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

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 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.

… 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.

Merchants often traveled together as guilds and sold common goods across different areas.

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

Merchants could not compete with the commissary's prices or quality ; for example, it boasted that the meat it sold had been refrigerated every moment from the Chicago slaughterhouse to the moment it was passed to the consumer.

Merchants either stopped producing goods, sold their goods illegally, or used barter.

Peter Beardsleys Wine Barrel was sold to United Wine Merchants.

From 1973 the products of these three manufacturing businesses were sold through Wolseley-Hughes Merchants, which was founded in that year.

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

Its peak came in the 16th century when the brotherhoods of the Merchants of Overseas sold their hemp fabric throughout Europe.

On 16 December 2006, P & O Dover ( Holdings ) Limited, a subsidiary of P & O and DP World sold its shares on Shekou Container Terminals Phase 1 ( 22. 5 %) and Phase 2 ( owned indirectly 22. 5 % shares ), a port of Shenzhen, People's Republic of China, to a joint venture company of China Merchants Holdings ( International ) and Modern Terminals Limited ( MTL ), which MTL bore the whole cost.

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

* Towers Department Stores 1967-acquired as Allied Towers Merchants Limited and ceased operations in 1990 with store locations sold to Zellers )

Farmers and Merchants Bank ( F & M ) is a historic lending institution in downtown Los Angeles, California, USA, known both for its architecture and its pivotal role in the economic development of early Los Angeles.

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.

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

Appointed by the Committee of Merchants that was in charge of the Gold Coast at the time, he served as governor in two periods: 31 March 1792-16 December 1798, and 28 April 1800-30 September 1802.

Merchants were forbidden to take their goods elsewhere and charge a higher price, and transport costs could not be used as an excuse to raise prices.

The Merchants are in charge of running London's economy.

In administrative terms, Loblaw International Merchants, in charge of PC product development, was merged with the company ’ s buying division, Intersave, to become Loblaw Brands Limited.

Although Sir Thomas Gates was later hailed by Sir Edwin Sandys as the " principle forwarder " of the London Virginia Company, Captain John Smith wrote in his General Historie that, when in 1605-06 the Jamestown expedition was making no progress, Wingfield got it moving: " Captain Bartholomew Gosnold second cousin, one of the first movers of this plantation, having many years solicited many of his friends, but found small assistance ; Gosnold at last prevailed with some gentlemen, Capt John Smith, Mr. Edward-Maria Wingfield, Mr. Reverend Robert Hunt, and diverse others, who depended a year upon his projects, but nothing could be effected, till by their great charge and industry, it came to be apprehended by certain of the Nobility, Gentry and Merchants, so that His Majesty by his letters patents, gave permission for establishing Councils, to direct here ; and to govern, and to execute there.

During 1820 the Merchants ' Petition, written by Thomas Tooke, was presented to the House of Commons demanding free trade and an end to protective tariffs.

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.

A detailed and well written overview of the English system is given by Robert Brenner in " Merchants and Revolution ".

* The Space Merchants is a science fiction novel, written by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth in 1952, about the campaign by advertising agencies on an overpopulated Earth to convince humans to colonize Venus, which is depicted as having a harsh and stormy tropical climate.

The Dream Merchants is an American novel written by Harold Robbins and published in 1949.