In both business and art, Baron Thyssen built upon his enormous inheritance.
Meanwhile, upon the death of Raymond VII in 1249, the county of Toulouse had passed to Raymond's son-in-law, Alphonse of Poitiers, who proceeded to govern it as effectively as his appanage lands; and when he and his wife died without issue in 1271, their enormous inheritance reverted to the royal domain.
Also, it's about how bad mothers are the root of all evil, and good journalism, which is journalism subsidized by enormous inheritances because it's commercially unsustainable, is the root of all solutions.
These were years of great sifting — not just enormous cultural inheritance, but actual, small things: books, teaspoons, Pyrex dishes.
But as the "Bunny money" imbroglio illustrates, those who have amassed enormous wealth, either through inheritance or their own efforts, may operate by a different playbook.
With the enormous Northeim and Brunonian inheritances behind him, Lothar II could humble the Hohenstaufen brothers after marrying his only daughter and heiress to a Welf, Henry the Proud, in 1134.
The information locked in that sequence has enormous symbolic value as our human inheritance.
It was a Republican president, Teddy Roosevelt, that proposed the first permanent inheritance tax, arguing that inheritance of "enormous fortunes" does a society no good.
Despite being of enormous importance, the causes of the predominantly maternal inheritance mode of organelles are not fully understood (e.g. 15, 16).
Enormous tax cuts for the rich are due in capital gains, inheritance and corporation tax while half these families' incomes is falling, says the Resolution Foundation.
As soon as Mendelism was rediscovered in 1900, enormous scientific effort was devoted to investigating the extent to which Mendelian inheritance occurs across the plant and animal kingdoms.
