Where the microscope under visible light may show only vague shadows or nothing at all, ultraviolet illumination and subsequent translation into a color TV picture reveal a wealth of detail.

* Giving Pledge, pledge by Gates, Buffett and others to donate to charity at least half of their wealth

After Osiander's death in 1552, Albert favoured a preacher named Johann Funck, who, with an adventurer named Paul Skalić, exercised great influence over him and obtained considerable wealth at public expense.

On March 2, the circular formally filing the organization and capitalization ( at $ 1, 400, 000, 000 — 4 % of U. S. national wealth at the time ) of the United States Steel Corporation actually completed the contract.

A dismissive allusion in the text to the " wealth of Hungary " has suggested the hypothesis that it was written after 1184, at the time when Bela III of Hungary had sent to the French court a statement of his income and had proposed marriage to Marie's sister Marguerite of France, but before 1186, when his proposal was accepted.

An attempt at negotiations soon followed in which it is likely that Abd al-Rahman was offered the hand of al-Fihri's daughter in marriage and great wealth.

Madame Armfeldt is surprised, ruefully noting that she rejected love for material wealth at Fredrika's age.

The reality is that Micheline Musseli Pozzo di Borgo, a French aristocrat who at 20 was France's youngest lawyer ever, brought considerable wealth to her marriage to Lerner and lost most of it through him, including nearly $ 600, 000 from the sale of her Parisian apartment, which Lerner placed in investments that either failed or were looted by him during periods of financial desperation.

* Beowulf's landing, an awkward reception at first, and stay at Heorot, being begged to stay there to fight king Hrothgar's enemies paralleling Aeneas ' landing and stay at Carthage, again, awkward at first, including being begged to stay there to fight the queen's enemies, but the hero decides to leave in spite of being promised great wealth and privilege.

* Judgement on wicked Zion ( 3: 1 – 4 ): Israel's rulers are accused of gaining more wealth at the expense of the poor, by any means.

Numismatics as an academic discipline emerged in these centuries at the same time as coin collecting became a leisure pursuit of a growing middle class, eager to prove their wealth and sophistication.

He organized a meeting of kings at Kraków ( 1364 ) in which he exhibited the wealth of the Polish kingdom.

Polygyny, or men having multiple wives at once, is one of the most common marital arrangements represented in the Old Testament, yet scholars doubt that it was common among average Israelites because of the wealth needed to practice it.

Even in his better days, Luthor is highly ambitious for power and wealth, at one time noting that he shares his name with Alexander the Great.

Among these was Countess Margaret of Flanders who established the monastery of Lille, while Val-Duchesse at Oudergern near Brussels was built with the wealth of Adelaide of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant ( 1262 ).

This caused the human life span gradually to shorten, to the point where it now stands at 100 years, with human beauty, wealth, pleasure, and strength decreasing proportionately.

Most Americans assumed he was rich because of the well-known " glorified façade of wealth and grandeur " at Mount Vernon.

Situated at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea, adjacent to the Strait of Gibraltar ( one of the world's busiest shipping lanes ) and with over 7, 000 ship calls each year, Gibraltar is home to a wealth of shipping expertise and to many specialist companies offering a comprehensive range of support services, most notably the dockyard of Gibdock.

Thus began one of the most productive periods in Telemann's life: during his tenure at Eisenach he composed a wealth of instrumental music ( sonatas and concertos ), and numerous sacred works, which included four or five complete annual cycles of church cantatas, 50 German and Italian cantatas, and some 20 serenatas.

His experiences at Hyde's, where he worked a thirteen-hour day and slept in a dormitory with other apprentices, later inspired his novels The Wheels of Chance and Kipps, which portray the life of a draper's apprentice as well as providing a critique of society's distribution of wealth.

A prolonged agricultural depression in Britain at the end of the 19th century, together with the introduction in the 20th century of increasingly heavy levels of taxation on inherited wealth, put an end to agricultural land as the primary source of wealth for the upper classes.

As the graves of important men often contained a good amount of wealth, the draugr jealously guards his treasures, even after death.

He married Queen Constance of Sicily, and a death in his wife's family in 1194 gave him possession of the Kingdom of Sicily, a source of vast wealth.

The Isle of Man is a low tax economy with no capital gains tax, wealth tax, stamp duty, death duty or inheritance tax

During the reign of Almoravids, the position of the Jews was apparently free of significant abuses, but after another Berber dynasty, Almohads, conquered Córdoba in 1148 they have abolished the dhimma status ( i. e. state protection of life and wealth ) in some of their territories which threatened the Jewish and Christian communities with the choice of conversion to Islam, death, or exile.

Grand Duchess Elizabeth had departed her family after the death of her husband in 1905 and donated all her wealth to the poor and became a nun, but was nonetheless killed.

However, in 1901, she transferred $ 30 million in assets, nearly all her remaining wealth, to the university ; upon her death in 1905, she left the university nearly $ 4 million of her remaining $ 7 million.

Facts about Boniface's life and death as well as his work became widely known, since there is a wealth of material available — a number of vitae, especially the near-contemporary Vita Bonifatii auctore Willibaldi, and legal documents, possibly some sermons, and above all his correspondence.

" So God said to him, ' Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice, I will do what you have asked ...'" ( 1 Kings 3: 11-12 ) The Hebrew Bible also states that: " The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.

" Under this definition, any increase in wealth — whether through wages, benefits, bonuses, sale of stock or other property at a profit, bets won, lucky finds, awards of punitive damages in a lawsuit, qui tam actions — are all within the definition of income, unless the Congress makes a specific exemption, as it has for items such as life insurance proceeds received by reason of the death of the insured party, gifts, bequests, devises and inheritances, and certain scholarships.

That, she probably did not do out of spite to her son: for, whilst Arthur lived economically well-off, having not only preserved but even doubled his share of his father's wealth, Adele, as Johanna foresaw, would pass financial difficulties after her mother's death — something in which the spendthrift Johanna played no small role.

A story later emerged that, after Crassus ' death, the Parthians poured molten gold into his mouth as a symbol of his thirst for wealth.

Upon the death of Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet in 1749, the wealth left by his grandfather, Sir George Downing, who served both Cromwell and Charles II and built 10 Downing Street ( a door formerly from Number 10 is in use in the college ), was applied by his will.

The Culture is characterized by being a post-scarcity society ( meaning that its advanced technologies provide practically limitless material wealth and comforts for everyone for free, having all but abolished the concept of possessions ), by having overcome almost all physical constraints on life ( including disease and death ) and by being an almost totally egalitarian, stable society without the use of any form of force or compulsion, except where necessary to protect others.

By providing close kin with inherited wealth, an individual may improve his or her kin ’ s reproductive opportunities and thus increase his or her own inclusive fitness even after death.

Altered life situations including death of a partner, relationship breakdown, children starting school or leaving home, death of a child, re-partnering and re-marriage, increased wealth ( which previously factored against having more children ), mean that the psychological associations and effects of vasectomy are not only those which immediately follow the vasectomy, but may be ongoing throughout a person's life history.

The Victorian attitude to death and its presentation led to the creation of a wealth of Gothic tombs and buildings.

Plutarch then anonymously relates that Marius, having gone into a fit of passion in which he announced a delusion that he was in command of the Mithridatic War, began to act as he would have on the field of battle ; finally, ever an ambitious man, Marius lamented, on his death bed, that he had not achieved all of which he was capable, despite his having acquired great wealth and having been chosen consul more times than any man before him.

Like Pluto, Dis Pater eventually became associated with death and the underworld because the wealth of the earth — gems and precious metals — was considered in the domain of the Greco-Roman underworld.

Thus Indra, the chief of the devas, was regarded as the regent of the east ; Agni, the fire, was in the same way associated with the southeast ; Yama, lord of death and justice with the south ; Surya, the sun, with the southwest ; Varuna, originally the representative of the all-embracing heaven ( atmosphere ), now the god of the ocean, with the west ; Vayu ( or Pavana ), the wind, with the northwest ; Kubera, the god of wealth, with the north ; and Soma with the northeast.

DePauw donated a large portion of his wealth shortly before his death to the now defunct Indiana Asbury University who renamed their school in his honor in January 1884.

In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville argues that the abolition of the laws of primogeniture and entail in the law of inheritance of private property ( as opposed to inheritance of a monarchy ) result in the more rapid division of land and thus force landed people to seek wealth outside the family estate in order to maintain their previous standard of living, accelerating the death of the landed aristocracy and also quickening the shift to democracy.

Two sets of death duties in the 1940s, and the nationalization of their coal mines, greatly reduced the wealth of the Fitzwilliams, and most of the contents of the house were dispersed, in auction sales in 1948, 1986 and 1998, though many remain in the family, with many works loaned to museums by the " Trustees of the Fitzwilliam Estates ".

He fell out of favor with the young king, probably because of his extravagant displays of wealth, and the king had him imprisoned from 1661 until his death in 1680.