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5 unusual facts about FORTUNE


Crooked Fingers

In October 2008, the band released a new album, Forfeit/Fortune.

James O. Goldsborough

He is author of numerous articles on foreign affairs for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Fortune, and the Reader's Digest.

Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters

Its story is detailed in the instruction booklet: Palutena has a nightmare, which a soothsayer interprets as a foreshadowing of an invasion by the demon Orcos and his minions.

Mother Shipton's Cave

Nearby is a petrifying well which has been a tourist attraction since 1630 due to its association with the legendary soothsayer and prophetess Mother Shipton (c. 1488 - 1561), born Ursula Southeil, wife of Toby Shipton.

Nariman Behravesh

He is cited frequently in leading business publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, Business Week, Newsweek, Fortune, Forbes and U.S. News and World Report.


Abigail Bush

In 1849 or 1850, Henry Bush, stung by years of business losses, headed west to seek his fortune in the California Gold Rush, and by the early 1850s, Abigail Bush joined him with their children.

Albert, Duke in Prussia

A member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, Albert's election as Grand Master had brought about hopes of a reversal of the declining fortune of the Teutonic Knights.

America First Committee

The AFC was established on September 4, 1940, by Yale Law School student R. Douglas Stuart, Jr. (heir to the Quaker Oats fortune), along with other students, including future President Gerald Ford, future Peace Corps director Sargent Shriver, and future U.S. Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart.

Anna Fortune

While the JSA All-Stars were struggling in a battle against the King of Tears, a powerful beast summoned by Johnny Sorrow, Anna Fortune instantly appeared in the scene after leaving her boyfriend "Wildcat" at home and took out a gauntlet and trapped the King of Tears in it.

Anshe Chung

She counts several Fortune 100 companies among her clients as well as high profile organizations such as the government of Baden-Wuerttemberg and LifeChurch.tv, whose Second Life entry her firm developed.

Babi ngepet

The association of boar or pig with magic concerning fortune probably originated from Javanese pre-Islamic and pre-Hindu-Buddhist beliefs that associate the boar or pig with domestic richness, fortune and prosperity, similar to its connections with ancient Javanese piggy bank.

Bank of Hollywood

The original British version of the show under the name Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway hosted by Richard Madeley was aired on ITV from January 2, 2007 until February 13, 2007.

Bernhard Baron

Despite these activities, his fortune, on his death at Brighton, amounted to £5 millions.

Bravo November

One round ricocheted and hit Fortune's helmet at the attaching point for the Night Vision Goggles (NVG's) and smashed the visor.

Business Journalist of the Year Awards

The Editors' Committee comprises Martin Dickson, Deputy Editor of the Financial Times; Robert Peston, Business Editor at the BBC; Hugo Dixon, Editor-in-Chief and Chairman of breakingviews; Jesse Lewis, Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe; and Rik Kirkland, former Managing Editor of Fortune.

Chuck Feeney

Feeney cooperated in the publication of a biography about him by Conor O'Clery, The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune Without Anyone Knowing (ISBN 978-1-58648-391-3).

Close City, Texas

In the early 1890s, Post developed a popular caffeine-free coffee substitute called Postum and later made a fortune on breakfast cereals such as Grape Nuts and Post Toasties.

Cures for Broken Hearts

Released on 28 August 2000 by Fortune and Glory Records of Mosely, England, Cures For Broken Hearts's lo-fi recordings were mastered at Abbey Road studios by Adam Nunn in June 2000.

Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood

On the death of the childless Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, Edward inherited the Lascelles family fortune made in the West Indies through customs positions and slave trade.

Fortune Lounge Group

Fortune Lounge was one of the first online casino groups to host its players at land-based sporting and lifestyle events around the world, taking in the Monaco Grand Prix, the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Las Vegas and the Bahamas.

Fortune teller machine

In "The Honking", an episode of the animated TV series Futurama, the main characters, wishing to learn about a curse that has afflicted Bender, consult with a fortune teller machine, which, like many of the other machines of the 31st Century is sentient.

George Francis Willis

He sold his firm in 1922 but then made another fortune with Zonite, an antiseptic preparation based on Dakin's Solution, widely used in World War I.

George Morton Pitt

Pitt resigned as governor in 1735 with a considerable fortune, purchased what later became known as Orleans House Twickenham from the estate of James Johnston who died in 1737 and bought in January 1740 burgages and freeholds from Sir William Lowther which with Lord Galway's interest gave complete control of the Pontefract seat.

George Vari

Vari made his fortune in international real estate development, building Paris' Tour Montparnasse, six of the pavilions at Expo 1967 in Montreal, and Moscow's Hotel Cosmos.

Giovanni Volpi

He inherited a fortune, at the age of 24, from his father, Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, a politician financier and founder of the renowned Venice Film Festival.

Greene's Tu Quoque

Bubble enjoys the reverse fortune, coming into money – yet he remains true to his master, the gentlemanly Staines, mourning the man's decline and urging him to repair his fortunes...by robbery ("if we be taken, we'll hang together at Tyburn").

Henry Stephen Kemble

He was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge, which he quit after two years' residence to try his fortune on the stage, travelling with his father.

Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch

While attempting to lift the siege of Soubise his force was surprised by a French force led by Owain Lawgoch, a Welsh soldier of fortune in the French service.

Joseph Corbett, Jr.

(October 25, 1928 – August 24, 2009) a former Fulbright scholar, became the 127th fugitive named on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, placed there March 30, 1960 for the kidnap and subsequent murder of Adolph Coors III, heir to the Coors Beer fortune.

Le mari de la reine

Rejected and disheartened, Florestan goes to seek his fortune in 'Kokistan', supposedly on a mission for Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.

Liefmann Calmer

Calmer first moved to The Hague, and later left Holland for France, where he made a fortune in commerce and became official purveyor to King Louis XV.

Lord Emp

Spartan did as asked, and inherited Marlowe's fortune, his company, and even his alias, later moving Halo's headquarter's from New York to Los Angeles.

Meno

Coincidentally Anytus appears, whom Socrates praises as the son of Anthemion, who earned his fortune with intelligence and hard work.

MV Kerlogue

The British Naval Attaché in Dublin reported to the Director of Naval Intelligence that it was "unfortunate from a British point of view" that Fortune had been involved in the Kerlogue incident as he was "always ready to pass on any information in his possession".

Nevada City, Montana

Over the years 14 original structures were preserved and remain in Nevada City, the majority of the buildings present today, were moved into the Nevada City Street plan by Charlie Bovey, of Bovey Restorations, the heir to the General Mills fortune (Blumenthal 2).

Now I Can Die in Peace

Booklist starred its review and said Simmons' tone was a "refreshing, funny take on Boston's reversal of fortune."

Oldfield Thomas

In 1891 Thomas married Mary Kane, daughter of Sir Andrew Clark, heiress to a small fortune, which gave him the finances to hire mammal collectors and present their specimens to the museum.

One Penn Plaza

Cisco Systems, a Fortune 500 IT networking and telephony company, occupies the 9th floor.

Palmy Days

Palmy Days (1931) is an American musical comedy film written by Eddie Cantor, Morrie Ryskind, and David Freedman, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, and choreographed by Busby Berkeley (who makes a cameo appearance as a fortune teller).

Park Forest, Illinois

In 1956, William Whyte, an editor at Fortune magazine, published a book called The Organization Man that defined the nature of corporate life for a generation.

Park-McCullough Historic House

The house was built in 1864-65 by attorney and entrepreneur Trenor W. Park (1823-1882), who was born in nearby Woodford, Vermont but amassed his fortune overseeing the mining interests of John C. Fremont in California.

Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made

Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made is the first studio album by the Los Angeles band Fol Chen.

Radcliffe Square

The square is named after John Radcliffe, a student of the university who became doctor to the King, made a large fortune, and left a significant legacy to the University and his college (University College), which is nearby in the High Street to the south.

Rothschild

The most notable family with this surname are the Jewish descendants of Mayer Amschel Rothschild who formed a European financial dynasty that was during the 19th, 20th and 21st century, perhaps the wealthiest family by the scale of their private fortune in modern history.

The Fortune of Christina McNab

The Fortune of Christina McNab is a 1921 British silent comedy film directed by W.P. Kellino and starring Nora Swinburne, David Hawthorne and Francis Lister.

The Gospel of Wealth

Even bequeathing one's fortune to charity was no guarantee that it would be used wisely, due to the fact that there was no guarantee that a charitable organization not under one's direction would use the money in accordance with one's wishes.

Things Fall Apart

He shows multiple hamartia, including hubris (pride) and ate (rashness), and these character traits do lead to his peripeteia, or reversal of fortune, and to his downfall at the end of the novel.

Thomas Gustave Plant

Plant used his fortune to build Lucknow, an estate on a mountain overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, where he lived with his second wife.

Trevor Baines

John Trevor Roche Baines (born 19 December 1939), is a British former businessman and tycoon, who claimed to have amassed an estimated fortune of over £130 million, through banking, financial trading, and investment in the Miss World competition.

Wade Miquelon

Wade Miquelon (born October 28, 1964) Is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Walgreen Co., a Chicago-based Fortune 50 company and the largest drugstore in the U.S., with $72B in annual sales across more than 7,900 retail stores and outlets.

Whitworth Hall, County Durham

John was the father of Robert Shafto, better known as Bobby Shaftoe, who vastly increased the family fortune by his marriage in 1774 to Anne Duncombe of Duncombe Park.

William W. Cook

He practiced law for many years in Manhattan, primarily for the Mackay telegraph and cable companies, and amassed a substantial fortune.

Willoughby Weiss

In 1854 he set Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Village Blacksmith" to music, from which he made a considerable fortune.


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