* In The Fellowship of the Ring, Boromir is described: " On a baldric he wore a great horn tipped with silver that now was laid upon his knees.

His home is Glitnir, its name, meaning " shining ," referring to its silver ceiling and golden pillars, which radiated light that could be seen from a great distance.

Herbert Hoover, acting as a main investor, financier, mining speculator and organizer of men, played a major role in the important metallurgical developments that occurred in Broken Hill in the first decade of the twentieth century, developments that had a great impact on the world mining and production of silver, lead and zinc.

* 1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.

Gold and silver were especially plentiful, and were found in great quantities in the Western Carpathians.

* Jew's harp: An instrument often known for its historical purpose for men " serenading " their sweethearts, It even went to the extent of being repeatedly banned for its " endangerment on female virtue ", it is also believed that it was banned because of its construction of silver, and due to the great demand on silver in the 19th Century Austria this was another reason for its outlawing.

It was during this period also that European colonization of the Americas began in earnest, including the exploitation of the fabulously wealthy silver deposits of Potosí in Upper Peru and Mexico which resulted in great bouts of inflation as wealth was drawn into Europe from the rest of the world.

* Spanish silver mines open in Latin America ; thus begins the great silver flow that links the New and Old Worlds.

Following the Spanish discovery of great silver deposits at Potosí in Bolivia and in Mexico during the 16th century, international trade came to depend on coins such as the Spanish dollar, Maria Theresa thaler, and, in the 1870s, the United States Trade dollar.

The destruction which ensued during the expulsion of the Greek population has been excavated by modern archaeologists and the finds are central to the great controversy of the introduction of the Roman denarius silver coinage.

Although the Riksdag of the Estates of 1840 meditated compelling him to abdicate, Charles John survived that abdication controversy and he went on to have his silver jubilee, which was celebrated with great enthusiasm on 18 February 1843.

It was also during her reign that a great number of silver and gold objects were produced, the most the country had seen thus far in its history.

Low amounts of resources plagued the state, as they used a great deal of silver for the antoninianus, which was now reduced in weight.

While his and others ' attacks brought home a great deal of money, they hardly dented the flow of gold and silver from Mexico to Spain.

This included a great number of gold and silver sculptures, which were melted down before transport to Europe.

Finally, with the silver deposits — being mined at Schwaz — to work with and his mint at Hall, Sigismund issued, in 1486, large numbers of the first true Thaler-sized coin, the Guldengroschen ( great gulden, being of silver but equal in value to a Goldgulden ).

Margaret Thatcher, on receiving the news, hailed him as ' a very remarkable man and a very great patriot ', and said that his dislike of ' selling the family silver ' had never come between them.

She told him that his father was Elatha, one of the Kings of the Fomorians ; that he had come to her one time over a level sea in a great vessel that seemed to be of silver ; that he himself had the appearance of a young man with yellow hair, his clothes decked with gold and five rings of gold around his neck.

A great attraction is the 18th century silver swan automaton, which periodically preens itself, looks round and appears to catch and swallow a fish.

Particularly in the early stages, a prime motivating factor for the conquistadores was their interest in seizing great quantities of precious metals, such as gold and silver.

However, the ducal family still entertain in the state rooms, and dine on special occasions in the saloon, around the great silver centrepiece depicting the 1st Duke of Marlborough on horseback — the same piece that Consuelo Vanderbilt liked to call her cache mari because it conveniently hid her detested husband, across the table, from view.

Though inflation spiked again after Russia ’ s 1998 currency devaluation, Moldova made great strides in bringing it under control: 18. 4 % in 2000, 6. 3 % in 2001, and 4. 4 % in 2002.

As such, following the great silver devaluation of 1873, the Philippine unit devalued in parallel with the Mexican unit, and by the end of the 19th century, the Philippine unit was worth 50 cents in relation to the U. S. dollar.

Though successful in its first years, it suffered a hard economic blow during the 1999 currency exchange devaluation crisis, and a great decrease in traffic, following a world trend, in the second semester of 2001.

We may take as our unit for study an actual historical case of great dis-equilibrium, such as, say, the panic of 1873 ; or we may take as our unit for study any constituent tendency, such as, say, deflation, and discover its general laws, relations to, and combinations with, other tendencies.

The samurai class suffered great disappointment the following years, when in January the Conscription Law of 1873 was passed.

In his reminiscence of 1873 Israel Jefferson, former slave at Monticello, recalled a conversation Lafayette had when visiting Thomas Jefferson in 1824, " Lafayette remarked that he thought that the slaves ought to be free ; that no man could rightly hold ownership of his brother man ; that he gave his best services to and spent his money on behalf of the Americans freely because he felt that they were fighting for a great and noble principle-the freedom of mankind ; that instead of all being free a portion were held in bondage ( which seemed to grieve his noble heart ); that it would be mutually beneficial to masters and slaves if the latter were educated, and so on.

In 1873, Young again alluded to the doctrine publicly, and indicated that when Adam came to the earth, he left behind many wives other than Eve at the place from which Adam came ; however, he said he was " not disposed to give any farther knowledge concerning … he great and glorious doctrine that pertains to this ".

Apart from his academic labours in connection with the history of dogma and of the church, he lived a life of great and varied usefulness as a theologian, a preacher and a citizen ; and at his jubilee in 1873, not only the university and town of Basel but also the various churches of Switzerland united to do him honour.

Greed of gold, social moralization, ultramontanism, lust of power, these are satirized Les Effrontés ( 1861 ), Le Fils de Giboyer ( 1862 ), La Contagion announced under the title of Le Baron d ' Estrigaud ( 1866 ), Lions et renards ( 1869 )-which, with Le Gendre de Monsieur Poirier ( 354 ), written in collaboration with Jules Sandeau, reach the high water mark of Augier's art ; in Philiberte ( 1853 ), he produced a graceful and delicate drawing-room comedy ; and in Jean de Thommeray, acted in 1873 after the great reverses of 1870, the regenerating note of patriotism rings high and clear.

His sharp tongue had already made him an enemy of Roebuck, and he disgusted the friends of Mill by the stories he raked up for an obituary notice of the great economist ( The Times, May 10, 1873 ).

His enthusiasm for the subject was so great that he traveled to Germany in July 1930 to meet with Hugo Otto Georg Hans Westphal ( August 26, 1873 – September 15, 1934 ), a great-grandson of Accum's.

In 1852 he moved to Göttingen, whence he issued three years later the first instalment of his great Handbook of Systematic Human Anatomy, the last volume of which was not published until 1873.

# Mary Catherine ( 1849 – 1935 ), who m. 1873 the great modernist theologian, Baron ( Freiherr ) Friedrich von Hügel.

A translation which had been started by a government official was finished by Sir Sayyid's great friend, Colonel G. F. I. Graham, and finally published in 1873.

Gold discoveries in Australia in 1851 drove the silver dollar out of the West Indies, but it returned again with the great depreciation in the value of silver that followed with Germany's transition to the gold standard between 1871 and 1873.

It was exhibited at a great industrial exhibition in Copenhagen in 1873, at the world exhibition in Vienna in 1873, and at the Paris exhibition or Exposition Universelle.

The Coinage Act of 1873 in America was met with great opposition by farmers and miners, as silver was seen as more of a monetary benefit to rural areas than to banks in big cities.

Ouseley's works, which are little known today, include a second oratorio, Hagar ( Hereford, 1873 ), a great number of services and anthems, cantatas, chamber music, organ pieces and songs.

The presence of the a local railway station connecting it with Auckland, opened in 1873 after the completion of the first Parnell Tunnel, was also a great advantage.

The first flow of water reached Gold Hill and Virginia City on August 1, 1873 with great fanfare.

In April 1873, Mueller had created the genus Guilfoylia and described William Guilfoyle as " distinguished as a collector evidenced great ardour " and held high hopes for his collecting ability.

During a great part of his career Heer was hampered by slender means and ill-health, but his services to science were acknowledged in 1873 when the Geological Society of London awarded to him the Wollaston medal.

However, Conkling had a great reputation as a trial lawyer, and he had once before ( in 1873 ) been offered the chief justiceship by President Ulysses S. Grant.

Because the great mineral resources of the region hadn't been fully realized yet, the C & O suffered through the bad times brought on by the Financial Panic of 1873, and went into receivership in 1878.

Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ) and Nelson Annandale ( 1876 – 1924 ) made great contributions working out of the Asiatic Society while Sir Norman Boyd Kinnear ( 1882 – 1957 ) worked at the BNHS.