One of the most serious allegations was that Mr. Rich had misrepresented the provenance of crude oil he sold in 1980 and 1981.
For anyone who still thinks of museums as places to view valuable works of art, you should know that they are also outlets for tchotchkes that are rich in pedigree and provenance.
Hedge funds—which theoretically mitigate risk by taking both short and long positions but often engage in reckless behavior anyway are the provenance of rich people who supposedly know what they're doing, or at least are less likely to lose their shirts while gambling.
Online museum inventories, with details of acquisition and provenance, are another rich source of information.
High quality music has long been the provenance of the rich and/or aged and, although I suspect this will appeal more to the older listener, at least Young is tackling one of the roadblocks to dulcet, high quality tracks.
Of course, no matter how popular hybrids become, cars like these they'll all cost much more than the $22,800 Toyota Prius hybrid or the $19,800 Honda Insight hybrid will always be the provenance of the rich.
Overall, the ability to collect far larger amounts of sequence data has led to much broader and deeper characterizations of the human microbiome and microbial communities in other habitats, especially when linked to rich contextual information about the provenance and status of each sample (Knight et al. 2012).
"It's unusual to have four Degas bronzes in one sale," said Franck Giraud, head of Impressionist and modern art for Christie's worldwide, and these came with not only a prestigious provenance but also a rich patina.
The wedge-top basin was filled by a quartz-rich sandstone-dominated succession of Andean provenance.
It is rich in ornate, curious details, occasionally Moorish in provenance.
