The Ann Arbor Land Company, a group of speculators, set aside of undeveloped land and offered it to the state of Michigan as the site of the state capital, but lost the bid to Lansing.

Land speculators, such as Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, and business owners quickly set about rebuilding the city.

Land speculators and squatters began to defraud Creeks out of their allotments, and violence broke out, leading to the so-called " Creek War of 1836 ".

The speculators, organized into the Los Angeles Suburban Home Association, including Harry Chandler and Harrison Gray Otis of the Los Angeles Times, Moses Sherman, a streetcar line owner, and Hobart Johnstone Whitley, a real estate promoter with ties as far back as the " Land Run of 1889 " ( the Great Oklahoma Land Rush ), bought Mr. Van Nuys out and prepared to " sell " the San Fernando Valley.

The Canyon de Ugalde Land Company, formed by land speculators in San Antonio in 1837, began purchasing headright grants in Uvalde County in the late 1830s.

In 1854, Jorgenson sold his claim to the Carver Land Company, a group of seven speculators, who planned to plat and develop a town.

It was revealed that the Yazoo Land Act sale to private speculators had been approved in return for bribes and after the scandal was exposed, voters rejected most of the incumbents in the next election, and the next legislature, reacting to the public outcry, repealed the law and voided transactions made under it.

Land speculators expected no rise in values when the government could not defend its borders nor protect its frontier population.

Land speculators built up the site, but the city of Madison, Wisconsin was selected as capital instead.

Land speculators and settlers objected to the transfer of western lands previously claimed by the colonies to a non-representative government.

Land speculators, already on the financial brink, worried that the French would eventually gain control of Spanish-controlled Louisiana, and shut off American access to the Mississippi River.

Land speculators bought in the area and subdivided blocks at varying sizes, leading to a wide class diversity within the suburb.

Land speculators looked to the Ohio Country as a place where lands might be acquired and then resold to immigrants.

Land speculators flooded into Texas.

The Land Ordinance of 1785 gave encouragement to land speculators, surveyors, and settlers who sought to gain new land from the Indians who may or may not have had a claim to it.

Land speculators such as Col William Archer after whom Archer Ave. is named and Frederick Petersdorf began buying land surrounding the settlement.

Land speculators and con-men nevertheless continued to promote the sale of portions of " Carver's Grant " for another half century.

When Towery asked General Land Office commissioner Bascom Giles about these irregularities, Giles denied involvement, attributing the irregularities to local land speculators.

Between the Cotton Belt and the Tennessee Valley is the mineral region, the Old Land area — a region of resistant rocks — whose soils, also derived from weathering in silu, are of varied fertility, the best coming from the granites, sandstones and limestones, the poorest from the gneisses, schists and slates.

The duo named themselves Gemini, and a second album with more music by Björn and Benny was released in April 1987, containing the big hit " Mio My Mio "; also to be found on the soundtrack to the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, for which Andersson co-produced the music.

The “ glory of YHWH ” was also revealed in the form of light-filled cloud which accompanied the Israelites during the Exodus to the Promised Land.

The museum also includes a variety of Holy Land antiquities collected in the early 20th century by missionaries Frank and Barbara Bowen.

That charter created a college " for the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land ... and also of English Youth and any others.

It is often pointed out that the charter of Dartmouth College, granted to Eleazar Wheelock in 1769, proclaims that the institution was created " for the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing and all parts of Learning ... as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences ; and also of English Youth and any others.

The territory is also often called the French Southern Lands () or French Southern Territories, which excludes Adélie Land where French sovereignty is not recognized internationally.

They played home games from their inaugural season to the 2011 season at Sun Life Stadium, which they shared with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League ( NFL ) and which was also called Joe Robbie Stadium, Pro Player Park, Pro Player Stadium, Dolphin Stadium, Dolphins Stadium, and Land Shark Stadium during their tenancy.

The German word Land is the exact cognate of English land but it carries many political, constitutional, and historical meanings absent from the English term ( among other things a constituent state of the German Federal Republic, historically a principality of the Holy Roman Empire, but also " rural " as opposed to " urban ", etc .— the Swedish lantis equating to " country bumpkin " or " hick "— most of these meanings are borne by the Anglo-Norman word country in English ).

During the 2006-2007 season CMT aired a series of reruns and TV Land also recognized the series with an award presented by k. d.

Again tending to outrun the tastes of his readers, Melville's epic length verse-narrative Clarel, about a student's pilgrimage to the Holy Land, was also quite obscure, even in his own time.

His reign also saw the launch of the First Crusade to regain the Holy Land, which heavily involved his family although he personally did not support the expedition.

" The Doors incorporated " Asturias " into their song " Spanish Caravan "; also, Iron Maiden's To Tame a Land uses the introduction of the piece for the song bridge ; and more recently, a guitar version of Granada functions as something of a love theme in Woody Allen's 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona

In addition to commercial properties, Hongkong Land also develops residential properties in key cities around the region including Hong Kong, mainland China, Macau and Singapore where its subsidiary MCL Land is a significant property developer.

* 1970 Archaeology in the Holy Land, third edition, 1970 ( also published in Dutch, Danish, German, Spanish and Swedish editions ).

See also Indian Land Claims Settlements for other cases where native land title claims were extinguished with monetary compensation.

This engine also continued in use in some export markets using units built at a Ford plant in Brazil, where Land Rovers were built under license and the engine was also used in Ford pick-up trucks built locally.

Before the sale was announced, Anthony Bamford, chairman of British excavators manufacturer JCB, had expressed interest in purchasing Jaguar Cars in August, the year previously ; only to back out when told the sale would also involve Land Rover, which he did not wish to buy.

* 12 June 2007: Announcement from the Ford Motor Company that it plans to sell Land Rover and also Jaguar Cars

The Freelander is also assembled at Land Rover's facility in Pune, India.

They also carved out a place for themselves and their descendants in the Crusader States of Asia Minor and the Holy Land.

Land based parasailing has also been formed into competition sport in Europe.

Toulouse in the 13th century. Innocent also decreed the Fourth Crusade of 1198, intended to recapture the Holy Land.