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Tontines (or
schemes described as
tontines) have been
featured as plot
devices in many stories,
movies and
television programs, including: La
Tontine...
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tontine is an
investment plan for
raising capital,
devised in the 17th century.
Tontine may also
refer to:
Tontine Building, in Vermont, USA
Tontine Buildings...
- The
Tontine Coffee House was a
coffeehouse in Manhattan, New York City,
established in
early 1793.
Situated at 82 Wall Street, on the north-west corner...
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Tontine is an
Australian manufacturer of
pillows and quilts. The
company can
trace its
origins back to 1870 when the Galt
family commenced manufacturing...
- The
Cleveland Tontine is a
historic building in
Ingleby Arncliffe, a
village in
North Yorkshire, in England. In the
early 19th century, a
turnpike was...
- two-thirds of the life
insurance in the
United States was in the form of
tontines.
Tontine insurance was
first developed in the
United States by
Sheppard Homans...
- push of
industry into the area
forced its
demolition in 1858. The name "
Tontine"
derives from a
financial scheme originated by
Neapolitan banker Lorenzo...
- 27
January 1975. On 9 May 1974, 53-year-old Quek Lee Eng, the head of a
tontine group and wife of a
wealthy local textile merchant Sim Keng Soy (aged 54...
- Present. John
Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4051-3935-9. Weir,
David (1989). "
Tontines,
Public Finance, and
Revolution in
France and England, 1688–1789". The...
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weight limit) and
followed the
current B1460 out of Whitby. A172 A19 at
Tontine A66 in
Middlesbrough The
original route through Stokesley is now the B1365...
