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Retro-Trader

The collection has many items which exist nowhere else in the world, such as the only known surviving Sinclair C5 concept artwork, and also many pieces of original retro gaming cover art, from the likes of artists such as Roger Garland, better known for his artwork for the J. R. R. Tolkien book The Lord of the Rings.


Balla Moussa Keïta

Keïta initially worked as a middleman trader, buying fish and rice from Mopti and Dioro and reselling them in Bamako.

Birchgrove, New South Wales

In March 1814, the estate was purchased by merchant trader Roland Walpole Loane.

Blaze Berdahl

On July 15, 2007, Berdahl married Stephen M. Tvardek, an S&P futures trader, at the Onteora Mountain House in Boiceville, New York.

Bonk's Adventure

In episode #60 of GameCenter CX (known as "Retro Game Master" outside of Japan), Shinya Arino, the host of the show, played through the PC Engine version of the game and successfully cleared it.

Charles John Andersson

Karl John (Karl Johan) Andersson (March 4, 1827, in Värmland, Sweden – July 9, 1867 in Angola) was a Swedish explorer, hunter and trader as well as an amateur naturalist and ornithologist.

Charles K. Harris

His father was a fur trader and moved the family to Saginaw, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he grew up.

Commodities Corporation

Ed Seykota, a computer scientist, technical trader and pioneer in System Trading

David Sassoon

He sent his son Elias David Sassoon to Canton, where he was the first Jewish trader (with 24 Parsi rivals).

David Stuart

David Stuart (fur trader), fur trader with the North West Company and Pacific Fur Company, and one of the founders of Fort Astoria

Delaware Bay

In 1523 Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón had received from Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor a grant for the land explored in 1521 by Francisco Gordillo and slave trader Captain Pedro de Quejo (de Quexo).

Drummond geometry

Drummond geometry is a trading method consisting of a series of technical analysis tools invented by the Canadian trader Charles Drummond starting in the 1970s and continuing to the present (2010).

Frankie J. Holden

During the 1970s Holden was the frontman for the Australian retro-rock band Ol' 55, which also included Wilbur Wilde and Jimmy Manzie.

Free Trader

Free Trader was a political label used in the United Kingdom by several candidates in the 1906 general election and January 1910 general election.

Itanos

Herodotus recorded that the settlers from Thera (modern Santorini) who founded Cyrene owed their knowledge of the coast to an Itanian trader named Corobios.

John E. Phelps

The former Springfield, Missouri-born grocer and cattle trader started his military career as a secret agent for Nathaniel Lyon in 1861.

Journey Beyond Three Seas

The film tells the story of Afanasy Nikitin (Oleg Strizhenov), a 15th-century, Russian trader who travelled to India (1466-1472), and falls in love with an Indian girl Champa (Nargis Dutt).

Judy Peiser

Peiser has produced numerous documentary films including Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer, Gravel Springs Fife and Drum, and Ray Lum: Mule Trader, available on the Folkstreams project's website.

KLKN

On January 16, 2012, KLKN, along with all Citadel stations (including WLNE-TV in Providence and KCAU-TV in Sioux City), began carrying Disney/ABC's Live Well Network, replacing the Retro Television Network on its subchannel and cable channels.

Koschei

In The Sandman: Fables and Reflections, Koschei's emerald heart (or, more likely a piece of green glass being passed off as such) passes into the possession of a Romani trader, then a werewolf, and finally Baba Yaga.

Kwamena Bartels

Bartels is a member of the Afro-European Bartels family, whose ancestor Cornelius Ludewich Bartels was Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast between 1798 and 1804, and whose son Carel Hendrik Bartels was the most important mulatto trader on the Gold Coast in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.

Leonard Whibley

Leonard was a half-brother of Fred Whibley, copra trader, on Niutao, Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu); and his half-sister was Eliza Eleanor (Lillie), wife of John T. Arundel, owner of J. T. Arundel and Company which evolved into the Pacific Islands Company, and later the Pacific Phosphate Company, which commenced phosphate mining in Nauru and Banaba Island (Ocean Island).

Levasseur

Noel Le Vasseur (1798-1879), a trader and merchant born in St. Michel d`Yamaska, Canada

Matt Barton

The videos include reviews of retro games and interviews with game developers such as John Romero, Brian Fargo, Tim Cain and Chris Avellone.

New Life Russian Radio

New Life has the exclusive rights to rebroadcast the audio from the Russian Division of the BBC and several radio stations in Russia including: 'Echo of Moscow', 'Russian Radio', 'Radio Retro' and more.

Nicholas Sheran

After his service in the American Civil War, Sheran followed a fellow soldier (Joseph Healy, a member of the Kainai Nation who was adopted by the Healy family) to Montana where he worked as a prospecter and trader.

Nikola Bošković

Nikola came to Dubrovnik as a boy and his parents sent him to become a trader's apprentice for a wealthy trader called Rad Gleđević, who then dispatched him to Novi Pazar in the Ottoman Empire (today Sandžak, Serbia) to learn from the local traders.

Notman House

It stood on a substantial plot of land surrounded by fields with Elm and Maple trees, purchased from the subdivided estate of John Clarke (1781-1852), a retired fur-trader of the North West Company.

Nury Vittachi

Vittachi started his journalism career on Morning Telegraph in Sheffield in the north of England before moving to London's Fleet Street, then to Hong Kong, where he wrote the gossip columns "Lai See" (see red envelope) and "Spice Trader" for the South China Morning Post until 1997.

Panyarring

In 1788, a British trader bought 30 persons held in pawnship in Bimbia, in present-day Cameroon, for transport to the Americas.

Peggielene Bartels

Bartels is a member of the Afro-European Bartels family, whose ancestor Cornelius Ludewich Bartels was Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast between 1798 and 1804, and whose son Carel Hendrik Bartels was the most prominent biracial slave trader on the Gold Coast in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.

Pierre de Piton

Pierre de Piton was accompanied by 5 men, as well as French trader Hémon de Molon, who had brought enthusiastic reports from Morocco in a trip there in 1531-32, as well as a letter from the Sultan to Francis I.

Radio Tip Top

Produced by the Tip Top Organisation (co-founded by Nigel Proktor), the show was a retro take on 1960s broadcasting, presented by The Ginger Prince and Kid Tempo.

Red Moss, Aberdeenshire

Alexander Silver, a wealthy East India trader, built Netherley House, a mansion house in Netherley in the late 18th century; he and his son George Silver were noted agricultural innovators of their era.

Richard Duncan

Richard Duncan Fraser (c. 1784–1857), fur trader, businessman, farmer and political figure in Upper Canada

Richard Fraser

Richard Duncan Fraser (c. 1784–1857), Canadian fur trader and businessman

Robert Berning

Joe Coulombe, the founder of Trader Joe's, said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that Berning was brought into the company's main office in 1970 because he had expressed interest in wines.

Setkul Ablin

He was called a 'Bukharan' but the Russians used this term loosely for any trader from Central Asia.

Shelikhov

Grigory Shelikhov (1747-1795), also spelled "Shelikof", a Russian fur trader

The Amazing Grace

The film, occasionally narrated by Joke Silva, tells the reformation story of British slave trader John Newton (Nick Moran), sailing to what is now Nigeria to buy slaves but, increasingly shocked by the brutality of slavery, later gave up the trade and became an Anglican priest.

The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron

The film offers the perspective of Cruver, played by Christian Kane, depicted as a brilliant but naïve young energy trader who was seduced by the company's "get rich quick" mantra.

The Kooks

Calling The Kooks "an important reminder that there are just as many mediocre bands in the UK as there are in the United States" reviewer Jenny Eliscu of Rolling Stone claimed the album was "utterly forgettable, shoddily produced retro rock that at its worst sounds like a Brighton-accented version of the Spin Doctors".

The Lillingtons

The result was Death By Television, an album that took sci-fi movie-themed songs such as "War Of The Worlds" and "Invasion Of The Saucermen" and combined them with tracks that made references to other retro themes, such as "X-Ray Specs."

The Lost 45s

"The Lost 45s" with "Barry Scott" is an American Classic Hits retro music radio program playing Top 40 hits from the 70s and 80s that you don't often hear anymore.

Thomas McDonnell, Snr.

(1788 in County Antrim, Ireland – 13 September 1864 in Onehunga, Auckland) was a timber trader and Additional British Resident in New Zealand.

Trader-Price

Trader-Price is an American country music group from Burns Flat, Oklahoma composed of brothers Dan, Chris and Erick Trader-Price and Don Bell.

Two Seater and Retro Glider Aerobatic Cup Zbraslavice

Two Seater and Retro Glider Aerobatic Cup Zbraslavice is a special combined aerobatic competition, held at Zbraslavice Airport in the Czech Republic.

William Gurnall

John Newton, the converted slave trader, said that if he was confined to one book beside the Bible, he'd choose Christian Armour. Cecil spent many of the last days of his life in reading it, and repeatedly expressed his admiration of it.


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