After World War II, Jamaicans purchased radios in increasing numbers and were able to hear rhythm and blues music from Southern United States cities such as New Orleans by artists such as Fats Domino and Louis Jordan.

Louis Perano of Bryanston Pictures eventually purchased the distribution rights.

Joseph Pulitzer purchased the New York World in 1883 after making the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the dominant daily in that city.

The support of Duke Albert II of Saxony and Elector Palatine Louis II had been purchased by betrothing them to two of Rudolph's daughters.

His contract was purchased from the Memphis Redbirds on July 2, 2006 by the St. Louis Cardinals where he appeared out of the bullpen during the 2006 regular season.

Louis purchased his Passion relics from Baldwin II, the Latin emperor at Constantinople, for the sum of 135, 000 livres, though this money was actually paid to the Venetians, to whom the relics had been pawned.

When Schary went to MGM, he purchased the rights to the script from RKO, over the objections of Louis B. Mayer, who believed that the public was tired of war films.

The lands were purchased by Henri Hurault, comte de Cheverny, a lieutenant-general and military treasurer for Louis XI, whose descendent the marquis de Vibraye is the present owner.

The medieval castle was purchased in 1391 by Louis, duc d ' Orléans, brother of Charles VI ; after Louis ' assassination, his widow, Valentina Visconti, retired to this castle at Blois.

In 1942, the Picnic Grove land was purchased by Louis, Jr. and Clara Cernocky.

In 1863 Conrad Rapp purchased numerous property lots on east Broadway Street and bought Louis Walter's gristmill.

On June 20, 1905, The Chaffee Real Estate Company of St. Louis, Missouri purchased of land from a local farmer, John Witt of Sikeston, Missouri, for $ 140, 000.

Two years later, Lambert purchased the field outright ; on February 7, 1928, he sold it to the city of Saint Louis at cost, allowing it to become the first city-operated airport and the precursor of today's Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.

Around 1903, just before the St. Louis World's Fair opened, the St. Louis, Memphis and Southern Railroad purchased the company-owned railroad's right-of-way through Crystal City and neighboring Festus, Missouri to establish what became the Frisco Line.

Hachette Filipacchi was founded by Louis Hachette in 1826 when he purchased the Librarie Brédif.

The congregation disassembled the structure and rebuilt it on property purchased from Louis Taylor.

John Emerson purchased the slave Dred Scott in Saint Louis, Missouri, but he later worked at Fort Snelling and lived at the fort with Dred and Harriet Scott during much of the 1830s.

Three years later, W. R. McElroy purchased in the same vicinity, and in effort to promote the area jointly with Cash and Luckle in St. Louis, he named it " Missouri City ".

The city purchased its first exhibit, the Flight Cage, from the Smithsonian Institution following the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Ōyama Iwao is the first recorded Japanese customer for Louis Vuitton, having purchased some luggage during his stay in France.

In 1467 the Tribunale della Mercanzia, the judicial organ of the Guilds in Florence, commissioned from Verrocchio a bronze group portraying Christ and St. Thomas for the centre tabernacle, which the Tribunale had recently purchased, on the east facade of Orsanmichele to replace a statue of St Louis of Toulouse, which had been removed.

A nuclear pacifier of these dimensions -- roughly some six and a half times bigger than anything the United States has triggered experimentally -- would certainly produce a bigger bang, and, just for kicks, Khrushchev might use it to propel the seminar of the house of delegates from St. Louis to the moon, where there wouldn't even be any beer to drink.

Some plant-location specialists take these signs to mean St. Louis county doesn't want industry, and so they avoid the area, and more jobs are lost.

A suggestion from Louis De Broglie, a physicist in France, showed us that these electrons are not point particles but waves.

Encouraged by these early gains Louis XIV urged Marshal Villeroi to go over to the offensive in the Spanish Netherlands and, with victory, gain a ' fair ' peace.

But these French horsemen were amongst the best in Louis XIV ’ s army – the Maison du Roi, supported by four elite squadrons of Bavarian Cuirassiers.

Perhaps the most famous of these is Louis Eliasberg, the only collector thus far to assemble a complete set of known coins of the United States.

Augustin Louis Cauchy refereed these papers, but refused to accept them for publication for reasons that still remain unclear.

As these were the days when kidnapping an heiress was seen as a viable option for obtaining a title, William had dictated a will on the very day he died, bequeathing his domains to Eleanor and appointing King Louis VI of France as her guardian.

Claude Gordon was student of Louis Maggio and Herbert L. Clarke and systematized the concepts of these teachers.

Some English government officials felt that Louis Bonaparte was seeking foreign adventure in the spirit of his uncle — Napoleon I. Consequently, these officials felt that any close association with Louis Bonaparte would eventually lead Britain into another series of wars, like the wars with France and Napoleon dating from 1793 until 1815.

British relations with France had scarcely improved since 1815. As prime minister, the Earl of Aberdeen was one of these officials, who feared France and Louis Bonaparte.

The first of these was George I Louis, who acceded to the British throne in 1714.

Louis Feldman rejects these arguments against the authenticity of the James passage and states that in several other unrelated cases the Jewish War also differs from the Antiquities, and that an interpolator would have made the two accounts correspond more closely to each other, not make them differ.

After protests by heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis ( then stationed at Fort Riley ) and the help of Truman Gibson ( then an assistant civilian aide to the Secretary of War ), Robinson also openly criticized segregated hotels and restaurants that served the Dodger organization ; a number of these establishments integrated as a result, including the five-star Chase Park Hotel in St. Louis.

Hugh III and Baibars made a one-year truce after these conquests ; Baibars knew that Louis IX was planning another crusade from Europe, and assumed that the target would once again be Egypt.

In all these deeds, Louis IX tried to fulfill the duty of France, which was seen as " the eldest daughter of the Church " ( la fille aînée de l ' Église ), a tradition of protector of the Church going back to the Franks and Charlemagne, who had been crowned by the Pope in Rome in 800.

Although edicts from King Louis XIV's court regularly came to the islands to suppress the Protestant " heretics ", these were mostly ignored by island authorities until Louis XIV's Edict of Revocation in 1685.

Gregory complied with these demands of imperial supremacy, and in 828 and 829, the Pope sent embassies to Louis for unspecified discussions.

Following these events, Gregory returned to Rome, while Louis was subsequently restored in 834.

For requests received directly from veterans, these requests are routed through a Navy Liaison Office on site at 9700 Page Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63132-5100 ( the location of the Military Personnel Records Center ).

More importantly in 1931 Louis Leakey discovered older more primitive stone tools in Olduvai Gorge — these were the first examples of the oldest human technology ever discovered in Africa, subsequently known throughout the world as Oldowan after Olduvai Gorge.