The equation was simple: wealth brought them happiness, and their united front to the world was their warning that they meant to keep everything they had, let no one in on the secrets.

These travels brought him wealth and added to his experience.

The reality is that Micheline Musseli Pozzo di Borgo, a French aristocrat who at 20 was France's youngest lawyer ever, brought considerable wealth to her marriage to Lerner and lost most of it through him, including nearly $ 600, 000 from the sale of her Parisian apartment, which Lerner placed in investments that either failed or were looted by him during periods of financial desperation.

After a couple of centuries, emperors could no longer take anyone from outside such families as primary wife, no matter what the expediency of such a marriage and power or wealth brought by such might have been.

The industrial developments, while they brought work and wealth, were so rapid that housing, town-planning, and provision for public health did not keep pace with them, and for a time living conditions in some of the towns and cities were notoriously bad, with overcrowding, high infant mortality, and growing rates of tuberculosis.

The vast wealth of Bengal was depleted and brought East giving Sher Shah a substantial war chest.

Shortly after he had begun to practice, the discovery of coal beneath the Duffryn and other Aberdare Valley estates brought his family great wealth.

This created a merchant class and brought wealth to the inhabitants of the region.

Although the oil discoveries of the 1960s have brought it immense petroleum wealth, at the time of its independence it was an extremely poor desert state whose only important physical asset appeared to be its strategic location at the midpoint of Africa's northern rim.

During this time, strict programs imposed to satisfy demands of the International Monetary Fund brought increased hardship upon the country's population while elites close to the government supposedly lived in growing wealth.

The reign of Ahmad al-Mansur brought new wealth and prestige to the Sultanate, and an invasion of the Songhay Empire was initiated.

The Qing government's decision to turn the banner troops into a professional force whose every welfare and need was met by state coffers brought wealth, and with it corruption, to the rank and file of the Manchu Banners and hastened its decline as a fighting force.

They traded across the region, and brought much wealth to their kingdom.

With flourishing commercial centers now under Georgia's control, industry and commerce brought new wealth to the country and the court.

Livy gives due attention to the plundered wealth of statuary, gold and silver, but particular weight to the specialist chefs, flute girls, one-legged tables and other " dinner-party amusements " brought to Rome from exotic Galatia for the ( putative ) triumph of Gnaeus Manlius Vulso in 187 BCE.

Isabella's wardrobe gives some indications of her wealth and style – she had gowns of baudekyn, velvet, taffeta and cloth, along with numerous furs ; she had over 72 headdresses and coifs ; she brought with her two gold crowns, gold and silver dinnerware and 419 yards of linen.

Gold brought great wealth but also new social tensions.

Elsewhere in Africa, trouble developed in Nigeria, brought about by the ethnic diversity of the country and the wealth being generated by the nascent oil industry.

The 1840s brought trade and wealth to the Amazon.

Her wealth and persona also brought attention to women who were serving in government.

She re-established international trading relationships lost during a foreign occupation and brought great wealth to Egypt.

It afforded her with many opportunities to laud herself, but it also reflects the wealth that her policies and administration brought to Egypt, enabling her to finance such projects.

The writing of the song is contemporaneous with the publication of Cecil Rhodes ' will — in which he bequeathed his considerable wealth for the specific purpose of promoting " the extension of British rule throughout the world ", and added a long detailed list of territories which Rhodes wanted brought under British rule and colonised by British people.

A ford, and later bridge, of the River Forth at Stirling brought wealth and strategic influence, as did its port.

The largest boomtown in the America southwest, the silver industry and attendant wealth attracted many professionals and merchants who brought their wives and families.

Thousands of people arrived in the town looking for oil wealth.

In order to symbolize his new wealth and power, he built the Golden Roof, a canopy overlooking the town center of Innsbruck, from which to watch the festivities celebrating his assumption of rule over Tyrol.

Excavations undertaken by the Monmouth Archaeological Society on sites along Monnow Street have uncovered a wealth of information about the early history of the town.

Much of the wealth on which the city of Manchester, and surrounding towns, was built in the late eighteenth century, and for much of the nineteenth century, was based on the processing of slave-picked cotton .. Other British cities also profited from the slave trade. Birmingham, the largest gun producing town in Britain at the time, supplied guns to be traded for slaves.

There were also merchants of moderate wealth in the town and especially wool merchants, such as Laurence of Ludlow, who lived at nearby Stokesay Castle.

After 1610, the cloth industry declined but the wealth of the town was little affected until about 1640, when the activities of the Council were suspended and the town's population promptly fell by 20 %.

The wool export trade began to decline in the fifteenth century as the industry shifted to the value-adding business of weaving, which was conducted in other parts of the country, the Hansa merchants quit the town, and Boston's wealth declined.

The Montpellier school of medicine owed its success to the ruling of the Guilhems, lords of the town, by which any licensed physician might lecture there ; there was no fixed limit to the number of teachers, lectures were multiplied, and there was a great wealth of teaching.

Abruzzo's wealth of castles and medieval towns, especially around the town of L ' Aquila, has earned it in some quarters the nickname of " Abruzzoshire ", by analogy with the " Chiantishire ", nickname sometimes used to refer to the Chianti area of Tuscany, but Abruzzo is still off the beaten path for most visitors to Italy.

By the 15th century Southwold was an important town in its own right, and the church was rebuilt to match its power and wealth.

Mecosta County has grown in population through the years to over 42, 000 with a wealth of opportunity in industry, education, and small town country living.

Mecosta County has grown in population through the years to over 42, 000, with a wealth of opportunity in industry, education, and small town country living.

Yarmouth is an antient town, much older than Norwich ; and at present, tho ' not standing on so much ground, yet better built ; much more compleat ; for number of inhabitants, not much inferior ; and for wealth, trade, and advantage of its situation, infinitely superior to Norwich.

The greatest defect of this beautiful town, seems to be, that tho ' it is very rich and encreasing in wealth and trade, and consequently in people, there is not room to enlarge the town by building ; which would be certainly done much more than it is, but that the river on the land-side prescribes them, except at the north end without the gate ....

The architecture of the old section of town reflects its long history ; walls and foundations from the Roman Empire are still common, together with a wealth of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque structures, often artistically decorated, showing centuries of stability and prosperity.

Though few amassed a great deal of wealth, the city prospered due to Joseph Folsom's lobbying to get a railway to connect the town with Sacramento.

At the same time, this same inventory shows the growing affluence in the town, a reflection of the town ’ s agricultural wealth and growing mill activity.

With additional wealth derived from cotton and lumber, the town grew and was incorporated in 1885.

The citizens of Iron City thought that the discovery would bring great wealth to the people of the town.

Despite being a relatively small town, Wassenaar is well known in the Netherlands as a result of its conspicuous wealth.

The Dutch artists Ross and Iba released a song entitled ' Wassenaar ,' which poked fun at the wealth of the town.

While Butler may have been responsible for the first ore strike, it took men of wealth and power to consolidate the mines and reinvest their profits into the infrastructure of the town of Tonopah.

Holmes also used his wealth to improve the town, one example was when he donated the land and purchased the equipment to begin the firehouse in South Boonton.