared in Enter the Dragon and Return of the Dragon.

In the second half of the 18th century, many wealthy English people took to spending the winter in Nice, enjoying the panorama along the coast.

Accounts vary about what happened to the diamond during the years 1902-1907 ; one account suggested that it lay in the Frankel safe during these years while the jewelers took it out periodically to show it to wealthy Americans ; a rival account, probably invented to help add " mystery " to the Hope Diamond story, suggested that some persons had bought it but apparently sold it back to Frankel.

Encouraged to study music by his father, he was sponsored as a young composer by Sir Peter Beckford, a wealthy Englishman who took him to England to advance his studies.

Soon afterwards Richard Pankhurst left the Liberal Party after a wealthy group of pro-imperialist members took power.

While serving Theophilitzes, he visited the city of Patras, where he gained the favor of Danielis, a wealthy woman who took him into her household and endowed him with a fortune.

Emotions ran high for many years following the ' Johnson County Cattle War ' as some viewed the large and wealthy ranchers as heroes who took justice into their own hands in order to defend their rights, while others saw the WSGA as heavy-handed vigilantes running roughshod over the law of the land.

This downsizing took place gradually, allowing the city to court new investment in other industries, avoiding the fate of many post-industrial cities and keeping it a very wealthy and prosperous area home of many high-income executives.

His topical songs took aim at the complacency and indolence of wealthy playboys and the upper class (" A House in the Country ", " Sunny Afternoon "), the heedless ostentation of a self-indulgent spendthrift nouveau riche (" Most Exclusive Residence For Sale "), and even the mercenary nature of the music business itself (" Session Man ").

The Plan of Ayala also invoked the name of Benito Juárez, one of Mexico's great leaders, and compared the taking of land from the wealthy to Juarez's actions when he took land from the church in the 1860s.

As evidenced by Jefferson's father-in-law, John Wayles, wealthy Virginia widowers frequently took enslaved women as concubines.

In the end, most who took up the call were not knights, but peasants who were not wealthy and had little in the way of fighting skills, in an outpouring of a new emotional and personal piety that was not easily harnessed by the ecclesiastical and lay aristocracy.

Magnolia grew rapidly in the 1860s, and in the late nineteenth century Magnolia served as a popular small-town resort for wealthy New Orleanians, who took trains north from New Orleans to enjoy Magnolia's fresh air and sparkling creeks.

From Chris's comments about art, Kitty believes him to be a wealthy painter, adding, " To think I took you for a cashier.

Tarquinius took the wealthy town of Suessa Pometia, the spoils of which he used to construct the great Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus.

Many processualists took this further and criticised the fact that archaeologists from wealthy, western countries were studying and writing the histories of poorer nations in the second and third worlds.

At least 25 coup attempts took place during his presidency, mostly led by wealthy conservative military officers.

The older men would be there at noon, and maybe rest for a time before they took their guns off to the creek or drove down the road towards town.

" Starting at age 15, he took a job working for clockmaker Seth Thomas in the nearby town of Plymouth.

Ancus Marcius marched from Rome with a newly levied army and took the Latin town of Politorium ( situated near the town of Lanuvium ) by storm.

When the other Latins subsequently occupied the empty town of Politorium, Ancus took the town again and demolished it.

Several engagements took place outside the town and the Romans were eventually victorious.

The chief resided at the town of Nowgong, at the foot of the hill-fortress of Ajaigarh, from which the state took its name.

For example, in the 1543 Siege of Nice the Ottoman forces led by Barbarossa conquered and pillaged the town itself and took many captives-but the city castle held out, due to which the townspeople were accounted the victors.

When asked which of his stories was a favorite in several interviews Barks cited the ten-pager in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 146 ( Nov. 1952 ) in which Donald tells the story of the chain of unfortunate events that took place when he owned a chicken farm in a town which subsequently was renamed Omelet.

The railway line to Kingswear was opened in 1864, the original plans for the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway line took the line across a bridge and into the town.

As soon as Elihu Yale took over the administration of Fort St George on July 26, 1687, he implemented an order dated January 14, 1685 which required the English at Fort St George to make all attempts at procurement of the town of St Thome on lease.

In central Sicily, they took the town of Mytistraton, which they had attacked twice previously.

Fiesole is sometimes misinterpreted as being part of his formal name, but it was merely the name of the town where he took his vows as a Dominican friar, and was used by contemporaries to separate him from other Fra Giovannis.

Only a few scenes were actually filmed in Åmål, but these were not included in the final version: the main shooting took place in the nearby town of Trollhättan, location of Film i Väst's ( the company that produced the film ) film studios.

In addition to the Swedish officers, a 800-1, 000-strong " Swedish Brigade ", led by Hjalmar Frisell, took part in the battles of Tampere and those fought in the area to the south of the town.

The actual battle took place in mountainous country north of the town of Adwa.

The Castilians took the Upper Rock from where the town was bombarded.

Finally, the initiative of Juan Alonso de Guzmán, 1st Duke of Medina Sidonia, succeeded and he took possession of the town as personal property.

* 1502 2 January – Garcilaso de la Vega took possession of the town on behalf of the Queen Isabella I of Castile.

* 1704 4 August – The Governor Diego de Salinas surrendered the town to Prince George of Hesse, who took it in the name of Archduke, as Charles III, king of Castile and Aragon.

Geneva was a border town, fortified against the Celtic tribe Helvetii, when the Romans took it in 121 BC.

In time it took on the typical shape of a Basque town, comprising a series of parallel streets ( Goyenkale, Azokekale, Artekale and Barrenkale ) and a transverse street called Santa María, with a church at each end of the built-up area.

Once this came about the expansion of the town took place, to the west, since there was little space left in the valley.

On 22 November 1831 in Lyon ( the second largest city in France ) the silk workers revolted and took over the town hall in protest of recent salary reductions and working conditions.