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John Warne Gates (May 18, 1855 – August 9, 1911), also known as "Bet-a-Million" Gates, was an American Gilded Age industrialist and gambler. He was a pioneer promoter of barbed wire . He was born and raised in what is now West Chicago, Illinois .
William Henry Gates II [1] (November 30, 1925 – September 14, 2020), better known as Bill Gates Sr., was an American attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader.He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates (a predecessor of K&L Gates), [2] and also served as president of both the Seattle King County and Washington State Bar associations. [3]
MacKenzie Scott (née Tuttle, formerly Bezos; born April 7, 1970) [1] [2] is an American novelist, philanthropist, and ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.As of June 2024, she has a net worth of US$36.1 billion, owning a 4% stake in Amazon.
In April 2016, the school announced it would be renamed the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing after a $30 million contribution from Rose Marie "Rory" Meyers and her husband Howard Meyers. [10] The donation was the largest gift to an established school of nursing in the history of nursing education.
Gaines was born in Winter Haven, Florida to Jettie Ann and Ambrose "Buddy" Gaines, who met there as water skiers at Cypress Gardens in the 1950s. [3] Gaines tried several sports during his teenage years, but turned to swimming as a Winter Haven High School junior [4] at age 17. [5]
Bremner was born in Edinburgh, the son of Major Donald Stuart Ogilvy Bremner (1907–1979) and his second wife Ann Simpson (1922–2001). [1] He has an older brother and an older half-sister (from his father's first marriage).
Rory reluctantly agrees to run as Paris's vice president for student government and wins. She also writes for the Chilton paper, The Franklin. Rory and Paris join the "Puffs", a secret sorority at Chilton. When she meets Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia), Rory begins to fall in love with him. They become friends first but start to date after Dean ...
Kennedy with his uncle John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office, 1961. Kennedy was born at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., on January 17, 1954. He is the third of eleven children of senator and U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel.