Drexler, who is known as the "the merchant prince," has been held responsible for transforming Ann Taylor and Gap.
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Mr. Drexler, a legendary retail industry figure known as the Merchant Prince, remained as chairman until this past January, when he stepped down.
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It placed its finest artworks in the auctioneer's hands, at the mercy of the highest bidder, which generally means some anonymous merchant prince on the telephone.
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He joined J. Crew in 2003 and quickly lived up to his nickname, the Merchant Prince, as crisp tailored shirts and bright, springy ballet flats flew out the door.
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With the arrival of Mr. Drexler — who soon became known as the "merchant prince" — came the pocket tees, the khakis and the sweaters that would signal an end to the brand's youth.
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So far, she's marshaled a barbarian horse-lord, a merchant prince, a ruggedly handsome noble-in-exile, an army of eunuchs, and three dragons to her banner, so who are we to protest?
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Since season 1, she's been power-hungry, with a penchant for burning people alive, among the other painful punishments she's doled out to victims, like the godswife Mirri Maz Duur and the merchant prince Xaro Xhoan Daxos.
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Called the "Merchant Prince" by the media, his Midas touch has been the subject of much intrigue; his in-office quirks, hands-on leadership style, and insistent intimacy with all aspects of a brand's products, people, and systems have made him an iconoclast in the retail system (what other CEO asks shoppers to email them personally with complaints?).
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Merchant Prince is video game released in 1994, and is the first game of the Merchant Prince video game series.
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The game was developed by Holistic Design, creator of the Merchant Prince series.
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He also wrote a comprehensive, two-volume biography of merchant-prince John Wanamaker.
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Shofner, Jerrell H. Daniel Ladd: Merchant Prince of Frontier Florida. University of Presses of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 1978, 180 pages.
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James "Merchant Prince" Ramsey (April 4, 1864 – December 23, 1939) was a provincial politician and business man from Alberta, Canada.
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Maynard was Seattle's first doctor, merchant prince, second lawyer, Sub-Indian Agent, Justice of the Peace, and architect of the Point Elliott Treaty of 1855.
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Merchant Prince II is a 2001 turn-based strategy game of economic, political, and military conquest. The game is developed by Holistic and published by Take-Two Interactive.
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A variant of the painting with a larger church tower and an additional building is used as the Venetian screen in the 2001 video game Merchant Prince II.
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Brief Moment received positive reviews. It has been described as 'Capraesque'.Dick, Bernard F. The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row: Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures. Lexington, Ky: Univ.
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' His movie roles included Louie in Four Friends (1981), the Merchant Prince in A Perfect Murder (1998), and Governor Willis in Morning Glory (2010). Birney is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University.
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Napoleon Hill (1830–1909) was an American businessman of Memphis, Tennessee, tagged as "the merchant prince of Memphis" by his contemporaries.Political Horoscope Memphis Daily Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) · 19 Mar 1888, Mon · Page 4.
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Rise of a Merchant Prince is a fantasy novel by American writer Raymond E. Feist. It is the second book of The Serpentwar Saga, preceded by Shadow of a Dark Queen and followed by Rage of a Demon King.
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Coveney was born into one of Cork's prosperous "merchant prince" families in 1935. He was educated at Christian Brothers College, Cork, Clongowes Wood College and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. He worked as a chartered quantity surveyor before entering politics.
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He also wrote the screenplay and lyrics. The film saw Pankaj Mullick's debut as a Hindi music director. The dialogues were by Wajahat Mirza. The story revolves around the rivalry and revenge between the Jewish merchant Prince Ezra and the Roman priest Brutus.
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Shadow of a Dark Queen is a fantasy novel by American writer Raymond E. Feist. It is the first book in The Serpentwar Saga and was first published in June 1994. It was followed by Rise of a Merchant Prince which was published in 1995.
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Translation: "1227 A.D. Licensed by Lewelinum (sic). - The high Norwallic merchant prince Simon le Petit has left to come to England and has brought with him wines and merchandise. He will stay until the feast of St. Michael next year." The family seat was Rackheath Hall, Rackheath, Norfolk.
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Higgins became well known for his aggressive, campaigning journalism. His first essay was a satire on dishonest business practices, entitled "Jacob Omnium, the Merchant Prince". It was published in New Monthly Magazine in 1845. Though the name was that of the villain, he adopted it as his main pen-name.
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He was a very successful merchant who was referred to as the "merchant prince". He was engaged in the fishing business and foreign trade, moving to Newburyport, Massachusetts and then to Boston, where he had his offices at 25 and then 40 Long Wharf and owned Sargent's Wharf, Boston, MA.
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Khwaja Alimullah was the first Nawab of Dhaka. He was the founder of the Dhaka Nawab family. He was the nephew and heir of the merchant prince Khawaja Hafizullah Kashmiri, son of Khwaja Ahsanullah, and father of Khwaja Abdul Ghani, the first Nawab of Dhaka to be recognized by the British Raj.
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The Chief Brahmin Priest/merchant prince who brought the image was called Rama Chandra, (a name which alludes to Lord Rama, an incarnation of Vishnu). The sandalwood image was moved soon after to other shrines inland. Some scholars regard the story of a sandalwood image washing ashore to be mythical.The Ceylon historical journal, Volume 17. (1970). p.
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The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 5 by Erwin Fahlbusch. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing – 2008. p. 285. .Manimekalai, by Merchant Prince Shattan, Gatha 27 Early Tamil texts do make a number of references to social stratification, as expressed by use of the word kudi ("group") to denote "caste". A striking feature of the social life of the early historic period (c.
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Campbell & Cleveland represented A.T. Stewart, "The Merchant Prince," and Hilton became Stewart's private counsel in 1850. In the 1850s Hilton married Ellen Banker, a cousin of Mrs. Stewart and the sister of James H. Banker, President of the Bank of New York. He was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1858 to 1863, and also served as Parks Commissioner for a time.
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The best-known of his novels and sketches are: Detmold (1879); The House of a Merchant Prince (1882); Choy Susan and Other Stories (1884); Fish and Men in the Maine Islands (1885); The Golden Justice (1887); The Brownstone Boy and Other Queer People (1888); A House Hunter in Europe (1893); Writing to Rosina (1894). Old Mexico and Her Lost Provinces (1883) is a book of travel.
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Akintola Williams was born in 1919. His grandfather, Z.A. Williams, was a merchant prince from Abeokuta and his father Thomas Ekundayo Williams was a clerk in the colonial service who set up a legal practice in Lagos after training in London, England. He was the older brother of Frederick Rotimi Williams, who later became a distinguished lawyer, and the late Rev. James Kehinde Williams, a Christian minister.
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C. R. Mabley Christopher Richards Mabley (1836–1885) was the founder of a chain of department stores in the USA. He was known as "The Merchant Prince". Mabley was born on Feb 22, 1836 in St. Minver, Cornwall, England to William and Mary née Richards Mably. His first wife, Catherine, bore him at least 8 children of whom only two or three girls survived to adulthood.
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His teeth were bound with gold wire, with the front ones being noted as being particularly fine. Unlike his predecessor Umar, Uthman was not a skilled orator, having grown tongue-tied during his first address as caliph. He remained somewhat apart from the other close Sahaba, having been an elegant, educated and cultured merchant-prince standing out among his poorer compatriots. This was a trait which had been acknowledged by Muhammad.
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The gallery has since closed, but the volume has become a part of the rare books collection of the Milwaukee Central Library. The Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame was initiated in 1993, and Plankinton was one of three new inductees added in 1995. The accompanying profile describes Plankinton as a philanthropist and "A Merchant Prince and Princely Merchant", a title also used in his Milwaukee Sentinel obituary.
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Wyoming Renegades is a 1954 Western film directed by Fred F. Sears and starring Phil Carey, Gene Evans and Martha Hyer. The film features Butch Cassidy as the leader of the Hole in the Wall Gang. The film was shot from June 21 to June 30, 1954 at the Iverson Movie Ranch.p.159 Dick, Bernard F The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row: Harry Cohn of Columbia PicturesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1993p.
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In 1936 Lykiardopulo then established Drake Shipping Co. in London with the purchase of a second hand tramp steamer and bought others during and after the war. By 1954, it operated four ships named the Merchant Prince (1939, freight cargo ship), Merchant Duke (1943, freight cargo ship), Merchant Knight (1952, tanker), and Merchant Baron (1953, tanker). These were either transferred to Greek registry or sold. By the 1960s Drake Shipping Co had become defunct.
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He independently amassed his own fortune, and would later evolve into a skilled military leader commanding more senior troops. "Kenadid" was not his surname, but rather a title given to him by his rivals. As per custom among the period's prominent urban traders, to ensure commercial success in the interior, Kenadid married a local woman. While traveling to the coast in his capacity as a merchant prince, he would thereafter entrust his business affairs to his second wife, Khadija.
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Perhaps the first person to view Fifth Avenue as a major retail and fashion center, Simon initiated "Buyers Week" and "Market Week," thus revolutionizing how manufacturers and retailers presented and sold new fashions and simultaneously generating millions of dollars in business for the surrounding neighborhood. By 1922, Simon was known amongst his contemporaries as a "merchant prince," and was one of the leading figures in setting the fashion trends of the day.The Clothier and Furnisher Vol. 101, Oct. 1922.
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Pachaiyappa's College, Chennai is the offspring of a superlative act of private philanthropy of its progenitor, Pachaiyappa Mudaliar, who had made himself a master financier and merchant prince when he was just 22 years old. Inspired and motivated by the preciousness and large-heartedness of the benevolent founder. This college had its genesis in the famous Will of Pachaiyappa Mudaliar. The college was established as Pachaiyappa's Central Institution at Popham's Broadway on 1 January 1842, from money given in Pachaiyappa Mudaliar's will.
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Millerna Aston, the third princess of the kingdom of Asturia who is in love with Allen Schezar, though she is betrothed to the merchant prince Dryden Fassa. Millerna's ambition was once to become a doctor, but was forced to give up her medical studies by her second sister, Eries. Her eldest sister, Marlene, is deceased, and was the wife of Duke Freid and the mother of Allen's son, Chid. Millerna later runs away from Asturia to join Van's troupe and fulfill her dreams.
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Shimerman has co-written a series of books in which he provides a science fictional basis for the life of Dr. John Dee. The first novel in the series, The Merchant Prince, was co- written with Irish author Michael Scott, known for his Nicholas Flamel series. Published in 2000, it features the historical figure John Dee being placed in suspended animation in 1575 by an alien race known as the Roc and awakening in 2099. The cover features Shimerman in Elizabethan garb.
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Jenyns began her stage career in Leah, the Forsaken at the Theatre Royal in Hobart in January 1879. Her performance was reviewed as "childlike and natural as little Leah, and gave promise of future success in parts of this description". Next, in After Dark, she "surprised everyone by her natural rendering of Johnny Williams, a 'sidewalk merchant prince'". At age 18 her Ophelia was described in The Bulletin as "a performance full of promise... We shall watch this young lady's career with interest".
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In 1860 Perine was in partnership again, this time as Perine and Hunter. Anna M. Gayle Fry, writing in her book Memories of Old Cahaba, describes E. M. Perine as "a merchant prince of ante-bellum days, a Northern gentleman of the old school who was universally beloved by all who knew him." Following the Civil War, Perine's business at Cahaba was ruined, as his daughter Mary E. Perine Tucker put it, having "lost all". Mary E. Perine Tucker; Ida Raymond, editor; SOUTHLAND WRITERS.
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He donated the proceeds of the book to Irish famine relief. His most substantial work was a Memoir of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers (1849), enriched with original documents, and written with eloquent partiality for the subject. This was followed in 1850 by Reginald Hastings, a novel, the scenes of which were laid in the same period of civil war, and, in 1851, by another historical novel, Darien, or The Merchant Prince. He was also for a time the editor of The Gentleman's Magazine.
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Set right after Rise of a Merchant Prince, the story opens with Rupert Avery and Erik Von Darkmoor returning from their second voyage in the southern continent Novindus. Erik goes off to undertake more training for recruits, and returns to Kitty, who form a relationship. Word reaches that the entire continent of Novindus has fallen, despite their previous efforts to sabotage and delay the movement of the Emerald Queen's army. Roo similarly returns to his relationship with Sylvia, the beautiful daughter of Jacob Esterbrook.
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The Elizabeth Plankinton House was a mansion in Milwaukee built in 1886 as a wedding gift to Elizabeth from her father, businessman John Plankinton, known as "A Merchant Prince and Princely Merchant" for his philanthropy. The house was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style. It was one of many such mansions owned by the wealthy in the west part of Milwaukee in the late 19th century. It was in the residential area on Grand Avenue (later Wisconsin Avenue) in the downtown district of the city.
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He served a year as the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1732. In 1718 he married Mary Page, the daughter of Sir Gregory Page, 1st Baronet, who was a "merchant prince" with great wealth from the British East India Company. Both Turner and his father-in-law invested in the South Sea Company, but when the company's stock had risen in price in the South Sea Bubble, they sold their shareholdings at a profit before the price crashed in 1720. Both men then invested their increased wealth in land.
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Seven Islands manages approximately 1 million acres (4,000 km²) of forest in the North Maine Woods, in northern and western Maine, for dozens of members of the Pingree family, descendants of wealthy Salem, Massachusetts shipping magnate David Pingree (nicknamed the "Merchant Prince of Salem"). He began to acquire the Maine lands more than 150 years ago. In 1997, the family's Seven Islands Land Company is believed to be the fourth largest private landowner in the United States, according to an analysis by Worth magazine. Worth magazine: "100 landlords".
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Memphis emerged from the Civil War undamaged from the fighting, and Tennessee was on July 24, 1866 the first southern state to be re-admitted to the Union. The Memphis Cotton Exchange was founded in 1873 by a group of cotton traders led by Napoleon Hill. Hill became immensely wealthy with interests in wholesale groceries, railroads, steel and banking, as well as cotton, and was known to his contemporaries as "the merchant prince of Memphis."Political Horoscope Memphis Daily Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) · 19 Mar 1888, Mon · Page 4.
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The map the player receives from uncle Niccolo resembles those of the period: it is highly accurate close to Venice but grows much less so the further one goes. The mechanic has been praised by reviewers: "Though its gameplay was nowhere near as sophisticated as that of its near contemporary Civilization, Merchant Prince/Machiavelli did a better job of capturing what exploring is really like. Very rarely in the human experience are people pushing into an entirely blank unknown space. There are always rumors, always guesses, always some advice either from locals or past chronicles.".
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This created excitement for many Black Americans and soon spread to many important figures and leaders in the Black community. Granville won over many influential people such as Nicholas Biddle, president of the Second Bank of the United States, merchant prince Stephen Girard, and Merchant David Correy (merchant). Also lending their support to Granville were the Marquis de Lafayette and Scottish reformer Frances Wright.(letter) Jonathas Granville to Jean-Pierre Boyer, June 12, 1824, in With impeccable manners and an ability to keep his feelings to himself, Granville was able to work with and convince others.
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JH Ashdown Hardware Company Ltd Building (167 Bannatyne) James Henry Ashdown (31 March 1844 – 5 April 1924), the "Merchant Prince of Winnipeg", arrived in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1868 and at that time began his business as a tinsmith. In 1870 he purchased two lots on the corner of Main Street and Bannatyne Avenue, the location of the Ashdown retail store for over one hundred years. Ashdown's successful real estate speculation, combined with his business acumen, made him a millionaire by 1910. By 1875, business had expanded into both retail and wholesale operations until in 1881 his worth was over $150,000.
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During the Civil War, Cromwell quartered a large force in the grounds of the stately Netherwitton Hall for one night, and later awarded a sum of £95-5s-6d. as compensation for the damage done by his troops. After Culloden in 1746 Lord Lovat, a Jacobite leader, for a long while lay concealed in a "Priest's Hole" in an upper room of the Hall. Roger Thornton, a great merchant-prince of Newcastle at the beginning of the 15th century, was a native of Netherwitton and built a castle by the river, but no trace of it remains.
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Park's early work was in marble, later changing to the medium of bronze for natural sculptures, in line with the American trend for late nineteenth century sculptures. During his time in Florence, Park was commissioned to prepare a marble bust of John Plankinton, an astute businessman who founded the meat industry in Wisconsin and was respected as "Milwaukee's foremost citizen". Plankinton was known for religious convictions, his success from a modest upbringing, and for his regular philanthropic public deeds; he became known as "A Merchant Prince and Princely Merchant". Plankinton's daughter, Elizabeth, travelled to Europe in 1879, and met Park in Florence.
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King Jaja of Opobo (full name: Jubo Jubogha; 1821–1891) was a merchant prince and the founder of Opobo city-state in an area that is now the Rivers state of Nigeria. Born in Umuduruoha Amaigbo in Igboland, he was taken at about the age of twelve as a slave in Bonny by Obua Ajukwu of Oguta, who had come to Bonny to buy slaves. Jumo Jumofe later took the name "Jaja". Jaja earned his way out of slavery; he was enculturated according to Ijaw (Ibani) rituals and rose to head the Anna Pepple House merchant faction of Bonny Island.
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From 1694 to 1700, the Company was a major participant in the Komenda Wars in the port city Komenda in the Eguafo Kingdom in modern-day Ghana. The Company allied with a merchant prince named John Cabess and various neighbouring African kingdoms to depose the king of Eguafo and establish a permanent fort and factory in Komenda. The English took two French forts and lost them again, after which the French destroyed Fort James. The place appears to have been soon regained and in the War of Spanish Succession to have been twice retaken by the French.
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Nicol, retired from the Colonial Secretaryship in 1868 possibly due to the fact he became permanently disabled. The Colonial Treasury increased his pension to 396 pounds for serving in the harsh climate of Sierra Leone which was at that time known as the 'White Man's Grave'. Possibly because he was an 'octoroon' Nicol was given special consideration in regard to pension as the Treasury evidently thought him to be an Englishman and did not realize that Sierra Leone had been his birthplace. Nicol sold his valuable Freetown property to Charles Heddle, a mixed race Senegalese 'merchant prince' who had amassed a fortune in the groundnut trade.
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Carr was born at Conisbrough, Yorkshire, a son of William Carr, who had a small farm at Styrrup from Doncaster, and was educated at Tickhill in that county, and worked on his father's farm. He emigrated to Australia in 1862 on the Merchant Prince, which brought him to Melbourne, and thence to Adelaide on the Admella, arriving on 17 July 1859 (a month later the Admella was wrecked with tragic consequences). He purchased at Dashwood's Gully, where he grew wheat and ran dairy cattle for 20 years, then sold up to live at Blackwood. Seventeen years later he took up on the Nullarbor Plain with Capt.
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Chepstow House (left); the Peveril of the Peak public house (right) Sam Mendel (1811–1884), the "Merchant Prince", was one of the leading merchants in Manchester during its rise to industrial prominence. He was born in Liverpool, but the family soon relocated to Manchester where his father, Emmanuel, established a rope, twine, and pitch-paper business and then later a hotel, the Manchester and Liverpool (subsequently known as Mendel's Hotel). Samuel first worked in a warehouse on Bow Street belonging to Mr. B. Liebert, and during this time he also travelled extensively. Building on his experience he began his own business and rapidly became one of Manchester's leading textile merchants.
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Charles Tyng (1801-1879). Charles Tyng (August 24, 1801 - June 20, 1879) was a New England sea captain and merchant, notable for a memoir written near the end of his life. Although Tyng was born, the fifth of eight children, to a prosperous upper-middle class family, his mother died when he was seven, and Tyng thereafter seemed unable to apply himself to his studies. Sent to sea at age thirteen, Tyng matured quickly and, by his early twenties—beginning within the empire of Boston merchant prince Thomas Handasyd Perkins—Tyng was captaining his own ships, in the process encountering sharks, pirates, mutinies, shipwrecks, horrific storms, and cholera.
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Mendel occupied the house from 1858. Born in Liverpool of Jewish origin he was the so-called "Merchant Prince" of Manchester's textile industry, who made a fortune by providing the fastest export routes round the Cape of Good Hope to India and Australia. At the height of his commercial success he converted from Judaism to High Church Anglicanism, and became a significant local figure as trustee of St Clement's Church, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, despite Manley Hall being outside the Parish boundary.1845 Tithe Map When the Suez Canal opened in 1869 he lost his commercial advantage and in 1875 was forced to sell Manley Hall and its contents.
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Toney Afong Julia and Afong had sixteen children. The following list of descendants are compiled from the family in Dye's Merchant Prince of the Sandalwood Mountains: Their sixteen children included: #Emmeline Agatha Marie Kailimoku Afong (1858–1946), married firstly Henry Giles and had one daughter; and married secondly John Alfred Magoon and had seven children. #Antone "Toney" Abram Kekapala Keawemauhili Afong / Chun Chik-yu (1859–1936), married Julien Chang and had three children, Chun Wing-Sen, Irene Chun Wing-Luen, and Chun Wing-Keu. He served as governor of Guangdong from 1922 to 1923. #Nancy Eldorah Luhana Frederica Afong (1861–1940), married Francis Blately McStocker and had three children.
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The Nawabs of Dhaka are known to have engaged them to transact their personal businesses openly or clandestinely as well as the European maritime companies, who used them as local representatives and their vakils (spokesperson or pleaders) to the royal courts. Khwaja Hafizullah, a merchant prince, laid the foundations for the Dhaka Nawab Family by accumulating wealth by doing business with Greek and Armenian merchants. This trend was followed by his nephew and the first Nawab of the family Khwaja Alimullah.M Ali Akbar, Dhaka Nawab Estate, Banglapedia, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh Initially they lived in the neighborhoods of Moulvibazar and Nolgola, before moving to Armanitola.
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He was closely associated with Andrew Allan and Alexander Walker Ogilvie in forming the Citizens' Gas Company which in the early 1880s attempted unsuccessfully to challenge the domination of the Montreal Gas Company. In 1881, he journeyed to British Columbia with Sir Charles Tupper, who described Robertson as a "merchant prince," in order to report on the feasibility of the Canadian Pacific Railway building a line between Victoria and Nanaimo. Although Robertson recommended such a move, the CPR did not undertake the construction. Andrew also became active in politics and a bi-product of his Tory affiliations was an appointment to the Montreal Harbour Commission by Sir John A. Macdonald in 1878.
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Sargent's paternal ancestor, William, came to America from Gloucester, England, before 1678. Among his first cousins was Dudley Saltonstall, a notorious Revolutionary War naval commander. Through his brother Winthrop, he was uncle to Winthrop Sargent (1753–1820), a major in the Continental Army who was appointed the first Governor of the Mississippi Territory by president John Adams, and Judith Sargent Murray, an early American advocate for women's rights, essayist, playwright, poet, and letter writer. Through his brother Daniel, he was an uncle to Lucius Manlius Sargent, the author, antiquarian, and temperance advocate, Henry Sargent, the artist who was the father of Henry Winthrop Sargent, the prominent horticulturist, and merchant prince Daniel Sargent of Boston.
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Following his victory at 1973 general election, Cosgrave was determined not to alienate certain wings of his party in choosing his cabinet. The cabinet was described as being the "Government of all talents", including such luminaries as future Taoiseach and writer Garret FitzGerald, former United Nations diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien, television presenter and veterinary professor Justin Keating and others. Cosgrave balanced these with hardline Christian Democrats such as Richard Burke, a former teacher, Cork merchant prince Peter Barry and west Dublin farmer Mark Clinton. It has been argued that Cosgrave fell into the category of being a "chairman" rather than a "chief" as far as the day-to-day running of his Government was concerned.
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It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District in 1975. Among the many events identified within this Historic District are a Corps of Discovery campsite, May 28, 1805; Fort Chardon Trading Post, 1844-1845; Isaac Stevens 1855 Lame Bull Treaty; Camp Cooke (first military post in Montana), 1866-1870; PN Cable Ferry, 1880-1908. On the south side of the river at Judith Landing, the entire river bottom was once part of a large, open-range cattle spread founded by T.C. Power, merchant prince of Fort Benton, and John Norris, who managed the ranch for the company. Today, the recreation area provides a campground and is a common take-out point for many boaters along the Missouri River.
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The idea for the series as a whole began in May 1997. Initially, the series had Dr. Dee in the leading role, and was going to be called The Secrets of John Dee, a historical character who Scott knew well, having featured him in three of his other titles: Image, Reflection, and The Merchant Prince. He wanted to bring Dr. Dee into the 21st Century and introduce him to a young audience that may not have heard of the historical doctor before, but he decided that Dr. Dee was too sinister and had dubious motivation. Inspiration struck one night in 2000, when Scott took a wrong turn whilst wandering around Paris and happened upon Nicholas Flamel's house in the Rue du Montmorency.
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Through his brother Winthrop, he was uncle to Winthrop Sargent (1753–1820), a major in the Continental Army who was appointed the first Governor of the Mississippi Territory by president John Adams, and Judith Sargent Murray, an early American advocate for women's rights, essayist, playwright, poet, and letter writer. Through his brother Daniel, he was an uncle to Lucius Manlius Sargent, the author, antiquarian, and temperance advocate, Henry Sargent, the artist who was the father of Henry Winthrop Sargent, the prominent horticulturist, and merchant prince Daniel Sargent of Boston, paid the elderly Colonel Sargent's respects to his former comrade-in-arms Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette during the latter's visit to the United States in 1824. The painter John Singer Sargent was descended from the first Winthrop Sargent's youngest son Fitzwilliam.
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Kevin Rice reviewed the PC version of the game for Next Generation, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "It's virtually the same game it was eight years ago, designed to run under Windows instead of DOS, but in the end it's still an entertaining, unique turn-based strategy." Merchant Prince II received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. So little was added to gameplay that it was properly a rerelease rather than a sequel, and the changes to the graphics were considered uglier, with a zoomed-in and less user-friendly interface. ("End turn", for instance, was represented by an unlabeled wine glass.) It was largely panned by critics and even the positive review by IGN called it a "cheap reissue" and pardoned it only because of the difficulty of finding the original DOS games.
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The celebrated explorer Richard Francis Burton called him "as shrewd, liberal and enlightened a prince as Arabia has ever produced," and an Italian physician who served him for a time said: "His constant love of justice, and distinguished clemency, the effects of which are felt, not only by his own subjects, but even by his domestic slaves." In 1832, he made the island of Zanzibar his second capital and set about establishing what is present-day Stone Town. A merchant prince and capable warrior, he spent much of his time at sea depending on mercantile and maritime resources for his power in both Oman and Zanzibar. Recognizing the suitability of Zanzibar climate and soil, he initiated large scale cultivation of cloves (an essential meat preservative in Europe prior to the advent of refrigeration) and soon after sought slaves as cheap labor to plant and harvest the biennial crop.
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Van Upp not only fashioned a successful screenplay from the discarded drafts, but most importantly, gained the confidence of Rita Hayworth, becoming a friend and a mediator between her and the studio - even supervising Hayworth's costumes and rewriting her own work to suit Hayworth's new persona. Seeing the impressive results, Cohn made Van Upp an associate producer and later Executive Producer at the studio. Not only did Cohn recognize the importance of appealing to the large female audiences, while men were away during World War II, but Van Upp's broad experience in the film industry at all levels made her a rarity: as opposed to most screenwriters who resented studio interference with their work,Dick, Bernard F. The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row: Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures University Press of Kentucky (1993) p.67 she understood and welcomed diversity of opinion and pressure from the studio to complete a successful film.
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Computer Gaming World called it "an excellent game of strategy and intrigue". Computer Game Review gave it a platinum triad award (high marks from three reviewers) before naming it the magazine's 1994 strategy game of the year. The Swedish magazine High Score scored it as 100%, calling it "a completely brilliant strategy game" (').. The German magazine Power Play gave the game a 79%, calling it "a true gem in the genre of economic games" (') and principally faulting its simplistic graphics.. On the other hand, PC Player gave it a rating of 56, finding it essentially similar to The Patrician and Hanse,. and Game Bytes considered it "almost great", given that the AIs—while otherwise competent—were unable to negotiate and interact at the level of Master of Orion, released the same year.. Merchant Prince was a runner-up for Computer Gaming Worlds "Strategy Game of the Year" award, which ultimately went to Master of Orion.
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On April 2, 1861, the British merchant Prince of Wales sailed from Glasgow, Scotland, to the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a load of carbon, ceramics, fabrics, oil and wine. Between June 5 and 8, 1861, the ship ran aground on the coast of the then province of Rio Grande do Sul, in a desert region of dangerous beaches at the height of the Albardão Lighthouse, 87 kilometers from the Arroio Chuí bar. On the afternoon of June 12, the Justice of the Peace of Albardão district, Bento Venâncio Soares informed the British consul in Rio Grande, Henry Prendergast Vereker, that several bodies had been found on the coast, victims of a shipwreck. Suspecting that it was a British ship, Vereker initiated inquiries and on June 14 he was able to identify the boat by a paper found in one of the victims, so that on the morning of June 16 he was present at the scene of the wreck, where they were already 10 armed men from the next Tahim police sub-delegation in charge of Faustino José da Silveira, brother-in-law of Bento Soares.
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Varric is a dwarf from House Tethras, a dwarven noble house which was exiled in disgrace to the surface world from their subterranean homeland, the kingdom of Orzammar, generations prior to the events of Dragon Age II. He is depicted as wielding considerable de facto political power by virtue of economic assets derived from his family's involvement in trade and commerce. He is considered a merchant prince among the surface dwarves of Thedas, the setting in which the Dragon Age franchise take place, and has a reputation for being the best dressed man in Kirkwall's Lowtown. Varric claims he runs a "spy network" with contacts to deal with various troubles that come along with being in a family that is part of the Dwarven Merchants Guild, although he has little interest in their agenda and schemes; he maintains an outward facade as the idle younger scion of his family; while his older brother is in charge of the family business, he usually spends his time in taverns spinning wild stories to the local gamblers and thieves while people buy him drinks. On occasion, his storytelling act is also a cover of him to rob his audience blind.
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