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.

Merchants sold bad food at high prices and thieves and robbers roamed the pilgrimage area preying on innocent victims.

However, the Russian food historian William Pokhlebkin claimed that Chicken Kiev was invented in the Moscow Merchants ' Club in the early 20th century, and was subsequently renamed Chicken Kiev ( котлета по-київськи, kotleta po-kyivsky, lit.

" He sold off the food brands, Golden Wonder, Courage Brewery Group and Arthur Cooper ( Wine Merchants ) off licenses to the Dalgety Group in 1987.

The Hong Kong Seafood Merchants represent ninety percent of the buyers of live reef food fish in Hong Kong and have an extensive impact on collection practices.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

He was also President of Merchants ' Bank as well as director of a number of other organizations.

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.

Names of shops and other features include humorous puns, such as Lee Key Plumbers ' Merchants (' Lee Key ' = ' leaky '), Sam and Ella's Butchers (' salmonella ') and the Mark Owney Wireless and Gramophone stores (' Marconi ').

Merchants in other colonial ports, including New York City and Philadelphia, eventually joined the boycott.

Esek Hopkins and other Rhode Island Merchants in " Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam " from 1755 ( he is second from the left at the table )

And Oswal jains also played main role in strengthening foundation of Jodhpur by donating mass wealth, gems to Maharaja of Jodhpur & in turn Maharaja of Jodhpur used to honour these wealthy Oswal Jain Merchants as Nagar Seth or various other honourable titles.

These basic elements can also be found in place names in other countries ; e. g. Amsterdam (' River Amstel dam '), Liechtenstein (' Light-stone '), Copenhagen (' Merchants ' harbour ), Paris (' Home of the Parisii '), Shanghai ( approximately ' Seaport '), Tashkent (' Stone city ').

Merchants and exporters of wine, brandy, silk, and other farming products, which was politically and economically very important, contacted a key person for their cause: General Joan Baptista Basset.

Scholars Gate, behind Grand Army Plaza, provided one of the two original main entrances to the carriage drives of Central Park, the other being Merchants Gate at the Grand Circle, now Columbus Circle.

The Victoria Park Mosque began as two adjacent houses, one owned by the Syrian Textile Merchants operating in Manchester since the early 1900s, and the other owned by the mainly Indian community living in the nearby areas of Rusholme and Longsight.

In 1695, after serving two years as Treasurer of Bromley College, a home for clergy widows, he resigned to establish-at a cost of £ 10, 000-his own hospice or almshouse for ' poor Merchants ... and such as have lost their Estates by accidents, dangers and perils of the seas or by any other accidents ways or means in their honest endeavours to get their living by means of Merchandizing '.

It was founded by philanthropist Sir John Morden in 1695 as a home for ' poor Merchants ... and such as have lost their Estates by accidents, dangers and perils of the seas or by any other accidents ways or means in their honest endeavours to get their living by means of Merchandizing.

Merchants and artisans hired teen-aged indentured servants as workers for a domestic system for the manufacture of cloth and other goods.

On the west side of the plaza, the Portales de Mercaderes ( Merchants ’ Portals ) were built, south of Cortés ’ other palace, the Palace of the Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca.

His success in banking led to sizable investments in numerous other companies, becoming a director of the International Hotel Company and President of the Merchants ' Gargling Oil Company of Lockport, New York.

Merchants may pay inventory / business or other taxes, but their customers usually pay none directly.

After the collapse of MG Rover group the old XPower building was transferred to EH Smiths Builders Merchants, PRG lighting also took over a large warehouse / factory unit and 2 other Warehouse / Factory units were constructed on the site.

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

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.

Merchants benefited greatly from the enforced monopolies, bans on foreign competition, and poverty of the workers.

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 ( 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.