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Pages in category "Financial services companies established in the 17th century" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In December 1901 and January 1902, at the direction of archaeologist Jacques de Morgan, Father Jean-Vincent Scheil, OP found a 2.25 meter (or 88.5 inch) tall basalt or diorite stele in three pieces inscribed with 4,130 lines of cuneiform law dictated by Hammurabi (c. 1792–1750 BC) of the First Babylonian Empire in the city of Shush, Iran.
The private life-insurance contracts often took the form of group investment pools that paid pensions to nominees. A peculiar feature was often a tontine format that offered windfall profits to surviving nominees. In the 18th century these pools were marketed and controlled by brokers, which gave them a professional character. [50]
17th-century English slave traders (26 P) Pages in category "17th-century English merchants" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 214 total.
The Burney Collection consists of over 1,270 17th-18th century newspapers and other news materials, gathered by Charles Burney, most notable for the 18th-century London newspapers. The original collection, totalling almost 1 million pages, is held by the British Library .
S. Albert George Sandeman; William Sanders (geologist) Philip Sanderson; William Devonshire Saull; John Henry Powell Schneider; Joshua Scholefield; Frederick Francis Seekamp
See also Category:17th-century businesspeople for subcategories by century and nationality. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
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