Early Life and Education Paul Mescal was born on February 2, 1996 in Maynooth, Ireland as the eldest of three children of Dearbhla and Paul. As a kid, he went to Maynooth Post Primary School. Mescal also played as a minor and under-21 Gaelic football player. However, he gave up the sport following a jaw injury. Mescal went on to pursue an acting career on stage, playing the titular character in the musical “The Phantom of the Opera” when he was 16....

Early Life Percy Sledge was born on November 25, 1940 in Leighton, Alabama. Career Beginnings Before becoming a professional singer, Sledge worked in agriculture in the fields near his hometown of Leighton. He then became an orderly at Colbert County Hospital in Sheffield, Alabama. Rise to Fame While working at Colbert County Hospital, Sledge was introduced to record producer Quin Ivy via a former patient and mutual friend. He went on to audition for Ivy and land a recording contract....

From 2007 to 2008 he starred in his own television series The Peter Serafinowicz Show. He starred as Fa’ad Shaoulian from 2010 to 2011. Peter Serafinowicz starred as the title role in the 2017 TV series The Tick and has provided voice work for several TV series including People of Earth. He provided the voice of Darth Maul in the movie Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and has starred in the movies Shaun of the Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy, Spy, John Wick: Chapter 2, and more....

The book is called Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures, by Ben Mezrich, and according to The Guardian it says Thiel gave $100,000 to Harvard University genomics professor, George Church, in 2015 for the wake-up-Woolly project. Thiel has declined to comment on the investment (no surprise given his secretive inclinations), but Church confirmed it, telling the paper that over a breakfast meeting Thiel told him he was interested in funding “the craziest thing” Church was working on....

Early life Salvatore “Robert” Loggia was born on January 3, 1930, in Staten Island, New York. He was the son of Biagio Loggia, a shoemaker born in Palma di Montechiaro, Province of Agrigento, Sicily, and Elena Blandino, a homemaker born in Vittoria, Province of Ragusa, Sicily. Loggia grew up in the Little Italy neighborhood, where the family spoke Italian at home. Robert graduated from New Dorp High School before taking courses at Wagner College, where he joined the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity and played for the university’s football team....

Robert Montgomery was born in Fishkill Landing, New York in May 1904 and passed away in September 1981. He served in the United States Navy, achieving the rank of Lieutenant commander during World War II and receiving several awards. Montgomery served as the 3rd and 8th President of the Screen Actors Guild from 1935 to 1938 and 1946 to 1947. He was the father of Elizabeth Montgomery. Montgomery worked with MGM in comedies and then in dramas....

Rory Albanese was born in Long Island, New York in May 1977. He graduated from Boston University’s College of Communication and joined Lewis Black’s stand-up comedy tour in 2006. Albanese served as executive producer for the TV series The Daily Show from 2008 to 2013 and also served as a supervising producer, co-executive producer, and segment producer. He served as executive producer for the television series The Approval Matrix in 2014....

Roxy has been working in design since the age of 16 when she started a clothing line with her sister Tara called RoxTar. Upon earning her undergraduate degree from USC’s Marshall School of Business, Roxy decided that she wanted to re-focus her design interests from fashion to interior design. She enrolled at the Parsons New School of Design to obtain her Master degree in Interior Design. During her time in New York, Roxy worked as a freelancer on a number of residential projects in Manhattan, as well as a home in Aspen....

The leap to the NFL came in 1996 when Payton joined the Philadelphia Eagles as a quarterbacks coach, working under Ray Rhodes. His impact was soon felt, and he quickly ascended the ranks. He served as the quarterbacks coach for the New York Giants (1999-2000) and later their offensive coordinator (2000-2002), playing a pivotal role in their Super Bowl XXXV appearance. Payton’s big break came in 2006 when he was appointed the head coach of the New Orleans Saints....

That price is around $350 per share, while the current value of Tesla stock is closer to $800 per share, so the difference comes out to a value of about $770 million for Musk. It’s not known yet whether Musk has exercised these stock options, but recent financial filings from the company made it official that he had indeed qualified for them: “As of the date of this proxy statement, one of the 12 tranches under this award has vested and become exercisable, subject to Mr....

Also, it’s pretty hard to become a billionaire as a chef or restauranteur, but that’s exactly what Zhang has accomplished. Zhang’s Haidilao chain of hot pot restaurants have taken over the world. At the end of 2018, Haidilao Hot Pot had 466 restaurants in more than a hundred cities, including Los Angeles. Zhang, 49, was born into poverty in rural Jianyan, Sichuan, China in 1970. Today, Zhang has a net worth of $13....

Unfortunately after earning more than $12 million in salary, in 2016 while facing an aggravated assault charge, Tarvaris told a Washington judge he was broke and needed a public defender. At the time he told the judge he had “no income, no savings, no bank accounts, stocks [and that his only possession was] a $100,000 car.” Tarvaris Jackson was born in 1983 in Montgomery, Alabama where he played high school football at Sidney Lanier High School....

And, of course, we get to see the best athletes in the world competing at the highest level. That’s been apparent on the basketball court, where we’ve had tons of NBA talent participating across nations. It’s culminating with the United States facing France for the gold medal. The French are represented by five current NBA players, including Victor Wembanyama, Rudy Gobert, Nicolas Batum, and Bilal Coulibaly. Evan Fournier is currently a free agent but was on an NBA roster last season....

In fact, North Korea purchased $645.8 million worth of luxury goods in 2012. North Korea spends more on luxury goods than on lawful imports. This is odd because in March 2016, Jong-Un warned his citizens to prepare for famine. So where’s the money for all those luxury goods coming from? It is believed that the luxury purchases are made using Kim Jong-Un’s personal piggy bank that comes from the capital city of Pyongyang’s illegal and illicit dealings around the world....

Tony Blackburn is a legendary British radio broadcaster whose career has spanned over six decades, making him one of the most enduring personalities in British broadcasting history. Born Anthony Kenneth Blackburn on January 29, 1943, in Guildford, Surrey, he began his career in radio during the 1960s on the pirate stations Radio Caroline and Radio London, where he developed his distinctive upbeat presenting style. In 1967, Blackburn achieved a significant milestone when he became the first DJ to broadcast on BBC Radio 1 when it launched, hosting the breakfast show....

As we detail in the next section below, Ty actually earned the majority of his fortune thanks to early investments in companies like Coca-Cola and General Motors. He also owned an enormous swath of Lake Tahoe, which he purchased for pennies on the dollar during the Great Depression. Ty Cobb, nicknamed “The Georgia Peach,” dominated baseball for over two decades during its Dead Ball Era and stands as one of the greatest players in MLB history....

There are many factors that determine the precise amount Munoz will get as a bonus, but according to a recent Fortune report, about a half a million dollars’ worth of his estimated $13 million bonus package is tied to how well the airline’s customers rate it in satisfaction surveys. Munoz’s initial response to the video of Dr. David Dao being forcibly dragged off a United flight after declining to “voluntarily” disembark when the flight was overbooked, caused even more uproar, with some customers going so far as cutting up their United loyalty reward cards in protest....

Farnum in the TV series Deadwood. From 2008 to 2012 he starred as Sheriff Bud Dearborne on the television series True Blood. Sanderson has had recurring roles in the TV series Lonesome Dove, Return to Lonesome Dove, Maximum Bob, Walker, Texas Ranger, and Bar Karma. He has also starred in the movies Savage Weekend, The Onion Field, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Blade Runner, Lone Wolf McQuade, Fletch, Deadly Weapon, Rocketeer, Wagons East, Last Man Standing, and Gods and Generals....

His biggest accomplishments include: Winning the Wells Fargo Championship in 2023, his first PGA Tour victory. Finishing second at the Bermuda Championship in 2020, losing a playoff to Brian Gay. Earning his PGA Tour card for the 2018–19 season by finishing 16th on the Web.com Tour money list in 2017. Making 24 starts on the Web.com Tour in 2017, with four top-10 finishes. Winning the Pac-12 Conference championship and Golfweek Player of the Year in 2016 while playing for the University of Oregon....

As of this writing, 30 feature films have crossed the billion-dollar margin worldwide, which of course becomes incrementally easier as ticket prices go up due to inflation. But only six movies have have joined the billionaire’s club in markets outside the United States, and The Fate of the Furious isn’t even the first movie in the Fast and the Furious franchise to achieve this milestone. The last movie, 2015’s Furious 7, is currently the sixth highest grossing film of all time, scoring a total worldwide box office take of $1,516,045,911, with $1....