He eventually lost control of the company, along with rights to the Famous Amos name. In one of his eight books, "Man With No Name: Turn Lemons Into Lemonade," Amos explained how he lost Famous Amos even before it was sold for $63 million to a Taiwanese company in 1991. Despite robus...
said camera press, the photo agency with which he worked. one of the country's most famous photographers, snowdon was among the few top-echelon royals to hold down an outside job after he married the queen's sister in 1960, and his professional reputation grew steadily. william christopher ...
Famous for his notorious "bunga bunga" parties, the 86-year-old senator and leader of the Forza Italia party had faced a string of financial and sex scandals which made him the most polarising figure in modern Italy. The sex parties, which involved prostitutes, caused a maj...
If I were doing a Hasidic rabbi, I'd have him speak with an Irish accent. … You take it out of reality and make it cartoon-esque without being denigrating. Because people today are so sensitive, it's the only way of creating humor without offending someone."...
Enrico Fermi prize. In 1967, she broke her hip and suffered many small strokes. Though she was able to partially recover, Meitner was so weak that she moved into a nursing home in Cambridge. Her family thought she took weak to notify her of the deaths of Otto Hahn and his wife, in ...
In the Carolinas alone, Hugo destroyed or damaged more than 100,000 homes and killed at least 19 people. #18. Hurricane Charley Andrea Booher FEMA // Wikimedia Commons #18. Hurricane Charley - Total cost (inflation-adjusted): $22.6 billion- Total deaths: 35- Begin date: Aug. 13, 2004-...
Everton FC was the first football team to play in the Anfield stadium that is famous today as Liverpool FC’s historic home. A dispute between Everton and the site’s owner, John Houlding, resulted in Everton moving to Goodison Park and Houlding forming a new team that was eventually named...
Gandhi, however, sent troops to storm the temple, which resulted in the deaths of many militants. In retaliation, Gandhi's bodyguards, who were Sikhs, shot and killed the prime minister in her own home. Just hours after the shootings, Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as his mother's replacement...
The self-proclaimed “King of Hay”—the king, that is, of the famous Welsh “town of books” properly known as Hay-on-Wye—died in August at the age of 80. AsThe Guardianexplains: Today Hay-on-Wye, a pretty but otherwise unremarkable border town, thrives thanks to the remarkable lega...
chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises. While most famous for Playboy, the businessman dabbled in all forms of media, including hosting his own TV shows, beginning withPlayboy’s Penthousein the late1950sand early '60s. Shot in his hometown of Chicago and syndicated, the show featured...