An elegant exhibition catalogue does not attempt to sugar-coat the violence against and dispossession of the locals, who died in vast numbers (estimates vary from a conservative 20,000 to at least 60,000) in clashes with explorers, settlers, British soldiers and police until the last accepted massacre at Coniston, Northern Territory, in 1928.
The key to Oprah's vast wealth Forbes estimates her net worth at $2.4 billion–has been in owning her brand.
In other remarks at the news conference, Mr. Bloomberg said that his own vast wealth, estimated at more than $4 billion, kept him from being beholden to special interests.
This was no small matter for a businessman whose vast fortune – estimated by some to be worth about £1.1bn – was made largely overseas.
His vast fortune, estimated at $3 billion, would instantly make him the best-financed candidate in the race, and he has secured support from two of the city's five Republican county chairmen.
Mr. Dewhurst received more votes than Mr. Cruz in the primary, and many pundits say Mr. Dewhurst's institutional support and vast fortune, estimated at $200 million or more, give him the edge.
A vast crowd – estimated by the authorities at 300,000 and more than a million by participants – filled Rio's streets, one of a wave of huge nationwide marches against corruption, police brutality, poor public services and excess spending on the World Cup.
They have also covered the club's vast debts, estimated to be around £70m.
In the process of deportation, the Turkish authorities committed atrocities on a vast scale: most estimates of Armenian deaths have ranged from 600,000 to 1,500,000 for this period.
The sheer scale of violence against women internationally remains vast – the UN estimates that worldwide one in three women will be raped, beaten or abused by an intimate partner in her lifetime.
