On 27 November 1895, at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Nobel signed his last will and testament and set aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prizes, to be awarded annually without distinction of nationality.

The bulk of the documents relate to the running of a large, private estate is named after Heroninos because he was phrontistes ( Koine Greek: manager ) of the estate which had a complex and standarised system of accounting which was followed by all its local farm managers.

Petrarch's will ( dated April 4, 1370 ) leaves 50 florins to Boccaccio " to buy a warm winter dressing gown "; various legacies ( a horse, a silver cup, a lute, a Madonna ) to his brother and his friends ; his house in Vaucluse to its caretaker ; for his soul, and for the poor ; and the bulk of his estate to his son-in-law, Francescuolo da Brossano, who is to give half of it to " the person to whom, as he knows, I wish it to go "; presumably his daughter, Francesca, Brossano's wife.

Rice left the bulk of his estate to the founding of a free institute of higher education in Houston, Texas.

When Winfield Scott Stratton died on 14 September 1902, he left the bulk of his estate for the establishment of the Myron Stratton Home, for " the aged poor and dependent children ;" named for his father Myron Stratton.

In his will he left him the bulk of his estate ( after his brother Ambrose's death ), including Kenilworth Castle.

Instead, while the title of Earl of Westmorland and several manors were passed to Ralph, the bulk of his rich estate went to his wife, Joan Beaufort.

The bulk of the shooting was done at the Arthur Ranch in the San Francisco Valley, which was used as Aunt Elizabeth's estate for interior and exterior scenes during the day and at night.

Charles Vance Millar's will was notorious for offering the bulk of his estate to the Toronto woman who had the greatest number of children in the ten years after his death ( the Great Stork Derby ).

Gorey left the bulk of his estate to a charitable trust benefiting cats and dogs, as well as other species including bats and insects.

At his death he left the bulk of his estate to the Association of Sea Training Organisations, to enable others to gain training and experience in sailing the element he loved.

Dressler left an estate worth $ 310, 000, the bulk left to her sister Bonita.

The bulk of her estate went to the Royal Society of Literature.

The Hall, ancestral residence of the Sneyd family, had previously been requisitioned by the War Office for military use during World War II, and was supplied with the bulk of the Sneyd estate and a number of prefabricated structures erected by the Army, for the sum of £ 31, 000.

In 1668 an area of the Poulteney estate known as Sandpit Field was surrendered to Charles II, who made the bulk of the land into a Royal Park, as " Upper St James's Park " and enclosed it with a brick wall.

On his death, his will was disputed, and lawyers ' fees consumed the bulk of the estate.

Her father had died in 1874, leaving her the bulk of his estate.

The bulk of Hughie Green's estate was bequeathed to his lover at the time of his death, Christina Sharples, widow of Green's friend and Opportunity Knocks musical director Bob Sharples.

The bulk of the Tipton borough was absorbed into an expanded West Bromwich borough, although a fragment of the town near the border with Coseley ( including the former council offices and the bulk of the new Foxyards housing estate ) was absorbed into Dudley and most of the Tividale area became part of the new County Borough of Warley.

To everyone's surprise, it is revealed that Dick's father secretly changed his will just before he died, leaving the bulk of his estate to Dick.

After her death, Timothy sued for and was awarded some of the estate, but the bulk of it passed to Searles.

On the 10th February he called for the Governor to whom he expressed his wish for a will which would leave the bulk of his estate to then British Honduras.

The bulk composition and mass of Metis are not known, but assuming that its mean density is like that of Amalthea (~ 0. 86 g / cm³ ), its mass can be estimated as ~ 3. 6 × 10 < sup > 16 </ sup > kg.

Many are concerned, however, that the greatest need is in developing nations — where the vast bulk of the estimated 650 million people with disabilities reside.

However, the bulk of Bolan's fortune, variously estimated at between £ 20 and £ 30 million pounds ( approx $ 38 – $ 57 million ), remains in trust.

European production of milk powder is estimated around 800. 000 tons of which the main volume is exported in bulk packing or consumer packs.

Shamir has estimated that the cost of TWINKLE could be as low as $ 5000 per unit with bulk production.

Axis fatalities due to the actions of the Polish underground, of which AK formed the bulk, are estimated at up to 150, 000.

In Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, published in 1988, Gregory S. Paul estimated that the C. nasicornis holotype skeleton came from an animal weighing about while the large material from the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry represents a much bigger and heavier individual, whose bulk he estimated at about.

World production of bulk chromium, manganese and silicon ferroalloys was estimated as 29. 1 million tonnes ( Mt ) in 2008, a 3 % decrease compared with 2007.

In 1903, Boston businessman Arioch Wentworth left the bulk of his estate, estimated at $ 7 million, for the purpose of founding an industrial school within the city.

With the ongoing war on terror and recent antagonism between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the bulk of this political fallout of the crisis has fallen and been directed onto the Afghan refugee population where Pakistan has begun a process of repatriation back to Afghanistan in a policy similar to what Iran has done with its estimated 2 million Afghan refugees.

It is one of the ten largest publicly owned utilities in the United States, generating the bulk of its power through natural gas ( estimated 56 % of production total in 2009 ) and large hydroelectric generation plants ( 22 % in 2009 ), and SMUD's green power ( renewable ) energy output was estimated as 19 % in 2009.

In accordance with legislation passed at the last session of Congress, each Representative is authorized to deliver to the Post Office in bulk newsletters, speeches and other literature to be dropped in every letter box in his district.

These cases in which light is already visible at the other end of the tunnel are ones which over the next few years will absorb the bulk of our capital assistance.

For he seemed to sense at once that before him was no South Sea, but the solid bulk of the North American continent.

* 2007 – The bulk carrier M / V New Flame collides with the oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.

The Theban army under Pelopidas is said to have been dismayed by an eclipse ( on July 13, 364, see 4th century BC eclipses ), and Pelopidas, leaving the bulk of his army behind, entered Thessaly at the head of three hundred volunteer horsemen and some mercenaries.

The least expensive bulk cistern is a fenced pond or pool at ground level.

Berkelium is relatively soft and has one of the lowest bulk moduli among the actinides, at about 20 GPa ( 2Pa ).

The King, who had been besieging Breteuil in Normandy, arranged the bulk of his army at Chartres to the north of the besieged Tours, dismissing approximately 15, 000 – 20, 000 of his lower-quality infantry to increase the speed of his forces.

The Germans had massed the bulk of their armoured force in Panzer Group von Kleist, which attacked through the comparatively unguarded sector of the Ardennes and achieved a breakthrough at the Battle of Sedan with air support.

The trend of jewelry-making at home by hobbyists for personal enjoyment or for sale on sites like Etsy has resulted in the common practice of buying wholesale costume jewelry in bulk and using it for parts.

File: Cape breton island 3. jpg | A bulk carrier in the Strait of Canso docked at the Martin Marietta Materials quarry located at Cape Porcupine.

The port operates as a contingency facility for general cargo ships, bulk carriers and ROROs, in case of strikes at Piraeus port.

Cranberries destined for processing are usually frozen in bulk containers shortly after arriving at a receiving station.

The bulk of the volcanic eruption occurred at the Western Ghats ( near Mumbai ) some 65 million years ago.

In 2002 exports from Eritrea were valued at US $ 52 million, and the bulk were skins, meat, live sheep and cattle, and gum arabic.

Emulsifiers are not effective at extinguishing large fires involving bulk / deep liquid fuels, because the amount of agent needed for extinguishment is a function of the volume of the fuel, whereas agents such as aqueous film-forming foam ( AFFF ) need cover only the surface of the fuel to achieve vapor mitigation.

Bad harvests ( caused in part by extreme weather from El Niño along with volcanic activity at Laki and Grímsvötn in 1783 – 1784 ), rising food prices, and an inadequate transportation system that hindered the shipment of bulk foods from rural areas to large population centers contributed greatly to the destabilization of French society in the years leading up to the Revolution.

Madero spent the bulk of 1908 writing a book at the directions of the spirits, which now included the spirit of Benito Juárez himself.

# Public holiday, a day decreed by government as a day when the bulk of the population is not normally expected to be at work, such as Australia Day, Anzac Day, bank holidays or Christmas Day.

A series of 1950s essays by Henry Phelps Brown and Sheila V. Hopkins later set the academic consensus that the bulk of the population, that was at the bottom of the social ladder, suffered severe reductions in their living standards.

* Disposals of bulk chemicals businesses at that time included the sale of its Australian subsidiary, ICI Australia, for £ 1bn in 1997, and of its polyester chemicals business to DuPont for $ 3 billion also in 1997.

The third form of inheritance is the transfers of bulk estates at the time of death of the testators, thus resulting in significant economic advantage accruing to children during their adult years.

Around this time, most likely at Shaftesbury's prompting, Locke composed the bulk of the Two Treatises of Government.