Land speculators also contributed to this by buying land cheap and selling it for expensive prices.

Land prices skyrocketed and Riverton's subdivisions expanded.

Land prices have risen dramatically in recent years, resulting in the subdivision of pastures that once served dairy farms and mid-size ranches.

In 1853, the Island government passed the Land Purchase Act which empowered them to purchase lands from those owners who were willing to sell, and then resell the land to settlers for low prices.

Land prices were rapidly increasing due to the Japanese asset price bubble, inflation increased at the highest rate since 1975, unemployment reached a record high at 3. 2 %, bankruptcies were rife, and there was political rancor over LDP-proposed tax reform.

In the 1880s the long boom culminated in a frenzy of speculation and rapid inflation of land prices known as the Land Boom.

Land prices in the area have increased sharply, but despite its increased appeal to professionals, Kensington still remains a predominantly working class, immigrant community.

Land grants to the railroads meant they could sell tracts for family farms ( 80 to 200 acres ) at low prices with extended credit.

* King of Sand Land-As the current ruler of Sand Land the king makes enormous profit by selling bottled water at high prices.

Land prices in the same period dropped dramatically, as the farm was bought for £ 11, 165 in 1858 and sold for only £ 1, 800 in 1899, losing 84 % of its value.

Land prices have risen considerably since 2001, with The Grove long regarded the most prestigious street in the suburb.

* Land values can be estimated by using recent prices for similar plots of land sold in the area.

Land prices on what would become the shoreline had already jumped to $ 1, 000 an acre ; summer developments sprang up almost immediately.

Land prices needed to be high enough so that workers who saved to buy land of their own remained in the workforce long enough to avoid a labour shortage.

When oil prices spiked in 2007, Vintage notified the U. S. Bureau of Land Management of its intentions to find out if oil is contained in the Carrizo Plain.

Land prices contributed much more to the price increases than did structures.

Land would be available to all who need it and at reasonable prices.

Land prices around Yaowarat Road have always been one of the most expensive in Bangkok and Thailand due to limited land which is mostly owned by prominent Thai-Chinese families who are often leaders in their respective industries.

The " classic " Datsun logo, based on the Flag of Japan and Japan's Names of Japan | nickname as the " Land of the Rising Sun ".

* Roads In Japan, from Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism ( MLIT )-English and Japanese website, link refers specifically to 5 PDF chapters-as well as a reference chapter-on road history, statistics, maps, construction and advanced road technologies in Japan ( graphics throughout, 41 total pages ).

* Shirahama Energy Land, Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan

* Land Walker ( a machine developed in Japan that imitates a bipedal mecha )

Books by Percival Lowell on the Orient include Chosön: The Land of the Morning Calm ( 1886, Boston ), Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan ( 1891 ) and Occult Japan, or the Way of the Gods ( 1894 ); the latter from his third and final trip to the region.

: Aeronautical Information Publication ( AIP ) is provided by Japan Aeronautical Information Service Center, under the authority of Japan Civil Aviation Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan.

In the versions of the sutra widely known in China, Vietnam, Korea and Japan, Dharmakāra's eighteenth vow was that any being in any universe desiring to be born into Amitābha's Pure Land and calling upon his name even as few as ten times will be guaranteed rebirth there.

* Land of the Rising Sun, a name for Japan

In Japan, The Japan Coast Guard is under the oversight of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and is responsible for the protection the coast-lines of Japan.

Super Mario Land marked Mario's first appearance on the Game Boy and was a launch title for the Game Boy in Japan, North America and Europe.

* Feudal Japan in Land of the Rising Sun

Land management became the primary occupation of the aristocracy, not so much because direct control by the imperial family or central government had declined but more from strong family solidarity and a lack of a sense of Japan as a single nation.

* Japan: The first land reform, called the Land Tax Reform or was passed in 1873 as a part of the Meiji Restoration.

The term is used to describe both the Pure Land soteriology of Mahāyāna Buddhism, which may be better understood as Pure Land traditions, and the separate Pure Land sects that developed in Japan ; in other countries and times, it formed part of the basis of Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions.

Pure Land oriented practices and concepts are found within basic Mahāyāna Buddhist cosmology, and form an important component of the Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Tibet.

In Japan, however, Pure Land Buddhism also became an independent school in its own right as can be seen in the Jōdo-shū and Jōdo Shinshū schools.

Finally, however, the arrangements were made and we drove out into the bush in a Land Rover.

Amalric and Guy were sons of Hugh VIII of Lusignan, who had himself campaigned in the Holy Land in the 1160s.

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

Along with the secret history, many historical events portrayed in the series were anachronistic ( for example, the last Crusade to the Holy Land ended in 1291 ); this poetic licence would continue in the subsequent Blackadders.

Land estates were confiscated by the government, fragmented, and rented out.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

Included in that collection were “ Judgment Night ” ( first published in August and September, 1943 ), the lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss ; “ The Code ” ( July, 1945 ), an homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread ; “ Promised Land ” ( February, 1950 ) and “ Heir Apparent ” ( July, 1950 ) both documenting the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system ; and “ Paradise Street ” ( September, 1950 ), a futuristic take on the Old West conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers.

Amongst those arrested were Générals Daniel KATSUVA wa Katsuvira, Land Forces Chief of Staff, UTSHUDI Wembolenga, Commandant of the 2nd Military Region at Kalemie ; FALLU Sumbu, Military Attaché of Zaïre in Washington, Colonel MUDIAYI wa Mudiayi, the military attaché of Zaïre in Paris, the military attache in Brussels, a paracommando battalion commander, and several others.

Ivory Dominoes were routinely used in 19th century rural England in the settling of disputes over traditional grazing boundaries, and were commonly referred to as " bonesticks " ( see Hartley, Land Law in West Lancashire in the mid-19th Century, Farm Gazette, March 1984 ).

" Consequently, for a time the Falklands were known as " Davis Land " or " Davis ' Land.

Land operations were confined to small scale raids and skirmishes, with few pitched battles.

Blaine hoped that he would have more support from Irish Americans than Republicans typically did ; while the Irish were mainly a Democratic constituency in the 19th century, Blaine's mother was Irish Catholic, and he had been supportive of the Irish National Land League while he was Secretary of State.

In addition, the methods of the IRA were to some extent inspired by the traditions of militant agrarian Irish secret societies like the Defenders, the Ribbonmen and the supporters of the Irish Land League.

Land was reclaimed from the sea and from river deltas by building dikes and drainage, and rice paddies were built on terraces carved into mountainsides.

In the southwest, near Quick Step, is the district known as the " Land of Look Behind ," so named because Spanish horsemen venturing into this region of hostile runaway slaves were said to have ridden two to a mount, one rider facing to the rear to keep a precautionary watch.

Non-combatant members of the Order managed a large economic infrastructure throughout Christendom, innovating financial techniques that were an early form of banking, and building fortifications across Europe and the Holy Land.

Bandits abounded, and pilgrims were routinely slaughtered, sometimes by the hundreds, as they attempted to make the journey from the coastline at Jaffa into the Holy Land.

With this formal blessing, the Templars became a favored charity throughout Christendom, receiving money, land, businesses, and noble-born sons from families who were eager to help with the fight in the Holy Land.

* Untithed food ( tevel ): produce of the Land of Israel requires the removal of certain tithes, which in ancient times were given to the Kohanim ( priests ), Levites and the poor ( terumah, maaser rishon and maaser ani respectively )

Other orders were established in the Iberian peninsula, under the influence of the orders in the Holy Land and the Crusader movement of the Reconquista: