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Early Life and Education Michael Connelly was born on July 21, 1956 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the second child of Mary and property developer W. Michael. He was introduced to mystery novels as a kid by his mother. When Connelly was 12 years old, he moved with his family to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he went to St. Thomas Aquinas High School. For his higher education, he attended the University of Florida, where he initially studied at the Rinker School of Building Construction....

Early Life and Education Mike Jones was born on November 18, 1981 in Houston, Texas. Growing up, he aspired to become an NBA player, and played in YMCA leagues. Jones attended Booker T. Washington High School, but eventually dropped out. He then worked at a Compaq plant and resold cell phones. Career Beginnings Jones started his music career in the group Souf Folk. With the group, he released the album “Country Thuggin....

Salary As Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi earns a monthly salary of ₹280,000 (approximately $3,500 USD). Early Life and Education Narendra Modi was born on September 17, 1950 in Vadnagar, Bombay State, India into a Gujarati Hindu family of grocers. He was the third of six children of Hiraben and Damodardas. At the age of eight, Modi was introduced to the far-right Hindu nationalist paramilitary group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, and started attending its local training sessions....

He started racing on the Formula Drift circuit in 2007 and received sponsorship from Dodge almost immediately. They dropped him two months later, though he continued to race in two enhanced Dodge Vipers for much of 2007 and then in a Nissan 350Z. He had a reputation for driving too fast around town and was stopped repeatedly for speeding. Unfortunately, Nick gained the wrong kind of media attention after racing illegally....

Randy was drafted #2 by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1975 NFL Draft and moved to middle linebacker. White played his entire career with the Cowboys from 1975 to 1988. During his NFL career White was a nine time Pro Bowl Selection and a nine time First-team All-Pro selection. He was a three time NFC Champion and won Super Bowl XII where he was named co-Super Bowl MVP. In 1988 he won the Ed Block Courage Award....

Before his breakout in television, Gervais worked in radio and dabbled in music, briefly fronting a New Wave band called Seona Dancing in the 1980s. He returned to radio in the late 1990s and early 2000s on London’s XFM, where he partnered with Stephen Merchant and introduced audiences to Karl Pilkington—collaborations that later spun off into popular podcasts and the travel series “An Idiot Abroad.” Following “The Office,” Gervais co-created and starred in “Extras,” a critically acclaimed HBO series that explored the lives of background actors, and later starred in and directed films such as “The Invention of Lying....

He won the 2013 Long Beach Toyota Celebrity Race along with Adam Carolla in the Pro Category. Wood has also hosted the Fox Sports 1 television series NASCAR RaceDay and NASCAR on FOX. He attended the University of Georgia. In May 2015 he started hosting the television series Lost in Transmission. The show features Wood driving around his Georgia hometown with his friend as they fix up old classic cars....

According to the last financial disclosure released by Sandra during her time as a Supreme Court justice, her net worth in 2004 ranged between $3 million and $6.5 million. Early Life and Education Sandra Day O’Connor was born Sandra Day on March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas. She was the daughter of Ada Mae Day and rancher Harry Day. She was raised on a 198,000-acre cattle ranch close to Duncan, Arizona, and grew up hunting coyotes and jackrabbits....

YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter are the main sites used by musicians in order to display their talents and have proven to transform average ‘joes’ into worldwide celebrities. For instance, rapper and producer Soulja Boy, known for his 2007 hit single “Crank That (Soulja Boy),” is a prime example of the power of YouTube – revolutionizing the way artists gain a massive online appeal from a cheap video that turned out to earn him a number one spot on the US Billboard Hot 100....

Shania Twain was born Eileen Regina Edwards on August 28, 1965 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She grew up with her mother and stepfather in Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Her family was very poor when she was growing up. Food was scarce and their home was quite remote. She grew up chopping wood and hunting to supplement their food supply. Her parents fought violently with each other regularly, and her mother suffered from depression....

She had a recurring role as Anna Nardini in the TV series Gilmore Girls from 2003 to 2007. In 2013 she starred as Madame Renee in the series Magic City and from 2002 to 2014 as Elena Hyland in Project: Phoenix. In 2014 Sherilyn starred as Donna Cochran in the television series Ray Donovan. She has also starred in the films Just One of the Guys, Out of Control, Thrashin’, The Wraith, Zombie High, Two Moon Junction, Crime Zone, True Blood, Wild at Heart, Backseat Dreams, Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel, Diary of a Hitman, Ruby, Of Mice and Men, Boxing Helena, Three of Hearts, Fatal Instinct, Just Write, Lovelife, The Shadow Men, Darkness Falls, Cement, Swindle, The United States of Leland, Dream Warrior, Cavedweller, Whitepaddy, Novel Romance, Treasure Raiders, Fist of the Warrior, The Scenesters, Raze, and The Brittany Murphy Story....

Howard Schult was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1952. His family was very poor. Howard was raised in a New York City housing project. In order to distract himself from the poverty at home, Howard escaped through sports. He played high school baseball, football, and basketball. He went to Canarsie High School, graduating in 1971. In high school, Schultz was an exceptional athlete and was awarded a football scholarship to Northern Michigan University—his ticket out of his impoverished childhood....

The move was nuts. Yes, he was a great player in his day, having won five NBA titles. He played under some of the best coaches in the business. He had front office experience, having served as the Phoenix Suns general manager for a few years, but he had never coached. Yet since the New York Knicks were also trying to sign him, the Warriors gave put forth a pretty hefty deal for any coach… let alone a newcomer – five years, $25 million – making him one of the higher paid coaches in the league before he even coached his first game....

Her first television roles came in the mid-1960s on the TV series The Doctors and the Nurses, The Defenders, and The Patty Duke Show. In 1983 she starred as Grace McKenzie in the series The Yellow Rose. Anspach also starred in the 1985 TV mini-series Space and in the TV series The Slap Maxwell Story from 1987 to 1988. She also starred in the movies The Landlord, Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again, Sam, Blume in Love, The Big Fix, Running, The Devil and Max Devlin, Gas, Montenegro, Misunderstood, Into The Fire, and Dancing at the Harvest Moon....

Early Life and High School Teddy Bridgewater Jr. was born on November 10, 1992, in Miami, Florida, as the youngest of four children of single mother Rose. As a teenager, he attended Miami Northwestern Senior High School, where he was a star football quarterback. In his sophomore year, Bridgewater recorded 1,560 yards with 16 touchdowns and three interceptions as Northwestern finished the season 13-3. As a junior, he passed for 2,546 yards and 32 touchdowns and rushed for 379 yards....

The discovery was made thanks to the Remus 6000, a drone-operated submarine owned by the Dalio Foundation, of hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio. Jeff Kaeli, an engineer at Woods Hole, told CBS News how it felt when he saw the tell-tale dolphin engravings on bronze cannons found at the site of the wreck, engravings that meant the wreck could only be the San Jose: “I just sat there for about 10 minutes and smiled…I’m not a marine archaeologist, but…I know what a cannon looks like....

Berlusconi’s children told Italian news outlet ANSA that Villa San Martino, his notorious “bunga bunga” orgy pad is staying in the family. Daughter Marina Berlusconi made the announcement: “Villa San Martino must stay alive. We want it to remain the venue for business meetings, as well as, of course, the meeting point for our family…It is what [my father] would have wished.” However, the Berlusconi kids will have to reach an arrangement with Berlusconi’s pseudo-wife Marta Fascina, who is currently still residing there (and who recently inherited more than $100 million in Berlusconi’s will)....

Rossington died this year at age 71, and the roughly 80-acre estate represents years of acquisitions by he and his widow, Dale Rossington. They bought the first parcel of what would become the grand estate in 1997 for $1 million, constructing the estate’s recently renovated main house soon after. As the home’s official listing makes clear, this is a true nature lover’s retreat: “Surrounded by mature trees and forest, the property has two versatile barns ready for storage or conversion into animal spaces....

Kinkade’s art business was extremely lucrative – at its peak his franchised galleries and merchandise generated over $100 million in annual sales. Much of his fortune was tied up in assets like his Montecito-area mansion (worth ~$7M) and an enormous collection of original paintings that remained unsold. Estate Battle After Thomas Kinkade’s death in 2012, a bitter legal dispute erupted between his estranged wife, Nanette Kinkade, and his girlfriend, Amy Pinto-Walsh....

But having retired more than a decade ago, he decided to sell bulk of his shares in November 2012. It was maybe too early, as the stock of the company has climbed steadily since May 2013, enough for him to get back to the billionaire ranks after one year absence. Aside from the above, Thomas Straumann set up and has been chairing implant maker Medartis, and he owns Swiss luxury hotels Hotel Les Trois Roi and Grand Hotel Bellevue, as well as a stable of race horses....