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2 unusual facts about Millionaire


Millionaire

Millionaire is also a common nickname of the international quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, first hosted in the UK by Chris Tarrant, and later in the U.S. by Regis Philbin and Meredith Vieira.

Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?

In 2002 TV Guide ranked it number 25 on its TV Guide's 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time list.


AJ Faigin

Allen asked him to immediately fly to Toronto for a midnight meeting with USFL money-men at the home of multi-millionaire and league creative guru John Bassett.

Andrew Freedman Home

During the Panic of 1907, Andrew Freedman, a self-made millionaire, came to the realization that he almost lost his entire fortune.

Ayer's Cliff, Quebec

In the 1930s, the well-known American multi-millionaire sportsman Foxhall P. Keene maintained a seasonal residence at Ayer's Cliff, where he died in 1941.

Azharuddin

Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, (born 1998), Indian child actor in the film Slumdog Millionaire

Baron Revelstoke

Married Maude Lorillard of New York, daughter of the tobacco millionaire, Pierre Lorillard IV.

Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club

Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club is a 2006 film and the direct-to-video sequel starring The Game and Shari Headley, directed by Cess Silvera.

Christian Kautz

Son of a Swiss multi-millionaire, his career started with Mercedes-Benz as a junior driver in 1936, then as an Auto Union junior driver in 1938, starting in three Grands Prix.

Coins of Lundy

In 1969 Jack Hayward, a British millionaire, purchased the island for £150,000 and gave it to the British people.

Dave Jenks

In 2003, with the release of The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, co-authored by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan, Jenks became a best-selling author when the book spent time on BusinessWeek's best-seller list.

Dead Mine

Warren Price (Les Loveday), the son of a millionaire, with his partner, Japan scientists Rie (Miki Mizuno), Price's girlfriend Su-Ling (Carmen Soo) is on a mission to explore a bunker military relics of Japan's army on the island of Una-Una, Gulf of Tomini, Sulawesi.

Ersel Hickey

Hickey also wrote songs for other artists, including "The Millionaire" for Jackie Wilson, "A Little Bird Told Me So" for LaVern Baker, and "Don't Let the Rain Come Down", which was a US top ten hit for the Serendipity Singers.

Fear Is the Key

The protagonist, Talbot, was played by Barry Newman, and the millionaire's daughter Sarah Ruthven by Suzy Kendall.

Fels

Joseph Fels (1853–1914), American soap manufacturer, millionaire, and philanthropist

Helmut Reichmann

Professor Dr. Helmut Reichmann (* 1941; † March 10, 1992) was a German glider pilot, thrice Gliding World Champion and co-founder, with millionaire Barron Hilton, of the Barron Hilton Cup.

Hermann V. von Holst

In the period 1904-1906, von Holst created summer countryside estate architecture in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for socially prominent and wealthy clients, including Pittsburgh glassmaking millionaire George A. Macbeth and International Harvester partner John Glessner, whose Chicago Glessner House was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.

History of Christianity in Mizoram

A British millionaire Robert Arthington had a strong premillennialist view that the sooner Christianity is spread in the world, the sooner would be the Second Coming of Jesus.

Hot seat

Millionaire Hot Seat, the 2009 relaunch of the Australian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

Indian Agricultural Research Institute

Phipps was a family friend of Lady Curzon, who was the daughter of American millionaire and wife of Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India.

Jay Papasan

Papasan became a bestselling author in 2003 with the release of The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, coauthored by Gary W. Keller and Dave Jenks.

KF Tirana Presidents

The most successful president in history is considered to be the Egyptian millionaire Metwally El Sayed who was president of the club during the period 1999-2004.

Leanza Cornett

She has also served as a host for several television shows, including Entertainment Tonight (1994–1995), New Attitudes (1998), and Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? (2000), and made television guest appearances in television series such as Melrose Place, The Tick, and Fear Factor.

Mark Victor Hansen

In 2005 he co-wrote, along with Robert Allen, the book "Cracking the Millionaire Code" in which he highlights several self-made millionaires such as Bob Circosta, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Alexander Graham Bell, Oprah Winfrey, and others, using them as examples of how to build wealth.

Matching funds

For example, Dr. Booker T. Washington, a famous African-American educator, had a long-time friendship with millionaire industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers who provided him with substantial amounts of money to be applied for the betterment and education of black Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Millionaire Playboy

Park Avenue Logger, also known as Millionaire Playboy, a 1937 American film directed by David Howard

Naftali Bennett

The company was sold in 2005 to RSA Security for $145,000,000, making Bennett a multi-millionaire in the process.

Nellie Walker

In 1902, reclusive Colorado Springs millionaire W. S. Stratton died and someone there realized that Walker was in town and asked her to make a death mask, which she did.

On the Up

Tony Carpenter is a self-made millionaire who turned his South London minicab firm into a successful chauffeur-driven car service.

Origaudio

OrigAudio was featured on the second season of ABC's show Shark Tank where they were offered an investment from millionaire Robert Herjavec.

Philip Woodfield

Woodfield and Steele also represented the British Government at that meeting, along with William Whitelaw, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and Paul Channon, a millionaire Guinness heir and minister of state at the Northern Ireland Office; the IRA was again represented by Adams and Ó Conaill, along with Seán MacStiofáin, the leader of the delegation, Séamus Twomey, Martin McGuinness, Ivor Bell, and Myles Shevlin, a solicitor.

Phule's Company

The book follows the comedic events as Willard J. Phule, the rich son of a millionaire arms manufacturer, reforms a group of misfits in the Space Legion, a fictional organization similar to the French Foreign Legion, into an "elite fighting force".

Pierce, Butler and Pierce Manufacturing Company

William K. Pierce, 64, "formerly a millionaire," committed suicide by shooting himself through the head on April 5, 1915, in Washington, D.C., at the home of Major Charles P. Lynch, his brother-in-law, after the Syracuse manufacturing company "had lost a fortune in few years."

Robert Seaman

Robert Livingston Seaman (1822 – March 11, 1904) was an American millionaire industrialist who was the husband of investigative journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran (better known as Nellie Bly), whom he married in 1895 in Chicago.

Rolando Masferrer

In December, 1960, the Miami Herald, reported that Masferrer was leading a small group of fifty three people who were polishing their killing skills at a ranch owned by multi-millionaire Howard Hughes.

Rowan Alexander

Following Gretna's take over by multi-millionaire Brooks Mileson, Alexander steered the club to the Scottish Third Division title in 2005 with a record-breaking 98 points.

Samuel McIntire

The chair was one of a set of eight chairs originally purchased by Elias Hasket Derby, Salem's wealthiest merchant and thought to be America's first millionaire, and his wife, Elizabeth Crowninshield.

Sarah Webb Gosling

She married multi-millionaire Adam Gosling, a son of the former car park tycoon Sir Donald Gosling in 2009.

Simon Murphy

Simon J. Murphy, Sr. (1820–1910), millionaire lumberman in Maine, Detroit, and Humboldt County in Northern California

Steve Knight

Steven Knight (born 1959), British writer and co-creator of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

Stonor Park

In 1989, it was used as the home of millionaire Victor Hazell (Robbie Coltrane) in the film version of the Roald Dahl book Danny, the Champion of the World.

Susquehanna Boom

Men like James H. Perkins, Peter Herdic, and Mahlon Fisher became millionaires while many of the men who actually worked in the river struggled to survive on the wages paid to them by the lumber barons.

The Affairs of Susan

The next beau is Mike Ward (Don DeFore), an industrialist Millionaire, whom he met when making a deal with the producer.

The Gigli Concert

The Gigli Concert deals with seven days in the relationship between Dynamatologist JPW King, a quack self-help therapist living in Dublin but born and brought up in England, and the mysterious Irishman, a construction millionaire who asks King to teach him how to sing like the Italian opera singer Beniamino Gigli.

The National Crittenton Foundation

The National Crittenton Foundation's roots are in the social movement created by New York evangelist and millionaire Charles Nelson Crittenton, who founded the Florence Crittenton Night Mission in 1883 in New York City.

Vera-Ellen

Her second husband, from 1954 to their 1966 divorce, was millionaire Victor Rothschild of the Rothschild family.

Victoria Montgomery

The play, a work by Frederic Townsend Martin, showed scenes from a private car, the RMS Olympic, a millionaire's residence on Fifth Avenue, and a Mexican mine with an operative cage.

West Branch Susquehanna River

Men like James H. Perkins, Peter Herdic, and Mahlon Fisher became millionaires while many of the men who actually worked in the river struggled to survive on the wages paid to them by the lumber barons.


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