On 16 May 1691, Kidd married Sarah Bradley Cox Oort, an English woman in her early twenties, who had already been twice widowed and was one of the wealthiest women in New York, largely due to her inheritance from her first husband.

As a group, they were the wealthiest, most active, and most physically fit generation to that time, and amongst the first to grow up genuinely expecting the world to improve with time.

In the late 19th century and the first part of the 20th century, Aiken served as a winter playground for many of the country's wealthiest families such the Vanderbilts, Bostwicks, and the Whitneys.

As leader of the nation's wealthiest and best-known university, Eliot was necessarily a celebrated figure whose opinions were sought on a wide variety of matters, from tax policy ( he offered the first coherent rationale for the charitable tax exemption ) to the intellectual welfare of the general public.

What is clear is that foot binding was first practiced among the elite and only in the wealthiest parts of China, which suggests that binding the feet of well-born girls represented their freedom from manual labor.

Gaius ' first action was to move from his home on the Palatine, where the wealthiest of Romans and the political elite lived, to a neighborhood near the Forum, believing that in so doing he was keeping to his democratic principles and reaffirming his loyalty to the People rather than to the privileged elite.

Cornelius Crocker, one of the wealthiest men on the Cape, was the first keeper of the Tavern.

The neighborhood experienced an economic boom in the first decades of the 20th century when some of the wealthiest families built their homes in the area.

At her death she was considered to be the wealthiest African-American woman in America and known to be the first self-made female American millionaire.

The Forbes 400 or 400 Richest Americans ( first published in 1982 ) is a list published by Forbes Magazine magazine of the wealthiest 400 USians, ranked by net worth.

Among the wealthiest men in the British American colonies, he is known as the " Penman of the Revolution " for his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania ; upon receiving news of his death, President Thomas Jefferson recognized him as being " among the first of the advocates for the rights of his country when assailed by Great Britain " whose " name will be consecrated in history as one of the great worthies of the revolution.

Ranked first by many years in real estate launches, it was always considered by the citizens of São Paulo as sophisticated and as one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of the city, despite the existence of the Paraisópolis favela.

Henriquez, who became the wealthiest man on the island in the first half of the 18th century, is considered by many to have been the first Puerto Rican entrepreneur.

Liza made her first appearance in 1981 as a snobbish upper-class teenager from one of Pine Valley's wealthiest families, with a crush on upper-class classmate Greg Nelson.

In 1930, he started his own construction business and after coming to the attention of Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, first monarch of Saudi Arabia, he eventually achieved such success that his family became known as " the wealthiest non-royal family in the kingdom.

One of the wealthiest of the town leaders, Eustache de Saint Pierre, volunteered first, and five other burghers soon followed suit, stripping down to their breeches.

* William " Speaker " Conolly ( 1662 – 1729 ) the most powerful and wealthiest politician in Ireland in the first decades of the 18th century.

In 2002, he became the first engineering professor ever to receive the $ 100, 000 McLean Award, the University of Toronto ’ s wealthiest and most prestigious prize for outstanding research.

The riding contains notable areas such as Rosedale ( one of Canada's wealthiest enclaves ), Regent Park ( Canada's first and largest social housing development ), St. Jamestown ( a largely immigrant area and the most densely populated neighbourhood in Canada ), Cabbagetown, Church and Wellesley ( Canada's largest gay community ), the eastern portion of the University of Toronto and part of the city's financial district ( the northern portion of Bay Street ).

At the height of the Cold War, when the US Atomic Energy Commission was desperately seeking sources of uranium for the production of atomic weapons, John Roosevelt became an officer and director of the Standard Uranium Company, reportedly the first and most successful publicly-traded uranium corporation, which registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission in early 1954 and soon attracted heavy investments by industrialist Floyd Odlum, one of the wealthiest men in America.

He held the distinction of having been the first African American placed on Forbes ' list of 400 wealthiest Americans.

The University ’ s endowment has risen to $ 1. 6 billion, making BC one of the 40 wealthiest universities in the nation and one of the first to reach its pre-recession endowment level.

Elias Hasket Derby, Salem's wealthiest merchant and thought to be America's first millionaire, and his wife, Elizabeth Crowninshield, purchased eight chairs as a set that were hand-made and hand-carved in the late 18th century ..

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

Similar literary exercises were the common doings of a Christian humanist of the first two decades of the sixteenth century.

( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.

Tobacco was common first aid.

It is no common thing for a listener ( critical or otherwise ) to hear a singer `` live '' for the first time only after he has died.

But then, Mario Lanza was no common singer, and his whole career, public and non-public, was studded with the kind of unconventional happenings that terminate with the appearance of his first `` recital '' only when he has ceased to be a living voice.

In the common law, an answer is the first pleading by a defendant, usually filed and served upon the plaintiff within a certain strict time limit after a civil complaint or criminal information or indictment has been served upon the defendant.

The Phoenician script was probably the first phonemic script and it contained only about two dozen distinct letters, making it a script simple enough for common traders to learn.

Death is common in the first week and overall mortality is about 70 %, but increasing evidence points to favorable outcomes after aggressive treatment with corticosteroids, immunoglobulins, cyclophosphamide, and plasma exchange.

The first Ancestral Puebloan homes and villages were based on the pit-house, a common feature in the Basketmaker periods.

He considers animism the first worldwide religion, common among all tribal societies before the advent of the Agriculture Revolution and its resulting globalized culture, along with the proliferation of this culture's organized, " salvationist " religions.

Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the Wallace Line that divides the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts, one in which animals closely related to those of Australia are common, and one in which the species are largely of Asian origin.

Alexander () is a common male first name, and less common surname derived from the Greek " Αλέξανδρος " ( Aléxandros ).

This is a common fact about allomorphy: if the allomorphy conditions are ordered from most restrictive ( in this case, after an alveolar stop ) to least restrictive, then the first matching case usually " wins ".

What they and many others of that generation in the Nordic countries had in common was that they started off from a classical education and were first designing in the so-called Nordic Classicism style – a style that had been a reaction to the previous dominant style of National Romanticism – before moving, in the late 1920s, towards Modernism.

Today automated flight control is common to reduce pilot error and workload at key times like landing or takeoff. Autopilot was first invented by Lawrence Sperry during World War II to fly bomber planes steady enough to hit precision targets from 25, 000 feet.

Surprised that Thacher was sober, and sensing a " kinship of common suffering ", Wilson, though drunk at the time, attended his first Group gathering.

Speeding up the low portion of memory is particularly useful on 6502 derived machines because that processor has a faster addressing mode for the first 256 bytes and so it is common for software to put any variables involved in time critical sections of program into that region.

A third theory assumes common authorship of the Western and Alexandrian texts, but claims the Alexandrian text is the short first draft, and the Western text is a longer polished draft.

For Joseph and his supports of Imperial reform, besides encouraging any first buddings of pan-national pride that would unite his multi-lingual and ethnic subjects under one common language ; they also hoped to save a considerable amount of money in the process.

In 1957, it produced a pocket-sized radio ( the first to be fully transistorized ), and in 1958, Morita and Ibuka decided to rename their company Sony ( sonus is Latin for sound, and Sonny-boys the most common American expression ).

Most of the population () speaks German ( 477, 093 or 87. 1 %) as their first language, Italian is the second most common ( 17, 847 or 3. 3 %) and Serbo-Croatian is the third ( 10, 645 or 1. 9 %).

Then he came, in his words, to " the theory of symmetry: all governments and regimes to a first approximation are bad, all peoples are oppressed, and all are threatened by common dangers.

While it is common for scholars to state that Alexander was the first to write a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, it is not quite accurate.