John the Conqueror was an African prince who was sold as a slave in the Americas.

The software is developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc., first released in December 1982 by Autodesk in the year following the purchase of the first form of the software by Autodesk founder, John Walker.

Bovril is the trademarked name of a thick, salty meat extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnston and sold in a distinctive, bulbous jar.

In 1884 Eckert sold the company to John H. Patterson, who renamed the company the National Cash Register Company and improved the cash register by adding a paper roll to record sales transactions, thereby creating the receipt.

On 4 July 1591 Oxford sold the Great Garden property at Aldgate to John Wolley and Francis Trentham.

Huizenga soon sold the club to John Henry, a commodities trader from Boca Raton, during the off-season.

In order to bring the car more " in house " and lessening partnership with English firms, Ford Advanced Vehicles was sold to John Wyer and the new car was designed by Ford's studios and produced by Ford's subsidiary Kar Kraft under Ed Hull.

When John Beck sold the King Kong vs. Prometheus script to Toho ( which became King Kong vs. Godzilla ), he was given exclusive rights to produce a version of the film for release in non-Asian territories.

The land and financial assets of the Harmony Society were sold off by the few remaining members under the leadership of John Duss and his wife, Susanna, by the year 1906.

Also attending the same meeting were Senator Dick Durbin and John Boehner ; the same day ( trade effective the next day ), Durbin sold mutual-fund shares worth $ 42, 696, and reinvested it all with Warren Buffett.

John continued to sell charters for new towns, including the planned town of Liverpool, and charters were sold for markets across the kingdom and in Gascony.

The castle remained the property of the Clarendons until 1937, when Lord Clarendon found the maintenance of the castle too expensive and sold Kenilworth to the industrialist Sir John Siddeley.

He sold both Land's End and John o ' Groats to businessman Graham Ferguson Lacey in 1991.

According to John Iliffe, " The worst crises were in the 1680s, when famine extended from the Senegambian coast to the Upper Nile and ' many sold themselves for slaves, only to get a sustenance ', and especially in 1738 – 56, when West Africa's greatest recorded subsistence crisis, due to drought and locusts, reportedly killed half the population of Timbuktu.

In 1922 John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, had sold the entire site and it was bought by the Cardiff Arms Park Company Limited for GB £ 30, 000, it was then leased to the Cardiff Athletic Club ( cricket and rugby sections ) for 99 years at a cost of £ 200 per annum.

Lebman then sold these " baby machine guns " to Prohibition Era gangsters, the most notable being John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.

John Scott's prosperity came from the ownership of a small Plymouth brewery which he inherited from his father and which he subsequently sold.

John Scott, having sold the brewery and invested the proceeds unwisely, had lost all his capital and was now virtually bankrupt.

) Also in the Thirties, RCA sold the modernistic RCA Victor M Special, a polished aluminum portable record player designed by John Vassos.

In 1878, John Moses Browning patented arguably the greatest single-shot rifle ever produced: after Browning sold his design to Winchester it was brought out as the Model 1885 Winchester Single Shot Rifle.

Schryver sold her in 1810, for $ 175, to John Dumont of West Park, New York.

Lucien Gaulard and John Dixon Gibbs first exhibited a device with an open iron core called a " secondary generator " in London in 1882, then sold the idea to the Westinghouse company in the United States.

A descendant of Sir Robert, Sir John Buchanan-Jardine, sold his family's 51 % holding in Jardine, Matheson and Co. for $ 84 million at the then prevailing exchange rate in 1959.

The Duke of York sold the area that is today New Jersey to John Berkeley and George Carteret for a proprietary colony, separate from the projected New York.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

In 1962 Hawks made Hatari !, again with John Wayne as a big game hunter in Africa.

Ehrlich and his colleagues ( including John Holdren, later an advisor to President Barack Obama for Science and Technology ) picked five metals that they thought would undergo big price increases: chromium, copper, nickel, tin, and tungsten.

In the 1830s, John Jacob Astor foresaw that the next big boom would be the build-up of New York, which would soon emerge as one of the world ’ s greatest cities.

As part of a major recruitment drive North secured the services of several big name stars including Barry Davis from Essendon and Doug Wade ( Geelong ), John Rantall ( South Melbourne ), Barry Cable ( Perth ).

In 1999, the Come on Over album was remixed for the European market as a pop album with less country instrumentation and actually gave her the big breakthrough in Europe she and her producer husband ( Robert John " Mutt " Lange ) were looking for.

In the original script, the Dude's car was a Chrysler LeBaron, as Dowd once owned, but that car was not big enough to fit John Goodman so the Coens changed it to a Ford Torino.

" However, John Squire later turned down any notion of a potential reunion, saying, " When it's just a get-together for a big payday and everyone gets their old clothes out, that seems tragic to me ".

* John Jonides, a big role in Cognitive Neurosciences by Beebrite

Clubmans provided much entertainment at club-racing level from the 1960s into the 1990s and John Webb revived interest in big sports prototypes with Thundersports in the 1980s.

The Smiths were formed in early 1982 by Steven Patrick Morrissey, a writer who was a big fan of the New York Dolls and briefly fronted punk rock band The Nosebleeds ; and John Maher, a guitarist and songwriter.

The Scottish Reformation also played a big role in the town with the sacking of the Houses of the Greyfriars and Blackfriars, after a sermon given by John Knox in St John's Kirk in 1559.

The first Persian Gulf War in 1991 was a watershed event for CNN that catapulted the channel past the " big three " American networks for the first time in its history, largely due to an unprecedented, historical scoop: CNN was the only news outlet with the ability to communicate from inside Iraq during the initial hours of the Coalition bombing campaign, with live reports from the al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad by reporters Bernard Shaw, John Holliman, and Peter Arnett.

Before production, John Ford shopped the project around to several Hollywood studios, all of which turned him down because big budget Westerns were out of vogue, and because Ford insisted on using John Wayne in a key role in the film.

Later bandleaders pioneered the performance of various Brazilian and Afro-Cuban styles with the traditional big band instrumentation, and big bands led by arranger Gil Evans, saxophonist John Coltrane ( on the album Ascension from 1965 ) and electric bassist Jaco Pastorius introduced cool jazz, free jazz and jazz fusion, respectively, to the big band domain.

Debuting on August 4, 2007 was Grand Slam, a game show involving big winners from other shows, including Ken Jennings, John Carpenter, and Brad Rutter.

" John Ford — who worked with Wayne on many films ( such as The Searchers, Stagecoach, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance )— was so impressed with Wayne's performance that he is reported to have said, " I didn ’ t know the big son of a bitch could act!

" Molly Ringwald had also wanted to play Sloane, but according to Ringwald, " John wouldn't let me do it: he said that the part wasn't big enough for me.

These men, along with another big investor, James John Hagerman, laid the plans for a new town on the West bank of the Pecos River.

Jane Small continued to live in Paddington after her second husband's death, and her manor house was big enough to have been let to Sir John Popham, the attorney general, in the 1580s.

Pecos Bill was a late addition to the " big man " idea of characters, such as Paul Bunyan or John Henry.