Merchants who had made a fortune ordered new houses built along one of the many new canals that were dug out in and around various cities and towns ( for defense and transport purposes ), houses with ornamented facades that benefited their new status.

Merchants and artisans from many parts of the Roman world established themselves in coastal Libya and the province was greatly " Romanized ", according to Theodore Mommsen.

The Space Merchants, like such humanist documents as Joseph Wood Krutch's The Measure Of Man and C. S. Lewis's The Abolition Of Man, considers what may result from the scientific study of human nature.

The Beginnings of Electric Sound Generation – an exhibit at the Museum of Making Music, National Association of Music Merchants, Carlsbad, CA – some of the earliest electric guitars and their history, from the collection of Lynn Wheelwright and others

Merchants who profited from the American trade began investing in leather, textiles, iron, coal, sugar, rope, sailcloth, glassworks, breweries, and soapworks, setting the foundations for the city's emergence as a leading industrial centre after 1815.

Merchants whose goods were being shipped together would pay a proportionally divided premium which would be used to reimburse any merchant whose goods were deliberately jettisoned in order to lighten the ship and save it from total loss.

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 ".

* Merchants carry coffee from Yemen to Mecca, Arabia ( approximate date ).

Merchants, artisans, and scholars were transported to Istanbul from Tabriz and Cairo under Selim I ( d. 1520 ).

Merchants from the Mediterranean city-states of Italy and France were eager to exploit the rich trade markets of the east.

Merchants could travel from one end of the empire to the other in relative safety within a few weeks, moving agricultural goods produced in the provinces to the cities, and manufactured goods produced by the great cities of the East to the more rural provinces.

Merchants ( and even temples in some cases ) made ordinary business loans, charging from 20 % to 30 %.

The Dream Merchants ( 1949 ) was a novel about the American film industry, from its beginning to the sound era.

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

" Gibbon Merchants Do Things ", Postcard from around 1900.

Merchants Coal attempted to build Boswell to be a notch above surrounding coal company towns in that plans included a central business district, a high school, and homes constructed from brick, as opposed to the wood used elsewhere.

Merchants and authorities settling from Rome brought with them the Latin language, and eventually the indigenous inhabitants mostly abandoned their languages ( prevalently a variety of Illyrian tongues ) for vulgar Latin.

In " The Merchants of Venus ", the Heechee ( a name given by humans since nobody knows what they called themselves ) are nowhere to be found, and humans know of them only from their artifacts.

Merchants, hoping to benefit from the railroad, began moving their stores across the river, to the tracks.

The City Slickers developed from the Feather Merchants, a band led by vocalist-clarinetist Del Porter, who took a back seat to Jones during the embryonic years of the group.

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.

… I am a Kentish man, born in a town called Gillingham, two English miles from Rochester, one mile from Chatham, where the King's ships do lie: from the age of twelve years old, I was brought up in Limehouse near London, being Apprentice twelve years to Master Nicholas Diggins ; and myself have served for Master and Pilot in her Majesty's ships ; and about eleven or twelve years have served the Worshipfull Company of the Barbary Merchants, until the Indish traffic from Holland began, in which Indish traffic I was desirous to make a little experience of the small knowledge which God had given me.

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.

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

** Merchants National Bank, South Bend, Indiana, of $ 29, 890 on June 30, 1934.

This time they succeeded, and on 31 December 1600, the Queen granted a Royal Charter to " George, Earl of Cumberland, and 215 Knights, Aldermen, and Burgesses " under the name, Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies.

Merchants ( 1285 ) established firm rules for the recovery of debts, while Winchester ( 1285 ) dealt with peacekeeping on a local level.

In the early 18th century Bishop Sceberras built the Palazzo Parisio, Valletta on the site of two former houses in Merchants ' Street, then known as Strada San Giacomo.

In March 1965, he had three novels on the British paperback bestseller list – Where Love Has Gone at No. 1, The Carpetbaggers at No. 3 and The Dream Merchants in the sixth spot.

Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers ( 2004 )

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.

A fire station was built in 1958 on Merchants Alley, behind the 12 N. Main Town Hall.

In 1507-1508 he was employed, with other artists of his generation, to decorate with frescoes the exterior of the newly rebuilt Fondaco dei Tedeschi ( or German Merchants ' Hall ) at Venice, having already done similar work on the exterior of the Casa Soranzo, the Casa Grimani alli Servi and other Venetian palaces.

Many works espousing a general anti-war view such as John Denson's A Century of War and H. C. Engelbrecht's The Merchants of Death can be found on the institute ’ s website and purchased through its bookstore.

Merchants from as far afield as Indonesia and Malaysia passed through Opone, trading spices, silks and other goods, before departing south for Azania or north to Yemen or Egypt on the trade routes that spanned the length of the Indian Ocean's rim.

Merchants Parcel Delivery was formed and focused now on packages.

Merchants brought their lunch in a food box called sefertas, and the only food on sale was simple dishes such as doner kebab, tavuk göğsü ( a dessert prepared with chicken breast, milk sugar and rose water sprinkled on it ) and Turkish coffee.

While carrying 133 pounds, Sir Barton set a world record for 1 3 / 16 miles on dirt in winning the August 28, 1920 edition of the Merchants and Citizens Handicap.

Merchants use ( d ) very high geta ( two long teeth ) to keep the feet well above the seafood scraps on the floor.

A British agent representing the African Company of Merchants at Cape Coast sheltered the accused grave robbers, whilst the Ashanti went on to attack the fort at Kormantine ( Fort Amsterdam ) of their old allies the Dutch.

* An Appeal to Merchants and Ship Owners, on the Subject of Seamen ( 1854 )

In 2010, a Chinese developer, China Merchants Zhangzhou, announced its intention to build a near-exact copy of Cadaqués on more than of land on Xiamen Bay in China.