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Ernest Gallo Biography

vinterDied: March 6, 2007 (Modesto, California) Best Known as: vintner With little more than a high-school education, Gallo created one of the world's…

Kathy Ireland

Kathy Ireland appeared in 11 straight Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues from 1984-1994. Her green eyes, angular jaw and athletic curves made her one of magazine's most popular models of that era. (…

Paul Klebnikov 2004 Deaths

Paul KlebnikovAge: 41 editor of Forbes Russia and an investigative journalist who has written about politics, business, and corruption in Russia. He was shot as he was leaving his office in…

Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett is the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and is one of the world's wealthiest men. Buffett is known as "the Sage of Omaha" for his remarkable savvy in stock market investments and…

Boone, Daniel

(Encyclopedia) Boone, Daniel, 1734–1820, American frontiersman, b. Oley (now Exeter) township, near Reading, Pa. The Boones, English Quakers, left Pennsylvania in 1750 and settled (1751 or 1752) in…

James Sorenson Biography

entrepeneurDied: January 20, 2008 (Salt Lake City, Utah) Best Known as: Utah's wealthiest man who overcame a learning disability James Sorenson…

Robert L. Johnson

Robert L. Johnson founded and was the first CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET). In 2001 he was named by Forbes magazine as the world's first Black billionaire. Robert Johnson grew up in…

John Nash

Name at birth: John Forbes Nash, Jr.John Nash was the Princeton mathematician whose work on game theory won him the Nobel Prize, and whose life experience with schizophrenia was depicted in the 2001…

2004 World History

Viktor Yushchenko (1954– )   2004 Former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow pleads guilty to defrauding Enron (Jan. 13). Bush proposes ambitious space program that includes flights to the Moon, Mars…