But she did so also to show she was an ordinary woman, suffering and labouring against the elements like any farmer's or merchant's wife.
The 16-digit account number stored in your card's magnetic stripe zooms across a leased phone line to the merchant's bank, zips under the Pacific to Visa's data center outside Tokyo and rides the Visa network to the data center of your issuing bank in Delaware.
In 1997, UNESCO declared the entire town a World Heritage Site, and in 2009, the first boutique hotel, Jing's Residence, opened, mixing ancient and modern styles within a former silk merchant's mansion.
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NBC's adaptation is successful because it takes the central message from the BBC creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's work, the well-used notion that life is really about the unexpected significance we find in everyday human interactions, and absorbs it into the modern American sitcom.
It isn't clear if the latest guidance would apply to a merchant's online scrip.
China Merchant's container throughput increased over 20% in the first four months of the year.
The museum is situated in a former wool merchant's Grade II-listed mansion which dates back to the 17th century.
That means less money going into the small merchant's cash register.
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Zaad, a mobile-money service, allows users to pay for goods by texting small amounts of money to a merchant's account, and is proving popular in Mogadishu.
The defendant merchant(s) should also be required to contact each person who has received the defamatory credit information concerning you and inform them of the falsity of the information.
His talent to amuse had been noticed in Lichfield, and when he arrived in London his determination to act was driven only partly by the failure of the wine merchant's business he ran.
Card issuers now "have the ability to be on a merchant's site and to allow the use of points on the merchants site, " says Josh Berwitz, vice president of business development at American Express.
For stunning views out over both fort and sea, return to complete a full round of the Galle Fort walls at dusk, then replenish with tasty fusion cuisine at the Galle Fort Hotel, once a gem of a merchant's mansion.
In the case of Visa and MasterCard (nyse: MA - news - people ), when a credit card is swiped, the transaction gets relayed--via an intermediary--to the credit card company, which then sluices the funds to the merchant's bank account.
Bowie appeared in series two of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's programme Extras in 2006 where a random encounter with Bowie in a pub ends with Bowie at a piano singing a song - Chubby Little Loser - which ridicules Gervais' character Andy.
Most notable among them is the inclusion of Guilds -- a range of building types used to train units in sciences such as War (accumulate experience points for battle), the Church (construct priests and monks with special powers), the Merchant's Guild (needed for trading with others) and Magetowers, (used to create wizards and learn new spells).
"When (a futures commission merchant's) financial risk controls are so lacking that they do virtually nothing to prevent an unchecked customer from taking grossly excessive trading risks as happened here, a harmful domino effect of financially dangerous consequences can follow, affecting not only the FCM but also potentially other customers and the market at large, " said David Meister, the CFTC's enforcement director.
The judge dismissed charges that El Paso's merchant arm made illegal profits trading California gas.
First, Iran's merchant class, who are firm supporters of the clerical establishment, are losing lucrative import-export contracts.
Flags of convenience now account for more than half the world's merchant tonnage, and they show no signs of slowing.
This portrait was painted on canvas supplied by T Brown of Holborn, an artist's merchant known to have been used by Constable.
Inside, art enlivens the dark marble lobby by Singapore's LTW Designworks: guests are greeted by Australian artist Jane Cowie's 9.9-meter-tall glass tile installation depicting a koi pond and subtly etched scenes from China Merchant Group's 141-year-old history.
It also includes the Coast Guard but does not include the U.S. Merchant Marines.
When India legend Bishan Bedi criticised spin-merchant Muttiah Muralitharan's bowling action, the Sri Lanka coach was incensed.
The first performance, on 2 November 1967, was Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Mr. Hammons worked as an accountant on the Alaska Highway project before joining the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II.
Those merchants all have at least 5, 000 stores across the U.S. Subway has 24, 000 locations, the most of any U.S. merchant.
Earlier this week he received a Tony nomination for his role in a Broadway production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
They fell in love when she was a high school senior and he was a midshipman at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
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