Though Canadian-born, she was a powerful symbol of Americana, kissing the American flag for cameras and auctioning one of her world-famous curls for $ 15, 000.

After Mantle's death, Greer Johnson was taken to federal court in November 1997 by the Mantle family to stop her from auctioning many of Mantle's personal items, including a lock of hair, a neck brace, and expired credit cards.

They began auctioning lots and just three years later the city of Selma was formally incorporated.

Basiliscus was forced to raise heavy taxes, and to revert to the practice of auctioning the offices, obviously causing a diffuse discontent in the population.

He was still serving in Syria when news came through firstly of the murder of Pertinax, followed by the auctioning off of the imperial title to Didius Julianus.

* Verdi, Rigoletto ( Act IV only, 1944 ; from World War II Red Cross benefit concert held in Madison Square Garden, with the combined forces of the New York Philharmonic and the NBC Symphony ; the entire concert, complete with an auctioning of one of Toscanini's batons, was released on an unofficial recording in 1995 )

The buyer reportedly was an " international consortium " and the seller was a financial firm auctioning the stamp to pay the former owner's debt.

On October 19, 2006, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Premiere Pictures was auctioning off the rights to the film on eBay for a minimum bid of $ 550, 000.

Non-Muslims auctioning off their furniture to pay for the tax. The bill for the one-off tax was proposed by the Şükrü Saracoğlu government, and the act was adopted by the Turkish parliament on November 11, 1942.

In May 2012, Pocklington announced his family was auctioning memorabilia from his time as owner of the Oilers, including his rings from their Stanley Cup championships.

Doggett supported the 2009 climate-change bill, “ despite claiming it didn't do enough to protect the environment .” He said it stripped the EPA of too much power and was too beneficial to coal plants and “ other polluters .” Doggett supports auctioning carbon allowances, and has worked to make legislation usually associated with the House Ways and Means Committee to be associated with the Energy and Commerce Committee.

In the beginning, there was no organized listing or stock exchange ; the Børs served as a meeting place for investors auctioning ships, shares in ships, commodities, and foreign currencies.

The film also used the plot device of auctioning of a Fabergé egg at Sotheby's from " The Property of a Lady " and, as with the story, the auction item was described as being the same " property of a lady ".

He was accused of auctioning jobs, pocketing state funds and running illegal factories for his own enrichment ; his wife Tamara, nicknamed Queen Tamara after the famous Georgian medieval queen, became known for her tastes in expensive jewellery and antiques.

This type of attraction was continued in the work of the American Dime Museum operated for eight years before closing permanently and auctioning off its exhibits in late February 2007.

The discovery of the linkage principle was most useful in determining optimal strategy for countries in the process of auctioning off drilling rights ( as well as other natural resources, such as logging rights in Canada ).

In the auctioning off of FM radio frequencies called ZeroBase, Holland Media Group acquired a lot allowing them to broadcast a popular music station virtually nationwide ; this station was called Yorin FM with its most notable DJs being Rob Stenders, Robert Jensen and Henk Westbroek.

SimplexDiam Inc. of New York City was entrusted with auctioning the residual diamonds from the fine jewelry division.

On February 3, 2010, It was announced that John Carter Racing ( formerly Carter Simo Racing ) due to not finding sponsorship for the race team will be auctioning off all the equipment, Parts and Race car haulers as well as all three race cars Including the 2009 race car that ran at Homestead Miami Speedway at the 2009 season ending race.

* In an episode of The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, being joshed by non-Mafia individuals, asked if he ever met John Gotti, replies that he did meet Gotti once at an auction when Bungalow Bar declared bankrputcy and was auctioning off their trucks.

The large auction houses, such as Sotheby's and Christie's maintain large online databases of art which they have auctioned or are auctioning.

They estimate that more than half of the $ 907 million preexisting taxes could have been eliminated by auctioning off the permits rather than grandfathering them.

With the advent of online auctioning services like eBay, price guides have seen dramatic declines in sales because their price listings were not reflective of the actual sale prices of comics.

In late January 2010, having been deeply touched by the tragic 2010 Haiti earthquake earlier in the same month, Emmanuel announced that he would be auctioning off three guitars, that he personally played and owned, on eBay, in order to raise money to donate to UNICEF in Haiti.

When ITIO's lease expired, the United States government supervised the public auctioning of leases for 160-acre tracts.

Hepburn made a public show of austerity by auctioning off the chauffeur driven limousines used by the previous Conservative cabinet.

He announced that his group Blink-182, will be auctioning off items to benefit the American Red Cross on EBay.

On April 3 the same year, the mayor and the city council of Eckernförde issued an official proclamation about the auctioning off of the Count's remaining effects in case no living relative would appear within a designated time period to lay claim on them.

The auction has begun, and Gunther and Esmé are on the stage auctioning off Lot # 46.

The area has also experienced significant interest in oil and mineral development, most notably with the proposed Pebble Mine on the north shore of Iliamna Lake, and auctioning of leases to tracts in the southern Bristol Bay area known as the North Aleutians Basin, an area which has been closed to offshore oil and gas development since a moratorium in 1998.

The organization decided initially to address funding with a multi-faceted approach that included approaching Mitel and the Royal Bank of Canada for cash sponsorships, approaching several partners for hardware donations, setting up a sponsor database, applying for municipal grants, recognizing donors on-line, updating on-line donation information, creating a webpage on activities, and auctioning off fifty-eight pieces of Microsoft software and five pieces of Corel Corporation software.

Bijlani and Maya set on auctioning Rahul's house as revenge.

After the company filed for Chapter 7, Great American Group Inc. held an auction on Tuesday August 17, 2010 at the Wilsonville, Oregon headquarters of Movie Gallery, auctioning away the company's equipment.

Emission permit auctioning began in September 2008, and the first three-year compliance period began on January 1, 2009.

Sheriff Solano also took on drunk driving issues when he fought for local ordinances allowing for the taking and auctioning of repeat offenders automobiles and the placement of breath test machines in local liquor establishments.

Tom Leonard ( on the podium, left ) Christmas 1949, auctioning holly wreaths in the Dublin Fruit and Vegetable Markets.

In Q3 2010, the national regulator announced the auctioning process for 4G licenses in which Tele2 will participate.

The auctioning body is usually the local government, which claims no interest to the property whatsoever, but is selling only to recover the unpaid taxes without extending any warranty for the property title.

She is perhaps most famous for auctioning off 20 works, many with her as a subject, which were bestowed upon her during the secret love affair with Picasso in the 1950s.

Praetorian Guards had come to the point when they simply sold the throne of, by auctioning it to the highest bidder, selling it to one of the richest Romans at the time, Didius Julianus.

This upset commercial radio stations who were also trying to make the switch from AM to FM, but were delayed by the New Zealand Government who were slowly auctioning off commercial frequencies to commercial broadcasters.