In 1974, a document purporting to be the galley proofs of the missing section was sold at Sotheby's ; the catalogue description read, in part, that " The proofs were bought at the sale of the author's ... personal effects ... Oxford, 1898 ...".

Another Jewish tradition tells that when Jacob was brought to be buried in the cave, Esau prevented the burial claiming he has the right to be buried in the cave, after some negotiation Naphtali was sent to Egypt to retrieve the document stating Esau sold his part in the cave to Jacob.

Some deceivers cut pages from books that American President Richard Nixon ( c. 1970 ) signed on the blank flyleaf, typed his letter of resignation from the presidency on that signed page, and then sold the doctored item as if Nixon had personally signed a scarce copy of the historical document.

Leuchter started Fred Leuchter Associates in which he sold services to several states to help them maintain, improve, document, and ascertain the effectiveness of their equipment for administration of capital punishment.

This was the record for a document sold at auction.

The story about the alleged " Sacred Book " is questioned by modern Egyptologists, for it would be highly unusual that a pharaoh wrote books and that such a precious document could be sold away so easily.

The letters patent remained in the possession of the Opera House until shortly after the First World War, when the document was sold to an American university library.

Walker began spying for the Soviets in December 1967, when, distraught over his financial difficulties, he walked into the Soviet Embassy in Washington, DC, sold a top secret document ( a radio cipher card ) for several thousand dollars, and negotiated an ongoing salary of $ 500 to $ 1, 000 a week.

The New York Times review called the book " bland and tepid " and reading " as if it had been vetted by a committee of Microsoft executives "; it is " little more than a positioning document, sold in book form with accompanying CD-ROM and designed mainly to advance the interests of the Microsoft Corporation.

Her name is affixed to such a document in 1694, but given her deep natural lyricism, the tone of these supposed hand-written penitentials is in rhetorical and autocratic Church formulae ; one is signed " Yo, la peor de todas " (" I, the worst of all the women ") She is said to have sold all her books, then an extensive library of over 4, 000 volumes, and her musical and scientific instruments as well.

Some time after the auction is concluded, recipients of the auction catalogs will receive a " prices realized " document, a bare listing of the lot numbers and the prices for which each was sold.

After Kryptos, however, he went on to make several other sculptures with codes and other types of writing, including one called Antipodes which is at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D. C., an " Untitled Kryptos Piece " which was sold to a private collector, and a Cyrillic Projector with encrypted Russian Cyrillic text, which included an extract from a classified KGB document.

The 1977 Priory document claimed Saunière discovered three documents: 1 ) a genealogy of the Counts of Rhedae dated 1243 bearing the seal of Blanche of Castile, 2 ) a document of 1608 relating to François-Pierre d ' Hautpoul providing a complementary genealogy from 1240 onwards and, 3 ) a last will and testament of Henri d ' Hautpoul dated 24 April 1695 bearing the stamp and signature of the testator, adding they were originally sold by Saunière's niece Madame James to two Englishmen, Captain Ronald Stansmore and Sir Thomas Frazer of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.

Gift cards differ from gift certificates, in that the latter are usually sold as a paper document with an authorized signature by a restaurant, store, or other individual establishment as a voucher for a future service ; there is no electronic authorization.

This assures that the investor can accurately calculate the capital gains tax when any shares are sold, and document cost basis to their government if requested.

These provided affordable options as compared to original works and, as such, these plates were not sold to commemorate or document a specific event, but specifically as embellishments for albums.

The Dresden Stollen ( originally Striezel ), a moist, heavy bread filled with fruit, was first mentioned in an official document in 1474, and the most famous Stollen is still the Dresdner Stollen, sold, amongst other places, at the local Christmas market, Striezelmarkt.

A bill of sale is a legal document made by a ' seller ' to a purchaser, reporting that on a specific date, at a specific locality, and for a particular sum of money or other " value received ", the seller sold to the purchaser a specific item of personal, or parcel of real, property of which he had lawful possession.

A bill of sale has been defined as a legal document made by the seller to a purchaser, reporting that on a specific date at a specific locality and for a particular sum of money or other value received, the seller sold to the purchaser a specific item of personal property, or parcel of real property of which he had lawful possession.

Usually, there is space for the listing of successive owners, who must sign and date the document if the animal is gifted, leased or sold.

A document from 1509 records that 539 Latin versions and 60 German versions had not been sold.

They hadn't stamped their carnet ( a document which ensures that expensive items brought into a country have not been sold ) when entering the Czech Republic, which could have meant the seizure of their cameras.

To document his charge, Pike set up two parallel columns in The Advocate showing the price charged by The Gazette and the considerably lower price for which the work could be done elsewhere.

The capital budget, for construction of permanent improvements, becomes an appropriating document instead of just a calendar of pious promises ; ;

He and other Soviet leaders responsible for the document were proud of having brought forward some new formulas, such as the early replacement of the dictatorship of the proletariat by an `` All People's State '', and also of having laid down the lines for a much greater `` democratization '' of the whole hierarchy of Soviets, starting with the Supreme Soviet itself.

A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings Of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''.

Programming languages are primarily intended for expressing algorithms in a form that can be executed by a computer, but are often used as a way to define or document algorithms.

* To obtain a declaration on a legal document, such as an application for voter registration, that the information provided by the applicant is truthful to the best of the applicant's knowledge.

This matter is addressed by the use of the Apostille, a means of certifying the legalization of a document for international use under the terms of the 1961 Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents.

The document was signed for Russia by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and Industry Minister Ilya Klebanov, while Prime Minister Andranik Markarian and defense and security strongman Serge Sarkisian signed for Armenia.

The oldest known document using the German word Alphorn is a page from a 1527 account book from the former Cistercian abbey St. Urban near Pfaffnau mentioning the payment of two Batzen for an itinerant alphorn player from the Valais.

A remarkable early tenth-century document, known as the Burghal Hidage, provides a formula for determining how many men were needed to garrison a borough, based on one man for every of wall.

) In central Europe, the King of Hungary Ladislaus the Posthumous, started the use of Arabic numerals, which appear for the first time in a royal document of 1456.

Plebiscites, once passed, were also transcribed into a physical document for storage.

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

In October 2006, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, a governmental department, authored a document: " Understanding the Future: Priorities for England's Museums ".

This document was based on several years of consultation aimed to lay out the government's priorities for museums in the 21st century.

The document listed the following as priorities for the next decade:

Although this document was subsequently adopted by International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) and subsequent revisions published by ISO have been adopted by ANSI, the name ANSI C ( rather than ISO C ) is still more widely used.

The classic distribution is Müller's version 2, containing a compiler for the Amiga, an interpreter, example programs, and a readme document.

The reasons for variable efficacy have been discussed at length in a WHO document on BCG.