* Merchants in Britain build structures outside the forts of Hadrian's Wall and offer goods and services ( including brothels ) to Roman soldiers, who receive salaries in a region that otherwise has virtually no ready money.

Merchants who accept credit cards may receive a chargeback for the transaction and lose money as a result.

* Three Merchants: These three men, one tall and skinny, one medium and skinny, and the last short and round, walk around the marketplace taking money from people, " for the bank ".

By the later Middle Ages, Christian Merchants who lent money with interest were without opposition, and the Jews lost their privileged position as money-lenders ;

How effectively these warnings can be presented is seen in Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants, Vonnegut's Player Piano and Wyndham's Re-Birth.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

Merchants purchasing it there pack it on horses for 30 days to the Rhone river, where it is carried down to the mouth.

To this end, he compares George Orwell's Coming Up for Air with Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants and concludes that the basic building block and distinguishing feature of a science fiction novel is the presence of the novum, a term Darko Suvin adapts from Ernst Bloch and defines as " a discrete piece of information recognizable as not-true, but also as not-unlike-true, not-flatly-( and in the current state of knowledge ) impossible ".

In Hindu mythology, Budha ( not to be confused with Buddha ) is the god of Mercury ( planet ), mid-week Wednesday, and of Merchants and merchandise.

As of 2006, it is included as one of the main structures in Independence National Historical Park in downtown Philadelphia, alongside many other important early American structures such as Independence Hall and the Philadelphia Merchants ' Exchange.

Palazzo Castellania is also located along Merchants ' Street and was begun to the designs of Maltese architect Francesco Zerafa in 1748.

The festival is sponsored by the Seymour Merchants ' Association and is staffed completely with volunteer labor from the community.

The Historisches Kaufhaus, or Historical Merchants Hall, is a Late Gothic building on the south side of Freiburg's Münsterplatz.

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.

Fort Atkinson's 19th-and early 20th-century building history is preserved in the Main Street and Merchants Avenue historic districts.

Merchants, blacksmiths and physicians set up shop in what is now the downtown area of Greer.

In The Fear Merchants episode, discrimination against Chinese immigrants who attempt to assimilate in American society is addressed.

Each Caste is associated with a particular color ( Black for the Assassins, White for the Initiates ) or set of colors ( White and Gold for the Merchants, Yellow and Blue for the Slavers ).

The Worshipful Company of Builders Merchants is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.

Appointments to the office of Dean of Guild are still made in some areas: for instance the Lord Dean of Guild of Glasgow is described as the " second citizen of Glasgow " after the Lord Provost although the appointment is in the hands of the Merchants House of Glasgow, and not the city council.

This rumor is a plot point of the science fiction novel The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl ( w / CM Kornbluth ).

The main character in the 1949 novel The Dream Merchants by Harold Robbins, a former Universal Studios employee, is based upon Carl Laemmle.

He is known for his roles in the Hollywood films C. H. U. D., Diner, City Slickers, the first two Home Alone films where he played bandit Marv Merchants and as the narrator for the television series The Wonder Years.

For example the killing of cattle in Dublin is still regulated, in part by an Irish act of 1743, while the " Treatment of Foreign Merchants " is governed by 25 Edw.

Merchants also, however, sometimes smuggled other goods to circumvent prohibitions or embargoes on particular trades.

The Heechee first appeared in " The Merchants of Venus " ( 1972 ), a novella in the collection The Gold at the Starbow's End, sometimes called " The Merchants of Venus Underground ".

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway reach a similar conclusion in Merchants of Doubt ( 2010 ), where they identified a few contrarian scientists associated with conservative think-tanks who fought the scientific consensus and spread confusion and doubt about global warming.

During the fifth and sixth centuries C. E., Merchants played a large role in the spread of religion, in particular Buddhism.

As a result, Merchants spread Buddhism to foreign encounters as they travelled.

For example, if the Spy is hired as a Marshall, he can instigate an army revolt against their own kingdom, Landlords / Builders / Merchants can divest their respective resource from the town they rule or even attempt to sieze it for their kingdom and Clerics can spread discontent among the masses while spies of their own can make the monarch of the kingdom pass away unexpectedly.

Merchants organised " spread houses " where products tufted on farms were finished using heat washing to shrink and " set " the fabric.

Merchants brought goods and their faith to China ( resulting in a present-day population of some 37 million Chinese Muslims, mainly ethnic Turkic Uyghurs, whose territory was annexed to China ), India, southeast Asia, and the kingdoms of western Africa and returned with new discoveries and inventions.

Merchants wade into these pools and collect petroleum in ladles and fill goatskins with it, these oil merchants then sell them in different regions.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly injected themselves into the public debate about contentious scientific issues, positioning themselves as skeptics, their views gaining traction because the media gives them equal time out of a sense of fairness.

* Merger ( with consent of the Parliament of Great Britain ) of the Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies and the more recently established English Company Trading to the East Indies to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies, known as the Honourable East India Company.

The Company was granted a Royal Charter in 1600 ,< ref > The Register of Letters & c. of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, 1600 – 1619.

* The Dream Merchants, 1949 ( adapted into a TV movie in 1980 )

Furious at what they saw as poor management, many of those assembled organized into a body led by Etienne Marcel, the Provost of Merchants ( a title roughly equivalent to mayor of Paris today ).

The company's operations merged with those of the Gambia Merchants ' Company into the new Royal African Company, with a royal charter to set up forts, factories, troops and to exercise martial law in West Africa, in pursuit of trade in gold, silver and slaves ; Rupert was the third named member of the company's executive committee.

In 1688, Koblenz was besieged by the French under Marshal de Boufflers, but they only succeeded in bombing the Old City ( Altstadt ) into ruins, destroying among other buildings the Old Merchants ' Hall ( Kaufhaus ), which was restored in its present form in 1725.

Merchants are still " citizens " to William Harrison ; but he adds " they often change estate with gentlemen, as gentlemen do with them, by a mutual conversion of the one into the other.

Merchants, eager to profit from his fame, sold pictures depicting his role in the charge and written chronicles, based on his own accounts, were rushed into print.

The Board of Brokers moved into the Merchants Exchange Building at 3rd and Dock Streets in 1834 following a fire at the coffee house.

Around 1850, Sewell T. Taylor sold his bar, The Merchants Exchange Coffee House, and went into the imported liquor business.

The English East India Company ( hereafter, the Company ) was founded in 1600, as The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies.

By 1850 the surrounding area had become a centre for mercantile activity, with the Merchants House moving to the square in 1877, and the square itself, which had been developed into a private garden for the surrounding townhouses, became an established public space, after frequent disturbances and pulling down of railings by a disgruntled mob.

* Consuedo, vel, Lex Mercatoria: or, The Law Merchant: Divided into three parts, according to the Essential Parts of Traffick Necessary for All Statesmen, Judges, Magistrates, Temporal and Civil Lawyers, Mint-Men, Merchants, Mariners and Others Negotiating in all Places of the World.

John Dryden wrote a play, entitled " Amboyna or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants ," apparently at the behest of his patron, who had been one of the chief negotiators of the Secret treaty of Dover that caused England's entry into that war.

Another is located in a house once owned by the On Leong Chinese Merchants Association, which was among the first Chinese organizations to move into the neighborhood ; today the structure is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The earliest written mention of the town dates back to the 12th century, when Saxo Grammaticus in Gesta Danorum refers to it as Portus Mercatorum, which translates into Merchants ' Harbour or in the Danish of the time Købmannahavn.

The gates into Central Park along its western edge are: Merchants Gate at 59th Street, Women's Gate at 72nd, Naturalists Gate at 77th, Hunters Gate at 81st, Mariners Gate at 85th, Gate of all Saints at 96th, Boys Gate at 100th, and Strangers Gate at 106th.

Although World War I had been over for sixteen years, there were revived reports that America's leading munition companies had effectively influenced the United States into that conflict, which killed 53, 000 Americans, hence the companies ' nickname " Merchants of Death.

Shulman's works include the novels Rally Round the Flag, Boys !, which was made into a film starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward ; The Feather Merchants ; The Zebra Derby ; Sleep till Noon ; and Potatoes are Cheaper.

It collapsed in 1667 during the war with the Netherlands – the very war it started by having company Admiral Robert Holmes attack the Dutch African trade posts in 1664 – and re-emerged in 1672, having been merged with those of the Gambia Merchants ' Company into the new Royal African Company, with a royal charter to set up forts, factories, troops and to exercise martial law in West Africa, in pursuit of trade in gold, silver and slaves.

The documentary film The History Merchants covered investigations into Golan and the provenance of his finds.