Private individuals also adopted the practice of endowing professorships. The Megarians were proverbial for their generosity in building and endowing temples. Ulric developed Carniola, endowing many lands to the church and establishing a mint at Kostanjevica. Additionally, endowing Shori with a specific racial identity serves to deconstruct negative stereotypes of blackness. He spent large sums on new buildings and in endowing churches and monasteries. He was instrumental in Numata Foundation's endowing a chair in Buddhist Studies at Oxford. He dropped the video game manual by accident, thus endowing the family with superpowers. The Grelleys acted as stewards, building and endowing the first chancery, the St Nicholas Chancery. He began the task of building and endowing the College of God's Gift at Dulwich. During this period, several neighborhoods in downtown were constructed, endowing it with many bungalows.