And the huge sliding doors on both sides allow for the kind of access normally offered by the cargo holds of large merchant ships. |
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And these particular rooms were aired only for a barbarian envoy or a member of the merchant class. |
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Like most merchant houses, Yin Yu Tang was built to discourage attacks by marauding bandits and soldiers. |
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People hurried back and forth, wrapped in cloaks or swirling capes behind them, in peasant wear or merchant finery. |
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As well as being the senior ensign of the King's ships, the red ensign was also worn by merchant ships. |
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If you are a Muttrah merchant you must be equally versatile at least in rupees, annas, naya peis, dollars, pounds, baizas, dinars. |
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The merchant prince, rich off trade during the wars, had spared no expense when building his grand manse. |
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The size and number of sawpits would be determined by the ability of the timber merchant to acquire material and employ sawyers. |
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It serves as a timely reminder of the bravery and determination of the Royal Navy and merchant seamen. |
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I work in internet advertising so sometimes the spam merchant techniques to grab people's attention will perk my interest. |
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He was as smooth a talker as any merchant in the city streets and knew how to sell many an idea to men. |
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On receiving that guarantee, the merchant bank would open a letter of credit in favour of Medrom and Medrom would ship the goods. |
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Thousands more merchant seafarers were to lose their lives on the convoys that followed. |
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The Presbyterian merchant sought to follow ethical principles in all his business affairs and to make merchandising a public service. |
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This successful woodenware and willowware merchant was a dedicated philanthropist. |
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Navy ships armed with missiles and machine guns now escort high value merchant vessels, such as cruise ships and tankers. |
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Four rigid-inflatable boats then went after the merchant vessel, zipping across the waves until they pulled level on the starboard side. |
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The law was originally designed to protect the merchant navy from financial ruin during wartime. |
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He designed merchant ships and warships which were later to play a major role in the Second World War. |
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These ships accounted for the sinking or damaging of a number of warships and merchant ships. |
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You have to wonder about the horrific irony of the death merchant confronting the loss of his own son. |
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The merchant community organized a run on the banks, and the Government gave in. |
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In a final excerpt, the merchant issues a stern warning to his fellow countrymen. |
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He examines the issue of merchant ships being used as Royal Navy auxiliaries for commerce raiding and patrol duties. |
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In the medieval period there was no absolute distinction between merchant ships and warships. |
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She shoved past a merchant selling amulets to ward against evil entities and demonic sprites. |
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Yet, in 1914 the Navy appropriated sixty-nine merchant ships for use as auxiliary cruisers. |
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The number can be used from anywhere in the world, when dealing with any merchant who accepts Visa. |
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Around this time, Stephen Smith, a lumber merchant from Pennsylvania, was the largest shareholder in a thrift named Columbia Bank. |
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He was certainly a member of the merchant gild by 1385, when he was also renting from the gild a room on the common quay. |
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When the war started many young men enlisted in the armed forces and the merchant marines. |
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His square-rigged ship with the cross and bones flying from the mizzenmast was a feared sight in the eyes of captains of merchant barques. |
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Its merchant network includes 11.7 million merchants and spans 190 countries and territories. |
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Jeremy had often told her that her father had been a merchant who kept shop near the barracks. |
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Hannah's father, David, is a coal merchant and the family live in a three-bedroom semi. |
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Dorothea Dix was born in Hampden, Maine, the daughter of an alcoholic Methodist preacher who was the black sheep of a wealthy merchant family. |
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The gun merchant asked for an initial order of 300 grips, and Lane set about tooling up for the project. |
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She was a prosperous merchant and creative free spirit, a poet and a wordsmith. |
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Who could it be other than the grain merchant sitting cross-legged on his bench above the shop's mastaba? |
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The apparent juxtaposition of literati and merchant culture at opposite ends of the east wall is misleading. |
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He's apprenticing as a merchant in Olbeer now, so I only hope he's not getting into trouble. |
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The sleek-looking spice merchant was smoking kalian after kalian in dreamy contemplation of his assistant waiting on customers. |
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Mercenaries had grown exponentially, and trade routes were risky, the merchant ships pillaged. |
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The crew of both remaining cockleshells placed limpet mines on the merchant ships they found in the harbour. |
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Witney woolmen in the early 15th century included John Hood, a subsidy commissioner and possibly a merchant of the Staple. |
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Can't quite face the serried ranks of lilac-tulle-clad duchesses and hordes of merchant bankers being corporately entertained? |
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Underwater explosives and limpet mines, among other weapons, are considered as potential threats to merchant and military shipping. |
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Thus, the potential of global exposure to global communication, the dream of every merchant in history, has arrived. |
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But it was for his successful plundering of Spanish merchant ships that he was knighted. |
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If you are stuck for ideas, just ask your local wine merchant for recommendations. |
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A charming 1909 postcard of the wife of a Wolof merchant wearing a dyed wrapper introduces her essay. |
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However, it also led to fewer targets as many merchant ships in the area refused to sail the Sea of Marmora. |
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Once the proud residences of merchant princes and princelings, they have fallen sadly from grace. |
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The man is a merchant of death and, despite his efforts to distance himself, he knows that what he is doing is wrong. |
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Indeed, once storage costs are deducted from overall marketing costs, merchant capital is able to charge a small but positive markup. |
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Submarines were attacked by aircraft, airships, mines, Naval vessels and merchant ships. |
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The fine-wine merchant is the place to go if you want to buy and cellar great vintage wines. |
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So both nations initiated design projects to mount their ballistic missiles on merchant vessels or on warships. |
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Donaldson's alter ego was a wet fish merchant who specialised in writing brash, outrageous letters to eminent public figures, enclosing a one pound note. |
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The last stamp shows the proud sailing ship Royal Merchant, one of three vessels that, in 1591, opens up the merchant route from England to India. |
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Told in a dream of his impending return home, he made his way to the coast and joined a merchant ship, facing many dangers before rejoining his family. |
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He was born in Exeter on March 25th, 1545, the eldest son of John Bodley, a Protestant merchant who during the reign of Mary Tudor sought refuge with his family in Geneva. |
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With a fountain trickling in the atrium, and the different parts of the house going off from the center, it was grander than what any merchant in Greece had. |
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The diary's favourite balls-up merchant is still Danny, though. |
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It is not enough to tell the merchant to manage his business properly. |
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A woman with a grimy kerchief covering her salt-and-pepper hair barters over a sack of dried lentils with a tall merchant crowned with a scarlet turban. |
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Built of English oak and Cornish elm, they are traditionally designed and locally built rowing boats originally used to deliver pilots to incoming merchant ships. |
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The texts, written by merchant seamen for a poetry competition, are strikingly direct, and are telling in Martyn Hill's sympathetic rendering and admirably clear articulation. |
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Other tasks which fall to St Albans include a readiness to protect other Allied warships or merchant vessels passing through the region, and to keep sea lanes open. |
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Ninety per cent of the merchant navy had to be handed over, along with 10 per cent of the cattle and a substantial proportion of the rolling stock of the state railway. |
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This is the perfect location for this show because William Hadwen was a merchant who retailed silver and other goods on Nantucket during the early nineteenth century. |
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At this stage in history, the merchant class, desperate for money to finance their adventures, struggled with the monopoly of the moneylenders and overcame it. |
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On the Chinese side, the Canton authorities limited trade with the foreign merchants to a group of Chinese merchant houses, the Hongs, nominally thirteen in number. |
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If a merchant give an agent corn, wool, oil, or any other goods to transport, the agent shall give a receipt for the amount, and compensate the merchant therefor. |
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If anyone delays in payment, the bailiffs shall without hesitation rigorously seize the goods and chattels of the deceiver and satisfy the merchant for payment. |
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He was picked up nine miles south-east of the Isle of Man by a merchant vessel after his life raft drifted for about 20 hours from close to his home port of Kilkeel. |
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Whistling, the merchant threw himself against a particularly large pile, relishing in the feeling of comfort, wiggling out of his overly large boots and stretching. |
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Nato and European Union anti-piracy missions have been deployed to repel attacks and give safe passage to merchant and humanitarian shipping traffic. |
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Nearby a scrap merchant was weighing a crate full of spent shell-cases. |
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Ten merchant ships were used as armed merchant raiders, or auxiliary cruisers, and a few were employed as blockade runners between Japan and Germany. |
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Joining them across the United States were lumbermen, fishermen, merchant marines, taxicab drivers, and inmates at Folsom, Attica, and Statesville. |
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About 1340 Sir John de Pulteney, a London merchant and financier and four times mayor of London, constructed a splendid house of Wealden sandstone. |
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Her father had been a wayfaring Dutch merchant from Antwerp. |
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The founder of perhaps Scotland's only quality independent wine merchant is expanding the business and needs people with a passion for the grape and the grain. |
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Like the wine merchant they were all avid for news, but had little to give him in return, certainly no chance mention of a priceless jewelled mask. |
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A 58 year old Indian merchant working in an African country was admitted to hospital with severe retrosternal pain radiating upwards and down the right arm. |
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Britain's biggest advantage over its rivals in the naval arms race was the greater size of its merchant marine and resultant pool of trained seamen. |
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Ships' captains needed skilled seamen not unskilled landsmen, there is no doubt that the great majority of pressed men were seamen, usually from the merchant marine. |
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In the Pacific Theater of World War II, Japanese merchant ships rarely traveled in convoys. |
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As a result, the Japanese merchant fleet was largely destroyed by the end of the war. |
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The IMO is also responsible for publishing the International Code of Signals for use between merchant and naval vessels. |
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A 1499 voyage, led by merchant William Weston of Bristol, was the first expedition commanded by an Englishman to North America. |
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The immediate postwar period saw a severe reduction in warship orders which was balanced by a prolonged boom in merchant shipbuilding. |
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From 1715 to 1728, pirate activity created problems for merchant ships along the trade routes, thus halting growth during that period. |
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A vast majority of pirates also came from the crews of captured merchant vessels. |
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These gains were impossible to achieve in the navy or working on merchant ships. |
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Pirates were mostly former merchant seamen, or at least men who had sailed on vessels legitimately before turning to piracy. |
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Shipboard discipline aboard merchant and naval vessels was notoriously harsh, and, more often than not, violent. |
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They were merchant seamen, sailors in the royal navy, and privateers, all of whom would form into a pirate crew. |
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Captain George Lowthar used deception, pretending to be a friendly merchantman, came aboard a fellow merchant ship to extend customary greetings. |
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His father was a successful merchant with an interest in literature who died when he was quite young. |
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A sea shanty, chantey, or chanty is a type of work song that was once commonly sung to accompany labor on board large merchant sailing vessels. |
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In the first place, singing while working was generally limited to merchant ships, not war ships. |
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Fife and fiddle were also used, in earlier times, for work aboard merchant vessels. |
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Canadian merchant seamen have won the Victoria Cross and the Medal of Honor. |
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Pilots are also merchant marine officers and are licensed by the Coast Guard. |
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The flag in a white border occasionally seen on merchant ships was sometimes referred to as the Pilot Jack. |
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The causes included political disputes and increasing competition from merchant shipping. |
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Pirate galleys were small, nimble, lightly armed, but often heavily manned in order to overwhelm the often minimal crews of merchant ships. |
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In East Asia by the ninth century, populations centered mostly around merchant activities in coastal Shandong and Jiangsu provinces. |
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In the following War of Spanish Succession, privateer attacks continued, Britain losing 3,250 merchant ships. |
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I have seen the Rus as they came on their merchant journeys and encamped by the Itil. |
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In addition to the major Kontors, individual Hanseatic ports had a representative merchant and warehouse. |
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Many locals, merchant and noble alike, envied the power of the league and tried to diminish it. |
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Sergius Orata of the Roman Republic is considered the first major merchant and cultivator of oysters. |
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The merchant was much interested in my journey, and thought it dangerous to sleep afield. |
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Even the curly-haired boys from merchant families, very much to the disgust of their parents, fraternized with Coloured girls. |
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In this, they resembled the alien merchant guilds and hanses of the medieval period. |
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Commerce was flourishing in the kingdom and the rising merchant class was made up largely of haole rather than Hawaiians. |
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Important overseas colonies, a vast merchant marine, powerful navy and large profits made the Dutch the main challengers to an ambitious England. |
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It took seven more weeks for the boats to reach Kola where they were rescued by a Russian merchant vessel. |
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Tasman, his navigator Visscher, and his merchant Gilsemans also mapped substantial portions of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. |
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A merchant named Fedot Alekseyev Popov organized a further expedition eastward, and Semyon Dezhnyov became a captain of one of the kochi. |
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Planning for a massive Spring Offensive in 1918, it resumed the sinking of all merchant ships without warning. |
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Thereafter, the world ranking of the Norwegian merchant navy fell from fourth place to sixth in the world. |
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At the time of the invasion, Norway had the 4th largest merchant marine fleet in the world. |
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From there, it was most likely carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships. |
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Medieval fleets, in England as elsewhere, were almost entirely composed of merchant ships enlisted into naval service in time of war. |
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For much of the war this submarine campaign was restricted by prize rules requiring merchant ships to be warned and evacuated before sinking. |
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The Norwegian merchant fleet, then the fourth largest in the world, was organized into Nortraship to support the Allied cause. |
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Domestic offtake further reduced silver in circulation as the improving fortunes of the merchant class led to increased demand for tablewares. |
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Henry Thornton, a merchant banker and monetary theorist has been described as the father of the modern central bank. |
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One factor was the longer range of newer merchant ships that required less frequent refuelling stops. |
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Its use indicated that the speaker was a merchant or someone from an urban area, regardless of nationality. |
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Peter Waldo of Lyon was a wealthy merchant who gave up his riches around 1175 after a religious experience and became a preacher. |
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Teach captured a French merchant vessel, renamed her Queen Anne's Revenge, and equipped her with 40 guns. |
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Holbein portrays the merchant Georg Gisze among elaborate symbols of science and wealth that evoke the sitter's personal iconography. |
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Since World War II, a number of merchant seamen have become notorious criminals. |
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During the War of Austrian Succession, Britain lost 3,238 merchant ships and France lost 3,434 merchant ships to the British. |
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Throughout the American Civil War, Confederate privateers successfully harassed Union merchant ships. |
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Though it varies by country, generally peacetime law in the 20th and 21st centuries has not allowed merchant vessels to carry weapons. |
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Since robbery under arms was common to seaborne trade, all merchant ships were already armed. |
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Some crews were treated as harshly as naval crews of the time, while others followed the comparatively relaxed rules of merchant ships. |
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Some crews were made up of professional merchant seamen, others of pirates, debtors, and convicts. |
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Entrepreneurs converted many different types of vessels into privateers, including obsolete warships and refitted merchant ships. |
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The nature of submarine warfare meant that attacks often came without warning, giving the crews of the merchant ships little hope of survival. |
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Instead, German naval strategy relied on commerce raiding using capital ships, armed merchant cruisers, submarines and aircraft. |
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From the summer of 1940 a small but steady stream of warships and armed merchant raiders set sail from Germany for the Atlantic. |
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On July 3, 1942, one of these trawlers, HMS Le Tigre proved her worth by picking up 31 survivors from the American merchant Alexander Macomb. |
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In the first six months of 1942, 21 were lost, less than one for every 40 merchant ships sunk. |
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In August and September, 60 were sunk, one for every 10 merchant ships, almost as many as in the previous two years. |
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During the Second World War nearly one third of the world's merchant shipping was British. |
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Hundreds of seamen worked as sailors on merchant ships, some of whom were African American. |
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From 1762, he began to champion unjustly persecuted people, the case of Huguenot merchant Jean Calas being the most celebrated. |
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Brock came of a merchant family, was an accountant and one of the founders of the Glasgow Savings Bank. |
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Music in Edinburgh prospered through the patronage of figures including the merchant Sir John Clerk of Penicuik. |
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Cosmas Indicopleustes, a merchant of Alexandria who lived in the 6th century, made a voyage to India and subsequently wrote works on cosmography. |
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In 1745, when John was 17, he was apprenticed to a Liverpool merchant for five years and then entered into partnership with his father. |
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Most of the merchant and business class left, resulting in the town's decay and ruin. |
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In 1802 local resident, merchant banker and politician, Sir William Paxton, bought his first property in the old town. |
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A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. |
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For example, merchant John Lok brought several captives to London in 1555 from Guinea. |
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World War I saw further growth in the size of London's Black communities with the arrival of merchant seamen and soldiers. |
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The Spanish invasion fleet outnumbered the English fleet's 22 galleons and 108 armed merchant ships. |
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This feat was considerably aided by the Imperial Japanese Navy's failure to provide adequate escort forces for the nation's merchant fleet. |
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His father, James Johnstone Hyde, was a linen merchant and Unionist councillor for Cromac. |
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Up until recent years it was a regular occurrence for merchant vessels to founder in Biscay storms. |
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In 2005 Italy maintained a civilian air fleet of about 389,000 units and a merchant fleet of 581 ships. |
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For the Dutch merchant marine the North Sea served more as a starting point for their oceanic voyages. |
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This coincided with the enormous growth of the Dutch merchant fleet, made possible by the cheap mass production of the fluyt sailing ship types. |
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The Dutch merchant elite began to use London as a new operational base and Dutch economic growth slowed. |
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Radio was in early use, with naval ships commonly equipped with radio telegraph, merchant ships less so. |
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This made it difficult to give warning before attacking a merchant ship or to rescue survivors. |
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On 25 April 1916, a decision was made by the German admiralty to halt indiscriminate attacks by submarine on merchant shipping. |
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After repairs it continued to approach, following behind merchant vessels, and reached Largo Bay on 25 May. |
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An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a merchant ship designed for the bulk transport of oil. |
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Olaf was three years old when they set sail on a merchant ship for Novgorod. |
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International law requires that every merchant ship be registered in a country, called its flag state. |
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The Bank of Amsterdam started operations in 1609, acting as a full service bank for Dutch merchant bankers and as a reserve bank. |
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The five Dutch admiralties hired any large armed merchant ship they could find. |
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All together, she burned 65 Union vessels of various types, most of them merchant ships. |
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It also sent vessels to protect merchant shipping and to hunt down and destroy the few Confederate raiders and privateers still operating. |
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Wrotham was responsible for fusing John's galleys, the ships of the Cinque Ports and pressed merchant vessels into a single operational fleet. |
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The Germans laid mines in shipping lanes to sink merchant and naval vessels serving Britain. |
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Naval convoys have been in use for centuries, with examples of merchant ships traveling under naval protection dating to the 12th century. |
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When merchant ships sailed independently, a privateer could cruise a shipping lane and capture ships as they passed. |
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By the end of the Napoleonic Wars the Royal Navy had in place a sophisticated convoy system to protect merchant ships. |
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Losses of ships travelling out of convoy however were so high that no merchant ship was allowed to sail unescorted. |
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The affluence of the merchant class allowed extensive patronage of the arts, and foremost among the patrons were the Medici. |
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Blake was one of thirteen siblings born to a merchant in Bridgwater, Somerset, where he attended Bridgwater Grammar School for Boys. |
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In 1348, the Black Death reached England via merchant vessels calling at Southampton. |
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On 17 March 1899 the East Goodwin lightship sent a signal on behalf of the merchant vessel Elbe which had run aground on Goodwin Sands. |
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The Crusaders opened trade routes which enabled the merchant republics of Genoa and Venice to become major economic powers. |
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Marco Polo, Italian merchant traveler who introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China. |
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Large parts of the Dutch merchant fleet and navy came to consist of Norwegians and Danes. |
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However, in the 18th century, due to their mastery of shipping and commerce, a wealthy and dispersed Greek merchant class arose. |
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The total tonnage of the country's merchant fleet is 202 million dwt, ranked 1st in the world. |
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The city became home to an extremely wealthy merchant class, who patronized renowned art and architecture along the city's lagoons. |
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The new literary field of the moral guide to business ethics was developed during the late Ming period, for the readership of the merchant class. |
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Even northern cities and states were also notable for their merchant republics, especially the Republic of Venice. |
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In the beginning of the American Revolution, American merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean were subject to attack by the Barbary pirates. |
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As Ibn Battuta was not a merchant and saw no benefit of going there he abandoned the travel to this land of darkness. |
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He left the capital in February accompanied by a local Malian merchant and journeyed overland by camel to Timbuktu. |
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Over a period of 25 years, he traveled as a merchant to numerous places in Asia. |
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The Old City with its traditional multistory buildings and merchant houses has lost ground to more modern developments. |
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This was done by the Transport Squadron organized with four ships of the line, one frigate, four transport ships and 10 merchant ships. |
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The operations in the Pungwe River were conducted by the gunboats of the Zambezi Flotilla, reinforced with chartered merchant vessels. |
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These included both warships and merchant vessels, from the Allies, the Axis and the Neutral countries. |
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An initial evacuation of civilians was made by the Portuguese merchant ship MS Ponta de Sagres, that was navigating in the region. |
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One of the main sources were accounts of the journeys of Italian merchant and traveller Nicolo de Conti. |
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At a remarkably young age, Cadamosto cast out as a merchant adventurer, sailing with Venetian galleys in the Mediterranean. |
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The United States worried that the success of the Creole slaves in gaining freedom would encourage more slave revolts on merchant ships. |
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The Portuguese seize around ten Arab merchant ships then in harbor, confiscating their cargoes, killing their crews, and burning their ships. |
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The merchant controlled the rates of pay and economically dominated the cloth industry. |
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However, a conflict soon arose between the Portuguese traders and the established Arab merchant guilds in the city. |
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These banned private foreign trade upon penalty of death for the merchant and exile for his family and neighbors. |
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Macau's merchant oligarchs continued to bribe their mandarin overseers and in this way the settlement persisted. |
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The merchant Christopher de Haro helped Faleiro and Magellan present their proposal before the Spanish royal counselors. |
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The term was also used by commercial fleets, when the distinction between a nation's navy and merchant fleet was not clear. |
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A merchant group developed and expanded dramatically as trade flourished during the seventeenth century. |
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An Early Classic Maya merchant quarter has been identified at the distant metropolis of Teotihuacan, in central Mexico. |
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Pinto was bought by a Celebes merchant and resold to the King of Kalapa who returned him to Sunda. |
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The volume of trade that the Roman merchant fleet carried was larger than any other until the industrial revolution. |
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Huyghen left for Spain during December 1576 to live with his older brother Willem, who was working as a merchant in Seville. |
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Companies enabled merchants to band together to undertake ventures requiring more capital than was available to any one merchant or family. |
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In 1598, an increasing number of fleets were sent out by competing merchant groups from around the Netherlands. |
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In addition, they used the merchant fabrics aboard the ship to make additional blankets and clothing. |
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A merchant historically was anyone who was involved in business as long as industry, commerce, and trade have existed. |
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The status of the merchant has varied during different periods of history and among different societies. |
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Merchants and merchant networks were known to operate in ancient Babylonia and Assyria, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Persia, Phoenecia and Rome. |
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During the European medieval period, a rapid expansion in trade and commerce, led to the rise of a wealthy and powerful merchant class. |
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However, the term 'merchant' is often used in a variety of specialised contexts such as in merchant banker, merchant navy or merchant services. |
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Relationships between merchant and consumer were minimal often playing into public concerns about the quality of produce. |
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Phoenician merchant traders imported and exported wood, textiles, glass and produce such as wine, oil, dried fruit and nuts. |
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Medieval England and Europe witnessed a rapid expansion in trade and the rise of a wealthy and powerful merchant class. |
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Rules established by merchant guilds were often incorporated into the charters granted to market towns. |
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By the 13th and 14th centuries, merchant guilds had sufficient resources to have erected guild halls in many major market towns. |
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Although merchant halls were known in antiquity, they fell into disuse and were not reinvented until Europe's Medieval period. |
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By the 13th and 14th centuries, merchant guilds had acquired sufficient resources to erect guild halls in many major market towns. |
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After the takeover of Kazan, the tsar looked to the powerful and affluent Stroganov merchant family to spearhead the eastward expansion. |
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He was from Kholmogory and the agent of Alexey Usov who was a member of the Gostinaya Sotnya, the highest merchant guild in Moscow. |
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Emperor Guangwu reinstated the Han dynasty with the support of landholding and merchant families at Luoyang, east of the former capital Xi'an. |
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He was also introduced to John Churchman, a distinguished London merchant who became Master of the Merchant Taylors Company. |
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Branches of wealthy Bermudian merchant families dominated trade in the area's ports. |
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Goods and services flowed freely during the medieval merchant law, thus generating more wealth for all involved. |
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Their skills and reputation would however still rely upon practical knowledge of merchant practice. |
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Merchant law declined as a cosmopolitan and international system of merchant justice towards the end of medieval times. |
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The new merchant law encompasses a huge body of international commercial law. |
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The medieval, the modern and cyberspace merchant laws face comparable issues of enforceability. |
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The Arab merchant Suleiman notes the enormity of the Pala army in his memoirs. |
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Samuel Touchet, a London merchant had the mill until 1755, but made no profit. |
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With the aid of this money, Crompton started a business as a bleacher and then as a cotton merchant and spinner, but without success. |
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A merchant would be away from home most of the year, carrying his takings in cash in his saddlebag. |
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Wrought iron that has been rolled multiple times is called merchant bar or merchant iron. |
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The Venetian merchant Marco Polo supposedly visited Hangzhou in the late 13th century. |
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In 1812, he married Eliza Perkins, daughter of merchant king Colonel Thomas Perkins. |
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In July 1796, he returned to Boston and set up as a merchant on Long Wharf. |
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In 1802, when his father died, Lowell used his inheritance to invest, primarily, in 8 merchant ships. |
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To man the blockade, Britain impressed American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy. |
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The American merchant marine had come close to doubling between 1802 and 1810, making it by far the largest neutral fleet. |
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The majority of the 1,407 captured American merchant ships were taken by the Royal Navy. |
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The blockade of American ports later tightened to the extent that most American merchant ships and naval vessels were confined to port. |
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These initially were merchant guilds, but developed into separate trade guilds for each skill. |
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The cloth merchant purchased the wool and provided it to the weaver, who sold his produce back to the merchant. |
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Arthur Clough was born in Liverpool to James Butler Clough, a cotton merchant of Welsh descent, and Anne Perfect, from Pontefract in Yorkshire. |
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Danish merchant ships also traded around Europe and the North Atlantic, venturing to new Danish colonies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic. |
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Joseph Armitage Wade, a Hull timber merchant and Hornsea resident was a key promoter of the line. |
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The merchant proceeded on his way marvelling in his heart at the uncharitableness and innate wickedness of unregenerated human nature. |
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The frigate was called into action after 12 merchant seamen abandoned ship. |
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The large group of ROK personnel were divided and led by merchant marine officers to various stations throughout the ship. |
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In the past it was the individual bed-hopper or sleaze merchant caught banking bungs who were hung out to dry. |
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He won the George Medal for his work as a frogman specialising in removing German limpet mines from merchant ships. |
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This product allows the merchant to affix a bit map of a customer's signature to a document. |
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I have also painted merchant ships for retired sea dogs and Royal Navy warships for a local family who have two sons in the Royal Navy. |
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Once a client transfers from a bank or typical asset-based lender to a merchant bank, it's common that their business gains significant momentum. |
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A large financial stake by the merchant bank is one of the key attractions to their investors, and also to the sellers of the properties. |
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By next week, we will be finalising the name of the merchant banker for a possible stake sale. |
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So, come the euro day a bunch of merchant bankers sit down to negotiate the entry of Cyprus into the eurozone. |
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The box was given by Ramsay at Christmas 1826 to Robert Cairns, a Quebec City merchant tailor. |
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The almshouses were created in 1676 by Sir William Turner, a merchant tailor, to provide supported housing for retired people. |
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The movement was started by four men, a lawyer, a coal merchant, a mining engineer and a merchant tailor, all meeting in Chicago. |
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With an extensive merchant base and a robust and easy-to-use solution, Mall Networks is simply the best online shopping mall platform available. |
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Silas Deane is a Connecticut merchant and congressional delegate. |
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Alternative financing such as merchant cash advance has stepped in to address these underserved businesses. |
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To make payment fast and secure, it uses an online merchant card service as well as Paypal and Money Broker. |
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The result of the replacement of lex mercatoria codes with national governed codes was the loss of autonomy of merchant tribunals to state courts. |
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In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks. |
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Just then, a sailor, who had crossed the channel, and was making rapid headway, by rowing cross-handed, emerged from behind a merchant vessel which was moored at the wharf. |
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The agreement with Bridgeview signals a new focus on providing processing services to large principal merchant banks as well as smaller agent banks. |
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In 1581 the Stroganov merchant family, interested in the fur trade, hired a Cossack leader, Yermak Timofeyevich, to lead an expedition into western Siberia. |
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Thus the Baltic Sea has long been crossed by much merchant shipping. |
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Naval ships will fly the white ensign, merchant and private boats can fly the red ensign, others with special permission such as naval yacht clubs can fly the blue ensign. |
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Consequently, merchant marine officers and seamen, both veterans and beginners, are hired for voyages through union hiring halls or directly by shipping companies. |
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The sack of the southern port Guangzhou in 879 was followed by the massacre of most of its inhabitants, along with the large foreign merchant enclaves. |
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From 1609 to 1616, England lost 466 merchant ships to Barbary pirates. |
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Another great source of strength was its industrious merchant community. |
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In the first sense it is used for the bourgeoisie, the urban merchant and professional class that stood between the aristocracy and the proletariat in the Marxist model. |
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While the upper classes had been struggling with the Court for centuries, and regarded it as a necessary evil, the growing middle and merchant classes were more demanding. |
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His mother was a teacher and his father a river pilot and merchant seaman. |
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Another immigration from Persia occurred around 825 under the leadership of Persian merchant Marwan Sabriso, with two Bishops, Mar Sapro and Mar Prodh. |
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