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In 1994, [8] [9] [10] David and Barbara Mikkelson created an urban folklore web site that would become Snopes.com. Snopes was an early online encyclopedia focused on urban legends, which mainly presented search results of user discussions based at first on their contributions to the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban (AFU) where they'd been active. [11]
July 29, 1986 (age 38) Oakland, California, [1] U.S. Occupations. CEO of Snopes. CEO of TV Tropes. Chris Richmond (born July 29, 1986) is an American businessman and entrepreneur. [2] He founded a television streaming site called ShareTV.com, co-founded an adtech platform called Proper Media and acquired websites such as TV Tropes, Snopes, and ...
t. e. Keith Rupert Murdoch AC KCSG (/ ˈmɜːrdɒk / MUR-dok; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American business magnate, investor, and media proprietor. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including in the UK (The Sun and The ...
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist and pilot. [2] He was best known during his lifetime as one of the richest and most influential people in the world. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important ...
Website. web.randi.org. Signature. James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician, author, and scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. [ 1 ] He was the co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), and founder ...
In July of 2019, Snopes noted that Harris made errors in some of the vital dates he provided for births and deaths of his grandparents. [24] The following year, PolitiFact stopped short of Snopes's unproven rating, and again reviewed the validity of the scandal, saying about the Stanford professor emeritus's claim that he is the descendant of ...
Jimmy John Liautaud. James John Liautaud (born January 12, 1964) is an American restaurateur, who is widely known as the founder and former chairman of Jimmy John's sandwich chain. [1] In October 2018, Liautaud was included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people. In 2018, Forbes estimated Liautaud's documented wealth at $1.7 billion.
Brown died on 18 September 1843 and is buried in the Protestant graveyard of St Mark's Anglican Church in Brown's Town, Jamaica. [5] [9]In 2018, Kamala Harris' father, economist Donald J. Harris, wrote in Reflections of a Jamaican Father, that his paternal grandmother was Christiana Brown, a descendant of "plantation and slave owner Hamilton Brown."