Studying The Merchant Of Venice in high school and college has given many young people their notions about Jews.

It has been proven to be the Quedagh Merchant.

The Merchant Confirmation Rule states that if one merchant sends a writing sufficient " A merchant making up the account " by Katsushika Hokusai to satisfy the statute of frauds to another merchant, the merchant has reason to know of the contents of the sent confirmation and the receiver does not object to the confirmation within 10 days, the confirmation is good to satisfy the statute as to both parties.

Strictly construed, the Jones Act refers only to Section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, (; 19 CFR 4. 80 and 4. 80 ( b )), which has come to bear the name of its original sponsor, Sen. Wesley L. Jones.

In recent years, she has found success interpreting songs of modern songwriters such as Ryan Adams, Josh Ritter, Steve Earle and Natalie Merchant.

" It emerges that Greenberg's lifelong ambition is to play Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, yet the three times that Greenberg recites sections of Shylock's most famous speech, the word " Jew " has in each case been written out.

The most notable structure in this district is Merchant Tower ( formally Merchants Hotel ) which has Romanesque architecture and is listed individually on the National Register of Historical Places since 1980.

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

He has performed on four sell-out stand-up comedy tours, written the best-selling Flanimals book series and starred with Merchant and Karl Pilkington in the most downloaded podcast in the world as of March 2009, The Ricky Gervais Show.

Abraham has focused on stage work throughout his career, giving notable performances as Pozzo in Mike Nichols's production of Waiting for Godot, Malvolio in Twelfth Night for the New York Shakespeare Festival, and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, for the Off Broadway Theatre For A New Audience ( TFANA ) in March 2007, which was performed at the Duke Theatre in New York and also at The Swan Theatre, part of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

A person has to have a Merchant Mariner's Document issued by the United States Coast Guard in the United States Merchant Marine in order to serve as a chief steward.

Shortly after Professor Laughton published his " Jenkins's Ear " research in the English Historical Review, a Royal Navy colleague wrote, on 26 October 1889, to inform the historian: " I have a curious book connected with the subject, published in London in 1739, entitled England's Triumph: or a complete History of the many signals victories gained by the Royal Navy & Merchant Ships of Great Britain, for the term of 40 years past over the insulting & haught Spaniards by Captain Charles Jenkins, who has too severely felt the effects of Spanish tyranny.

He has written pieces on lifting body development ( The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed ), the United States Merchant Marine ( Looking for a Ship ), farmers ' markets ( Giving Good Weight ), freight transportation ( Uncommon Carriers ), the shifting flow of the Mississippi River ( The Control of Nature ), geology ( in several books ), as well as a short book entirely on the subject of oranges.

) From these hints, a list of Kempe's parts has been deduced which, if conjectural, is not improbable: Costard in Love's Labours Lost, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lancelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice, and Cob in Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour.

Merchant has said in interviews that after her split with 10, 000 Maniacs she was so eager to begin writing her own material that she went home that very day and composed the song " I May Know the Word ", which was originally meant to appear on the soundtrack to the Tom Hanks movie Philadelphia.

He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical, winning the Tony Award ( Musical ) for Les Misérables and the Olivier Award for Summerfolk / The Merchant of Venice / Troilus and Cressida ; and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

Stipe was once very close to fellow singer Natalie Merchant and has recorded a few songs with her, including one titled " Photograph " which appeared on a pro-choice benefit album titled Born to Choose, and they appeared live with Peter Gabriel singing Gabriel's single " Red Rain " at the 1996 VH1 Honors.

He has also played leading roles in English-speaking Indian films, including 6 Merchant Ivory productions-The Householder, Shakespeare-Wallah, Bombay Talkie, Heat and Dust and as supporting actor in The Deceivers ( 1987 ), Side Streets ( 1998 ) and played the lead hero in other English films Pretty Polly ( 1967 ), Siddhartha ( 1972 ), Sammy and Rosie Get Laid ( 1987 ), Muhafiz ( 1994 ) and was part of Gulliver's Travels ( 1996 ), Jinnah ( 1998 ) as a supporting crew.

He has also appeared in some Shakespeare films, playing Macmorris in Kenneth Branagh's Henry V ( 1989 ), Philostrate in the 1999 film of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Salerio in 2004's The Merchant of Venice, with Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons and The Adventures of Pinocchio in 1996.

* " The present text has been digitalized from the translation of William H. Schoff, The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century ( New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912 ).

He has composed soundtracks for several movies, most notably In Custody and The Mystic Masseur by Ismail Merchant, and has played tabla on the soundtracks of Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha, and other films.

Set around 155 F. E., The Merchant Princes takes places against the backdrop of a powerful Foundation, which has subjugated the neighboring Four Kingdoms and expanded its commercial and technological empire throughout numerous stellar systems.

The detailed mechanisms of this type of failure have been studied extensively by Merchant for metal cutting, and the principles found can be directly applied to coatings.

" Whereas their Majesties have been Graciously Pleased to grant Letters patent to John Lofting of London Merchant for a New Invented Engine for Extinguishing Fires which said Engine have found every great encouragement.

The Tale of the Bull and the Ass and the linked Tale of the Merchant and his Wife are found in the frame stories of both the Jataka and the Nights.

During World War I he served in the Merchant Marine, after which he found employment singing as prologue to silent movies at the Grauman " Million Dollar " Theater in downtown Los Angeles.

Tired of playing cover songs — though their first notable American hit was found in covering the Cat Stevens hit " Peace Train "— the band started to write their own music, usually with Merchant handling the lyrics and Lombardo the music.

Piers Merchant worked for some years in various capacities for UKIP, and was at one time political advisor to Roger Knapman during their successful 2004 election ; also, for a short time, he acted as UKIP General Secretary until a suitable individual could be found full time.

In 1733 the Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol found the brazier to be unreliable and petitioned the General Lighthouse Authority, Trinity House, for an actual lighthouse, but the petition failed.

In the event, the ECJ found the nationality requirements in the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 discriminatory and contrary to Article 43 EC as a restriction on the freedom of establishment.

Merchant seafaring was the only source of livelihood for many rocky, non-arable Greek islands, and the brisk Mediterranean and Black Sea trade of the 18th and 19th centuries allowed them to prosper-especially and spectacularly so during the trade embargoes of the Napoleonic Wars, which found Greek merchantmen and crews willing and able work with, or against, both belligerent sides at tremendous profit.

He founded almshouses in King Street and on St. Michaels Hill, endowed Queen Elizabeth's Hospital school and helped found Colston's Hospital, a boarding school which opened in 1710 leaving an endowment to be managed by the Society of Merchant Venturers for its upkeep.

Republican Party members of congress searched military records and found no evidence that Lawrence was ever in the Merchant Marine.

Counter-examples can be found in Shakespeare ( the man that hath no music in himself, in The Merchant of Venice ), Mark Twain ( The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg ), and Ira Gershwin ( The Man that Got Away ).

The following year, I found myself doing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, and that was really the opening of the can of peas, for me.

The same year he starred in the limited-release film Luther, playing Martin Luther, and he also appeared in The Merchant of Venice, in which he portrayed Bassanio.

The same year Lymon joined the group, he helped Santiago and Merchant rewrite a song they'd composed to create " Why Do Fools Fall In Love ".

The performance would be released as the album Natalie Merchant: Live in Concert with a companion video of the same name.

The same year, Asia Merchant Marine Co. established, later renamed Hyundai Merchant Marine.

Carolyn Merchant ( born 1936 in Rochester, New York ) is an American ecofeminist philosopher and historian of science most famous for her theory ( and book of the same title ) on ' The Death of Nature ', whereby she identifies the Enlightenment as the period when science began to atomize, objectify and dissect nature, foretelling its eventual conception as inert.

She lost her seat at the 1997 general election, following a dispute with local fishermen, but later in the same year was elected MP for Beckenham via a by-election after the resignation of Piers Merchant.

The Merchant Shipping Act of that same year required all ships of the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy to provide a daily lime ration to sailors to prevent scurvy.

** a novella of the same title, later made into a Merchant Ivory film

The reproduction uses the same pine tree used in the Merchant Marine Flag of Maine.

Arnold Wesker's play The Merchant tells the same story from Shylock's point of view.

In the Merchant Navy, a cadet is an officer under training in much the same way as the military context.

The frigate Marmaduke and the Norway Merchant were sunk off above the chain ; the large Sancta Maria ( former VOC-ship Slot van Honingen of 70 cannon ) foundered while being moved for the same purpose.

The book, while at its core detailing the love of two men, Ormus Cama and Umeed " Rai " Merchant ( the narrator of the story ), for the same woman, Vina Apsara, provides a background and alternate history to the entire 1950s-1990s period of the growth of rock music.

As used by Shakespeare ( e. g., in King Henry VI, Part 3, Act 2, Scene VI ; in the Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene III ; and in The Taming of the Shrew, Act 2, Scene I ), the word means a flotilla of merchant ships operating together under the same ownership.

In the same year, Samuel Phelps made his London début as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at the theatre, also playing in other Shakespearean plays here.

Officers and chief petty officers of the U. S. Navy, U. S. Coast Guard, United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, NOAA Corps, and Merchant Marine use the same mess uniform, referred to as " dinner dress ".

In the same year, Merchant was a finalist at the Daily Telegraph Open Mic Awards.

Two shows, The Merchant of Venice and The Winter ’ s Tale, ran on an alternating basis over the course of the series and featured largely the same cast.

The CEO stepped down that same evening and Filip Dierckx ( whose Merchant banking division was considered within the company as the architect behind the investments in sub prime and which got the company into difficulties ) was named as the new CEO, to be approved by a shareholder meeting.

) Merchant vessels may also be encountered-with the player having the same options as with caravans, attack or barter.

A separate poster depicted Howard as a hypnotist with a watch on a chain, and the caption " I can spend the same money twice "; this was seen by some Conservatives as a depiction of either Shylock from the Merchant of Venice, or Fagin from Oliver Twist, and in either case therefore similarly anti-Semitic.

This loan is very much the same one Shylock from William Shakespeare's " The Merchant of Venice " used.