TEHRAN — The Iranian government declared a sudden, two-day national holiday on Sunday and Monday, after a long-simmering dispute between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Tehran bazaar erupted last week, leaving one prominent merchant dead, according to opposition Web sites.
We might have got something out of the leisurely contemplation of the crumbling brownstone graves where sleep dead merchants and shipmasters of this city, to whom thepreparation and dispatch of a letter was a weighty business desrving their best in elegance of style lucidity of expressionk, and grace of penmanship.
Back in the city of Santa Cruz, a merchant was shot dead apparently during a robbery.
"The merchant of death is dead," thundered one French paper, which said that Nobel "became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before".
The French newspapers reported Ludvig's death but confused him with Alfred, and one paper sported the headline "Le marchand de la mort est mort" ("The merchant of death is dead").
The headline was "The Merchant of Death is Dead," and it said that "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday".
One sported the headline: "Le marchand de la mort est mort" (the merchant of death is dead).
In 1888, Nobel was astonished to read his own obituary, titled The merchant of death is dead, in a French newspaper.
He was part of a roughly half-million dollar round in Bitpay, which is trying to make it dead simple for merchants to incorporate Bitcoin as a payments method.
The Federal Reserve has taken dead aim on merchant banking, proposing to ban the practice as part of a "take no risk" regulation strategy.
