Early Life Banks was born on May 31, 1991, in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. She was the youngest of three sisters and was raised by her mother after her father died when she was two from pancreatic cancer. The home life was not a happy one, though, as Banks has since come forward describing that her mother was extremely abusive to her and her sisters. At the age of 14, Banks moved out of her mom’s house to live with one of her older sisters....
Contracts, Salaries & Career Earnings Over a 16-year NFL career (1988–2003), Bill Romanowski signed multiple lucrative contracts, accumulating an estimated $30 million in total earnings. Among his notable deals was a seven-year contract with the Raiders in 2002, which included a $1.3 million signing bonus and a $700,000 base salary that first season. While individual yearly figures varied—ranging from roughly $1.7 million to $2.2 million during his Denver Broncos tenure—Romanowski ultimately left the league with four Super Bowl rings and significant career earnings, though not without financial and legal challenges in the years following his retirement....
Carlos Bulgheroni was named president and chairman of the company in 1993. He became the president of PanAmerican Energy in 1997 and of Allis-Chalmers in 2006. Carlos Bulgheroni co-founded the Colon Theatre Foundation in 1978 and the Federal District Police Foundation in 1989. He served as a co-chairman of the International Committee at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Carlos and Alejandro Bulgheroni sold a 50% stake in Bridas to CNOOC for $3....
Brown first appeared on television in an episode of the TV series The Cosby Show in 1987. She starred as Kimberly Reese on the series A Different World from 1988 to 1993. She starred in the movies How U Like Me Now in 1992 and Drop Squad in 1994. Brown also appeared in episodes of the TV series Martin, Living Single, Girlfriends, and My Wife and Kids. Brown produced the shorts Genesis: Adam & Eve and The Prank....
Mentzelopoulos’s father paid a relatively bargain basement $16 million for the winery in 1977 after it had been for sale for two years. The rise in popularity (and demand) of wine over the past 40 years as well as a growing group of billionaires willing to pay billions for assets they consider trophies, makes the Margaux property worth at least $1 billion today. However, Mentzelopoulos has no intention of selling....
Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Clemmie Spangler, Jr., graduated from the University of North Carolina, and then earned an MBA from Harvard University. He took over management of his father’s bank, Bank of North Carolina while it was struggling. In the early 80s, he merged it with North Carolina National Bank, and then merged it with Bank of America. In addition to his banking work, he is the Head of National Gypsum, a building materials company....
Crisp is a switch-batter who throws right-handed from the center field position. Crisp has four children with his wife: three sons and one daughter. Coco earned his nickname as a child when his siblings teased him for resembling one of the animated characters on the cereal box for Cocoa Krispies, though the name didn’t stick until Crisp made his way into MLB’s farm system. He legally changed his name during the spring of 2013....
Ford appeared in the movies Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!, Hellbent, Naked Fame, Circuit, and The Next Best Thing. As a singer his musical styles include electronica, house, and dance and he has released the albums Tug of War, Under the Covers, The Way I Am, and Next Chapter. His single “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” (feat. Pepper Mashay) reached #9 on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart.
As of today, O’Brien is looking toward Myanmar, as the former dictatorship open up millions of potential customers after easing sanctions. Apart from seeing his wealth grow, he is also focused on philanthropy, especially in Haiti’s earthquake-ravaged areas, where Digicel has built nearly 100 schools and it is going to build 50 more in the next year. Born to a human activist father, he tries to operate his companies on an 80% – business, 20% -philanthropy ethic....
Godzilla, The Lost World of Sinbad, Mothra vs. Godzilla, Frankenstein Conquers the World, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, Invasion of Astro-Monster, War of the Gargantuas, Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, King Kong Escapes, Son of Godzilla, Destroy All Monsters, All Monsters Attack, and Ultraman. He founded the visual effects studio Tsuburaya Productions. In July 2015 Google honored him with an animated doodle of his skill with special effects.
Early Life Enes Batur was born Enes Batur Sungurtekin on April 9, 1998, in Ankara, Turkey. His mother, Arzu, is from Malatya, and his father, Fatih, is from Adana. Batur studied computer science at Antalya Bilim University, but after he started getting popular on YouTube, he decided to enroll in Nişantaşı University’s Cinema and Television Department. Career In 2013, Batur launched the YouTube channel newdaynewgame, and as of this writing, more than 16 million people have subscribed to the channel....
Early Life and Education Enes Kanter was born on May 20, 1992 in Zürich, Switzerland to Turkish parents Gülsüm and Mehmet. He has two younger brothers and a younger sister. Growing up, Kanter attended Hizmet schools in Turkey. He also played basketball for the youth squad of Fenerbahçe between 2006 and 2008. Although Kanter was offered professional contracts from both Fenerbahçe and the Greek club Olympiacos, he declined them because he wanted to play basketball in the United States....
The politically involved businessman saw his fortune climb by $3 billion due to last May’s listing of Bloomberry Resorts, his new Solaire Resort & Casino venture in which he retains a 71% stake. Then in December, he sold nearly 9% stake in Bloomberry to Global Gaming, the casino manager at much below market value as per a previously arranged deal. Apart from his professional engagements, Enrique Razon Jr is an avid golf player and as such he backs the Philippines Golf Tour....
In 2012 Gene Ween quit the band which ended their 28 year run. Ween released 11 studio albums and six life albums as well as eight EPs. Their best known singles include “Push th’ Little Daisies”, “Freedom of ‘76”, “Voodoo Lady”, “Piss Up a Rope”, “Mutilated Lips”, “Ocean Man”, and “Even If You Don’t”. After Ween broke up he started using his birth name Aaron Freeman and formed the band Freeman in 2014....
From 2009 to 2010 he hosted the Finnish version of the reality television series The Apprentice. Harkimo finished third place in the BOC Challenge around the world single-handed yacht race from 1986 to 1987. He was elected to the Finnish parliament in 2015.
Early Life Hidetaka Miyazaki was born on September 19, 1974, in Shizuoka, Japan. Growing up largely without means, he was unable to afford many books and instead borrowed extensively from the local library. Miyazaki read various English science-fiction and fantasy books even though he didn’t understand the language; mainly, he would focus on the accompanying illustrations. Prohibited by his parents from playing video games, he played tabletop games such as “Dungeons & Dragons....
Gina’s father Lang Hancock was born into one of Australia’s largest land-owning families in April of 1909. One day in late 1952, Lang and his wife were flying over a rural area of Western Australia called Pilbara on their way to Perth in a small private plane. Bad weather forced him to re-route the plane over a particularly rugged section of terrain. While flying through, Lang noticed the nearby mountain walls appeared to be made up of what looked like solid iron ore....
You know how Microsoft dominated personal computing with software like Excel and Word? Oracle had the same dominance with software that powered payroll systems, hospital records, hotel/airline booking services… etc. If you receive a paycheck from or fill out expense reports for a medium to large company, there’s a good chance Oracle is powering that software behind the scenes. Oracle went public on March 12, 1986, literally ONE DAY before his rival, Bill Gates, took Microsoft public....
Early Life and Education Itzhak Perlman was born on August 31, 1945, in Tel Aviv, in what was then Mandatory Palestine, now Israel. His parents were Shoshana and Chaim, Jewish natives from Poland who had immigrated separately in the mid-1930s before later meeting and marrying. Perlman originally got interested in the violin when he heard a radio performance using the instrument. When he was three years old, he tried to get into the Shulamit Conservatory, but was denied admission on account of being too small to properly hold a violin....
Early Life and Entry into Fishing Jacob Van Martin Anderson was born on September 16, 1980, in Forks, Washington. He grew up in a family of loggers and was exposed early on to hard, physical labor. However, his teenage years and early adulthood were marked by personal struggles, including addiction and homelessness. Seeking a fresh start, Anderson entered the world of crab fishing in the mid-2000s. In 2007, he joined the crew of the F/V Northwestern under Sig Hansen....
