Phillip assigned a convict, James Ruse, land at Rose Hill ( now Parramatta ) to establish proper farming, and when Ruse succeeded he received the first land grant in the colony.

Professional scholars were impressed by his work and in 1930 he received a grant to study the Nahuatl language in Mexico ; on his return home he presented several influential papers on the language at linguistic conferences.

In 1986 the republic received a grant from the French government's CCCE to renovate and expand Hahaya airport, near Moroni.

In 2005 Engelbart received a National Science Foundation grant to fund the open source HyperScope project.

de Garis received a US $ 0. 4 million " fat brain building grant " to develop this.

In 2008 de Garis received a 3 million Chinese yuan grant ( around $ 436, 000 ) to build an artificial brain for China ( the China-Brain Project ), as part of the Brain Builder Group at Wuhan University.

In 2002, Imation received a US $ 11. 9 million grant from the U. S. National Institute of Standards and Technology for research into increasing the data capacity of magnetic tape.

James had a controversial religious policy ; his attempt to grant freedom of religion to non-Anglicans by suspending acts of Parliament by royal decree was not well received.

Others received a land grant from the Mexican government and settled in the Guadalupe Valley in Baja California, Mexico.

But Paul Menesius, a Scotsman, who was the ambassador, could not obtain the grant or sanction of that title, though he was received with great magnificence and had many precious gifts to carry back to his master.

CMD has stated publicly on its site that it received a grant from OSI for a project researching national security issues.

Butler also received financial support in the form of a grant from King Charles II.

The first successful settlement of São Tomé was established in 1493 by Álvaro Caminha, who received the land as a grant from the crown.

In 1650, he went to Cambridge University, having received two exhibitions from St Paul's School ( perhaps owing to the influence of Sir George Downing, who was chairman of the judges and for whom he later worked at the exchequer ) and a grant from the Mercers Company.

In 2008 / 9 the BBC World Service received 12. 4 % of the department's £ 2. 2 billion budget and in the financial year 2011 / 12, the service received £ 255. 2 million from this grant.

Unsurprisingly from the start the two organisations that received the largest grant from the new body were the Royal Opera House and Sadler's Wells.

At Chicago, he had received a grant from the National Research Council ( NRC ) which had paid for much of his work on isotope separation.

He led a group of Dartmouth students to the Kingdom of Tonga and later received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to train radio personnel on the Micronesian islands of Chuuk and Phonpei to record and broadcast their own music.

Charles I ( 21 March 1226 – 7 January 1285 ), known also as Charles of Anjou, was the King of Sicily by conquest from 1266, though he had received it as a papal grant in 1262 and was expelled from the island in the aftermath of the Sicilian Vespers of 1282.

Taleyarkhan received from September 2008 to August 2009 a $ 185, 000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate bubble fusion.

In 1939, with the help of his agent, Audrey Wood, he was awarded a $ 1, 000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in recognition of his play Battle of Angels which was produced in Boston in 1940, but poorly received.

The Rockefeller grant gained him attention and Williams received a six month contract from the Metro Goldwyn Mayer film studio in Hollywood, earning $ 250 weekly.

After two years of research the newly formed Children's Television Workshop ( CTW ) received a combined grant of $ 8 million ($ million in dollars ) from the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the U. S. Federal Government to create and produce a new children's television show.

Development assistance from India has included a grant of US $ 100, 000 in June 2008 for a solar street lighting project in the capital city of Majuro and grant of 5 ITEC scholarships in 2010-11.

In June 2007, the Canadian High Commission in South Africa declined to grant Winnie Mandela a visa to travel to Toronto, Canada, where she was scheduled to attend a gala fundraising concert organised by arts organisation MusicaNoir, which included the world premiere of The Passion of Winnie, an opera based on her life.

), was given a grant of land by King Nunna ; the document included King Watt as a witness.

In 1665, Mayhew's lands were included in a grant to the Duke of York.

In 1665, Mayhew's lands were included in a grant to the Duke of York.

Sutter obtained the Rancho New Helvetia Mexican land grant, and called his first settlement New Helvetia ( which included the present day city of Sacramento ).

It included " all the land in Virginia between the Rappahannock and the Potomac rivers ", an old grant from King Charles II which overlapped and included Frederick County.

The county was included in the 1841 Republic of Texas empresario Peters Colony land grant.

The first grant was made there in 1752, and included the huge overhanging mass of rock from which the creek takes its name.

Land in that grant is included in the present boundary of Henderson County.

Originally Frisbee included many of Norman's songs, but EMI, who owns most of Norman's songs, did not grant release to the filmmaker.

Additional expenditures involved in constructing the Northeast Opelika Industrial Park included $ 4. 3 million transferred from the City's general fund to the Opelika Industrial Development Authority ( OIDA ) between 1997 and 2000, a $ 1. 9 million federal industrial park access road grant, $ 2. 5 million from Opelika Water Works Board and the City of Opelika to sewer and water the park, $ 12. 1 million from the Alabama Department of Transportation to construct an interchange.

The land area, that was to become the present-day Saraland, was included in a Spanish land grant to Don Diego Alvarez.

This land grant included Hayward, San Lorenzo, and Castro Valley, including Crow Canyon, Cull Canyon, and Palomares Canyons.

In 1824 the Alhambra Valley was included in the Rancho El Pinole Mexican land grant to Ygnacio Martínez.

Principal portions of San Marino were included in an 1830 Mexican land grant to Señora Victoria Reid, a Native-American woman and the widow of Hugo Reid, who called it Rancho Huerta de Cuati.

Parts of Hobe Sound were included in the of the Gomez grant given by Spain to Don Eusebio in 1815.

The terms of the grant included the purchase of a new site for the College, payment of all outstanding obligations, and the construction of a building to be named after him.

Both men apparently settled on lands that had been given to Declouet by a Spanish land grant dated May 16, 1772, that included some of land.

It was included in the 1750 grant made by the Massachusetts General Court to Captain Moses Pearson, Captain Humphrey Hobbs and their respective companies of soldiers for services during the French and Indian Wars.

The land encompassing the Chocksett region was not originally included in the first land sold by the great Indian Chief Sholan to the settlers of the Lancaster grant.

The original grant included the eastern portion ( north of Wentworth's Location ) now known separately as Dix's Grant.