Merchants paid a percentage of sales and or a cost per click for traffic sent to their websites — ultimately this model became known as pay per click and was perfected by Google and Overture Services, Inc.

Merchants arriving from India in the port city of Aden paid tribute in form of musk, camphor, ambergris and sandalwood to Ibn Ziyad, the sultan of Yemen.

Merchants arriving from India in the port city of Aden paid tribute in form of musk, camphor, ambergris and sandalwood to Ibn Ziyad, the sultan of Yemen.

Merchants further illustrated support for the students by resisting tax payments if China's government remained obstinate.

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

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.

A final part of the work advertised under the title " Merchants now living in and outside Germany " did not appear.

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.

The bookseller and publisher Zedler published this book in Leipzig under the name " Great Complete Encyclopaedia of All Sciences and Arts Which So Far Have Been Invented and Improved by Human Mind and Wit: Including the Geographical and Political Description of the Whole World According to All Monarchies, Empires, Kingdoms, Principalities, Republics, Free Sovereignties, Countries, Towns, Sea Harbors, Fortresses, Castles, Areas, Authorities, Monasteries, Mountains, Passes, Woods, Seas, Lakes ... and also a Detailed Historical and Genealogical Description of the World's Brightest and Most Famous Family Lines, the Life and Deeds of the Emperors, Kings, Electors and Princes, Great Heroes, Ministers of State, War Leaders ... ; Equally about All Policies of State, War and Law and Budgetary Business of the Nobility and the Bourgeois, Merchants, Traders, Arts.

He also retired as president of American Express in 1868 when it was merged with the Merchants Union Express Company under the presidency of William Fargo.

By the charter of Charles II, the company was erected into a body politic, capable of making laws, etc., under the title of the Company of Merchants of England trading to the Seas of the Levant.

* In Frederik Pohl's The Merchants of Venus ( 1972 ), Pohl made a meticulous effort to present a plausible way for human colonization of Venus, under the conditions revealed by probes.

The area under his control enjoyed prosperous trade between the locals and the Merchants from Dubrovnik.

The firm was started in 1872 by an Irish immigrant, Patrick Toole, under the name, Toole & Sons Food Merchants.

Merchants who had previously regarded the buccaneers as a defense against Spain now saw them as a threat to commerce, and colonial authorities grew hostile.

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.

During this decade when Houston was booming, UHD succeeded in having the Merchants and Manufacturers Building named to the National Register of Historic Places, degree programs continued to grow, and UHD's first Red Rose Ball became a signature fundraiser.

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.

In 1949, the Roanoke Merchants Association decided to kick off that year's Christmas shopping season by having a neon star built on top of Mill Mountain.

* 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.

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.

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

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.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly position themselves as skeptics, with their views being given equal time by the media.

Merchants set up a website to display their products or services for consumers to access by using a web browser.

Merchants can also extend their online sales reach and revenue by creating an affiliate marketing strategy.

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.

The English King Henry VIII published them as " The judgment of the sea, of Masters, of Mariners, and Merchants, and all their doings.

• In 1974, Mayer, who in the off-season donned the nickname Blazers, earned their second trip to the state classic in as many years, but they bowed out in the opening round to the Winona Merchants 5-2 in St.

Merchants moved their businesses closer to the railroad station, and the town thrived as a business and trade center.

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.

Standard Life Assurance built their flagship Dublin branch in a striking classical style close to the GPO, while the Findlater family opened a branch of their successful chain close to Parnell Street, as did Gilbeys Wine Merchants.

Merchants in China, if they became rich enough, found that their strings of coins were too heavy to carry around easily.

Merchants that had gained a fortune ordered a new house built along one of the many new canals that were dug out in and around many cities ( for defense and transport purposes ), a house with an ornamented façade that befitted their new status.

Paul Rodgers and Bad Company released their first live CD and DVD In Concert: Merchants of Cool in 2002.

Merchants wrote them in their books of credit ; fishermen used it in religious rituals by marking them in the door of Catholic chapels near hills or beaches ; in the table of their town ’ s first church during marriage ; and also had magical significance, such as the São Selimão sigla, that could be used as a protecting symbol and not as family mark.

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.

Increasingly, the Italian Merchants from the wealthiest states in Italy, especially Genoa and Venice joined in the lucrative trade and some members sported exotic lackeys and few domestic or workshop slaves whereas before slavery was forbidden in Christendom and only formerly in Muslim Spain and Sicily and their buffer border marches were seen and legally allowed.

On April 20, 1988, the FBI and Chicago police Internal Affairs Division investigators raided the On Leong Merchants Association Building, confiscated gambling paraphernalia from a casino hidden on the building's second floor and seized $ 350, 000 from a vault.