Early Years Michio Kaku was born on January 24, 1947, in San Jose, California. His grandparents came to America from Japan, and during World War II, his parents were incarcerated at the Tule Lake War Relocation Center in California – one of ten such camps constructed by the United States government in 1942 for the containment of Japanese-Americans. As a young man, Michio discovered that theoretical physicist Albert Einstein had never completed his unified field theory and became fascinated by the subject....

As the sole father of the currency, he was awarded bitcoin currency at the beginning and for a few days afterward. Except for a few testing transactions, those initial units have remained unspent since 2009, and the public logs show that he now holds roughly one million bitcoins or over $1.1 billion in bitcoin currency. While Nakamoto claims to be a Japanese man born in April of 1975, some have speculated that he may be one of many cryptology and computer science experts in the United States or Europe....

Lauda retired in 1979 and then returned to racing in 1982. He raced with moderate success, even winning a third world championship in 1984 by half a point, then officially retired in 1985 to run his two airlines, Lauda Air and Niki. During his racing career, Niki entered 171 races and ended up with 25 wins and three championships. He also wrote five books, including “My Years with Ferrari” (1978) and “To Hell and Back: An Autobiography” (1986), and he was portrayed by Daniel Brühl in the 2013 film “Rush” (he also had a cameo in the film)....

Their next four albums Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief, and In Rainbows all reached #1 in the UK and several other countries. Radiohead released the album The King of Limbs in 2011 and their 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool #1 in the UK and Ireland. Radiohead has had success with the singles “Creep”, “High and Dry”, “Fake Plastic Trees”, “Paranoid Android”, “Karma Police”, “No Surprises”, and more....

Early Life Ray Stevens was born Harold Ray Ragsdale on January 24, 1939, in Clarkdale, Georgia. He is the son of Frances Stephens Ragsdale and Willis Harold Ragsdale, who passed away in 1997 and 2001, respectively. Ray’s younger brother, John (who died in 2020), was a writer and actor. As a teenager, Stevens formed a rhythm and blues band called The Barons. After graduation, he majored in music at Georgia State University....

Early Life Robert Graysmith was born Robert Gray Smith on September 17, 1942 in Pensacola, Florida. Zodiac Graysmith began his career as a political cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle. While working for the paper in 1969, he became wrapped up in the case of the ‘Zodiac Killer,’ an unidentified serial killer who murdered at least five people in the San Francisco Bay Area from late 1968 to late 1969. During his spree, the Zodiac Killer sent letters to the San Francisco Chronicle that he requested be published in the paper....

Monaco Legend Group is auctioning off the watch on July 19th in concert with auction house Antiquorum, and expects it to be worth as much as $1.6 million. As they put it, the watch was purchased in December of 2015 by a certain unnamed VIP, who bought it for the purpose of presenting it to the Russian president as a gift. These intentions were serious and convincing enough for the store it was purchased from, Watches of Switzerland, to have Putin’s full name listed on the watch’s certificate of origin as the owner, but the Kremlin calls this claim “fake news,” and that “Mr Vladimir Vladimirovic Putin” never owned the watch....

Ryan Day was born in Manchester, New Hampshire on March 12, 1979. He was a quarterback who played at New Hampshire. Day began his coaching career as the tight ends coach at New Hampshire in 2002. He was a general assistant at Boston College from 2003 to 2004 and at Florida in 2005. Ryan Day was a wide receivers coach at Tempe in 2006 and at Boston College from 2007 to 2011....

Beyond Bond, Connery showcased his versatility in a wide range of roles. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in “The Untouchables” (1987) and received critical acclaim for performances in films like “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” “The Hunt for Red October,” and “The Rock.” Connery’s career spanned six decades, during which he worked with renowned directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, and Steven Spielberg. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000 for his contributions to the arts....

Early Life Sela Ann Ward was born on July 11th, 1956, in Meridian, Mississippi. Raised by a housewife and an electrical engineer alongside four younger siblings, Sela attended high school in Meridian before attending the University of Alabama. During her college years, she became Homecoming Queen while also joining the cheerleading team and the Chi Omega sorority. As far as her academic studies go, Ward double-majored in fine art and advertising....

Stephanie Beatriz was born in Neuquen, Neuquen, Argentina in February 1981. Her first acting credit came in an episode of the television series The Closer in 2009. Beatriz has provided voice roles for TV series including Human Discoveries, BoJack Horseman, Twelve Forever, and Bob’s Burgers. She has also provided voicework for the movies Ice Age: Collision Course and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. In 2013 she began starring as Rosa Diaz on the series Brooklyn Nine-Nine....

Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that they were involved in one of the most bizarre trade sequences in recent NBA history. Let’s jump back to the summer of 2016. The Magic finished 35-47 the previous season, their best record since the 2011-12 campaign. Looking to bolster their roster, they traded Victor Oladipo, Ersan Ilyasova, and the draft rights to Damontas Sabonis to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for Serge Ibaka....

The couple has known each other for three decades. Peters has been married four times before he married Anderson. His marriage to Henrietta Zampitella ended in 1966. In 1967, he married actress Lesley Ann Warren. They divorced in 1977. From 1987 to 1993, he was married to producer Christine Forsyth-Peters. In 2001, he married Mindy Peters. They divorced in 2004. Anderson, of course, was previously married to drummer Tommy Lee from 1995 to 1998....

In Florence, Italy, however, the same families have reigned supreme for nearly 600 years! Two Italian economists conducted a study that compared Florentine taxpayers from 2011 with those in 1427. The wealth and surnames stacked up in each year, suggesting the richest families from 600 years ago are still the richest today. To conduct the study, the duo – Guglielmo Barone and Sauro Mocetti – were able to digitize data from 1427....

Once he joined the Premier League team for a fee of £5 million in 2006, Walcott went on to become England’s youngest ever senior football player aged 17 years and 75 days. Thanks to his swift ball crossing, Walcott caught the attention of his manager Arsène Wenger who let him play as a wing before finally granting him the position of a striker in 2012. When it comes to his international career, Theo Walcott has joined the crew of the England national team representing the country at the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2012....

SpaceX Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002. The company has made a name for itself by delivering satellites into space and supplies to the International Space Station. SpaceX’s primary mission is to get people to Mars. Its secondary mission is to bring down the cost of spaceflight through the use of reusable rockets. Up until SpaceX, rockets were discarded after a single launch. Over the years, SpaceX has had two rockets explode....

If the name Tom Shadyac doesn’t ring any bells, allow me to give a bit of back story. Tom was born in Falls Church, Virginia, on December 11, 1958. He attended the University of Virginia, where he was pre-law. In 1983, at the age of 24, Tom moved to Hollywood because he landed a job as a staff joke writer for Bob Hope. Throughout the 80s, Tom slowly tried to make his way in Hollywood without achieving modest success as a writer and director of movies-of-the-week for Fox....

In the case of Portland’s Trevor Ariza, he’s skipping the shortened NBA season to spend time with his 12-year-old son. The Blazers’ forward has been involved in a custody case over his son. The boy’s mother granted a court-ordered, one-month visitation period – occurring when the league planned to resume its season. Ariza, 34, will lose at least $1 million for not playing in the restart. The NBA’s plan is to finish this year’s season in a “bubble” in Orlando....

Usher is being sued for $20 million by an unnamed woman who alleges she contracted herpes following two sexual encounters with the singer earlier this year. New York Marine’s point of view is that Usher’s insurance policy with the company does not include coverage for STDs, explicitly excluding from coverage any “bodily injury… arising out of the transmission of any communicable diseases by [Usher].” According to the insurance company’s interpretation of the policy, that includes civil damages, and even though the company says it will continue to pay for Usher’s legal defense in the case, they will also expect those legal expenses to be refunded should the court also interpret the agreement in the same way....

“Pandemic insurance” isn’t something you hear much about in TV commercials or sales pitches, but a tweet from sports business expert Darren Rovell reveals that it’s been around for quite a while. The people behind Wimbledon, for example, have been paying for it for the last 17 years, at a premium of about $2 million per year. That’s a total of $34 million, which means that since what used to seem unlikely is now reality, they’re turning a tidy profit by finally cashing in on the policy....