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3 unusual facts about mogul


Singahi Bhiraura

In 993 Hijra (1585 A.D.) The Mogul Sarkar of Khairabad, in the Subah of Oudh received an ulām (message) from the administrator of Luxmipur (Lakhimpur).

Verdi-Mogul, Nevada

The area is on the western border of Nevada, adjacent to the California state line at the 120th meridian west.

Verdi was named after Giuseppe Verdi by Charles Crocker, founder of the Central Pacific Railroad, pulling a slip of paper from a hat and reading the name of the Italian opera composer.


Ali Sabancı

He is married to his schoolmate from university years, Vuslat Doğan Sabancı, daughter of media mogul Aydın Doğan and vice president of Newspaper Hürriyet.

Amir Dossal

One of Dossal’s many responsibilities was as the UN's Representative for the partnership with media mogul Ted Turner's $1 billion donation, through the UN Foundation, supporting over 450 programmes and projects for women and children’s health, population, climate change, and biodiversity.

Anna Torv

Her paternal aunt is writer Anna Murdoch Mann, who was married for 31 years to billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

Baliuag Museum and Library

Antonio Cabangon Chua, Baliuag business mogul also graced the turnover.

Barry Avrich

Avrich's film career has included critically acclaimed films about the entertainment business including The Last Mogul about film producer Lew Wasserman (2005), Glitter Palace about the Motion Picture Country Home (2005), and Guilty Pleasure about the Vanity Fair columnist and author Dominick Dunne (2004).

Ben Scotti

He is the brother of media mogul Tony Scotti, with whom he co-produced a few television programs, most notably the lifeguard drama Baywatch, and also co-founded the Scotti Bros. record label which released music by artists such as Survivor and "Weird Al" Yankovic until the label was dissolved in the mid-1990s.

Brian Despain

His art appears on multiple young-adult fiction book covers, including, "Arthur and the Minimoys", written by French film mogul Luc Besson and "The Clockwork Three" by Matthew J. Kirby.

Carmen Busquets

Busquets was included in the Fashion’s New Order list alongside Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet and fashion mogul Bernard Arnault.

Children of Rain

At the encouragement of Music City mogul Buddy Killen, producer of R&B immortal Joe Tex and countless country stars, including Dolly Parton, Dottie West and Roger Miller, Pam and Alan Ross moved to Nashville in late August of 1969.

Chuck Collins

He is the great-grandson of 19th-century meatpacking mogul Oscar Mayer and the grandson of the U.S. pianist and composer Edward Joseph Collins, as well as Michael Collins, liberator of Ireland.

Claude Blanchet

He started his financial career as the right arm of financial mogul Robert Campeau, serving in the Ottawa region.

Clay Dreslough

Dreslough's design and programming credits include the Tony La Russa Baseball series, Pennant Fever, Microsoft Baseball, Madden, Baseball Mogul, Baseball Mogul Online, Football Mogul, and MLB Slugfest Loaded.

Derrick Dodd

By 1892, Dodd had become the business manager for William Randolph Hearst's paper the San Francisco Examiner and a great admirer of the leading newspaper mogul.

Drew Correa

Initially struggling with relatively little work as a producer, Correa received his first major label placement, Lil Wayne's "Mr. Carter", featuring American rapper and mogul Jay-Z.

Erotic Review

In mid-2003 Pelling sold Erotic Review to media mogul Felix Dennis, whose company Dennis Publishing controlled titles including Maxim.

Evans Wadongo

His fellow inaugural recipients of this award were Sir Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and Ted Turner, media mogul and founder of CNN.

Foxy Grandpa

In the 1938 film Crashing Hollywood the squirrelly Movie mogul Hugo Wells is called Foxy Frandpa.

George M. Odom

During his career, George Odom operated a public stable whose clients over the years included Robert L. Gerry, Sr., Marshall Field III, and Hollywood film mogul Louis B. Mayer who owned Odom's most famous runner, Busher, a future Hall of Fame filly who was voted 1945 American Horse of the Year honors.

George Norcross III

In April 2012, a group of influential New Jersey business executives headed by Norcross, former New Jersey Nets owner Lewis Katz and cable TV mogul H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest purchased The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com media properties for $55 million.

H. Rex Lee

He was a friend of entertainment mogul Walt Disney, who visited the Lee family and stayed at their home.

High Hollow

When Howe left Mellor, Meigs & Howe in 1928, he sold High Hollow to cigar mogul Samuel Paley (see La Palina) and his artist-philanthropist wife, Goldie Paley.

Hiller OH-23 Raven

With the help of shipping mogul Henry Kaiser, Hiller established the United Helicopters company in 1946.

Homosexuality in English football

Public relations mogul Max Clifford claimed that two major clubs had approached him wishing to portray a "straight" image.

Lord Grade

Lew Grade, Baron Grade (1906-1998), Russian-born English impresario and media mogul

Lord of the Bling

The character Bone Hamilton is based on real life Hip-Hop mogul Suge Knight, with references being made to the incident where he allegedly held Vanilla Ice over a balcony.

Marcus Lemonis

Shortly thereafter, he had a conversation with family friend and auto mogul Lee Iacocca, who suggested Lemonis switch to the camping and RV industry, because there had yet to be a defining trailblazer in that arena.

Marvin Goldhar

Goldhar also played roles in live-action such as Mogul in Mafia Princess, Gareth Williamson in Night Heat, Grandpa Maurice in The Zack Files, Ron Morrow in Hot Money, Detective #1 in A Deadly Business, Larry Sr. in Big Deal, Burt Horowitz in Deadline, Phil King in The Last Polka, Harry in Club Land as well as a guest star on Saturday Night Live.

Origin of the Kingdom of Mysore

According to this theory, when the Hoysala Empire succumbed to the Mogul invasion in 1327 (and the capital Halebidu was sacked), the Hoysala family withdrew to the Tonnur region (modern Tondanur near Melkote in modern Mandya district) and continued to rule from there as petty chieftains under the Vijayanagara Empire.

Pat Bowlen

He shared ownership with Denver-based sports mogul Stan Kroenke and legendary Broncos quarterback John Elway.

Paul Geary

Geary is also co-owner of an authentic Italian restaurant in Boston's North End called TRESCA, along with his partners, hockey star Ray Bourque and real estate mogul Harvey Wilk.

Popworld

Popworld started life in 2000 as a website founded by pop mogul Simon Fuller, and the accompanying show (first transmitted daily at teatime on E4) was originally intended for a much younger audience.

Prajna Bhatta

Prajna Bhatta (16th century) wrote Rajavalipataka that brings Kashmir's history to the time of its incorporation in the dominions of the Mogul emperor Akbar, 1588.

Project Mogul

In 1994-1995, in response to an official inquiry by New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff, the Air Force published a report which advanced the theory that Mogul Flight #4, launched from Alamogordo, New Mexico, on June 4, 1947, was what crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, and formed the source of the debris which sparked the Roswell UFO Incident.

Project Mogul was conceived by Dr. Maurice Ewing who had earlier researched the deep sound channel in the oceans and theorized that a similar sound channel existed in the upper atmosphere: a certain height where the air pressure and temperature result in minimal speed of sound, so that sound waves would propagate and stay in that channel due to refraction.

Robert Durst

Robert Alan Durst (born 1943) is a son of New York real estate mogul Seymour Durst, and brother of commercial developer Douglas Durst.

Robert Rietti

Hollywood mogul David O. Selznick, having seen the boy perform, tried to sign him to an extended contract with his studio but, being so young, strict schooling laws of the time forced him to decline the offer.

Samuel Di Carmine

On 1 July 2008 English Championship side Queens Park Rangers, owned by Italian Formula One mogul and businessman Flavio Briatore, signed Di Carmine on loan for the 2008–2009 season.

Sportsvision

Sportsvision was a subscription TV service founded by Chicago White Sox owners Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn, and media mogul Fred Eychaner.

Stephens Bros. Boat Builders

In 1960, the brothers sold the company to the Wrather Corporation, headed by entertainment industry mogul and Stephens Bros. boat collector, Jack Wrather, and the company name was changed to Stephens Marine, Inc.

Stinson Aircraft Company

Automobile mogul Errett Lobban (E.L.) Cord acquired 60 percent of Stinson's stock in September 1929, and his Cord Corporation provided additional investment capital to permit Stinson to sell its aircraft at a competitive price while still pursuing new designs.

Suki Potier

In the 1970s, Suki married a Hong Kong businessman named Robert Ho, the eldest son of casino mogul Stanley Ho and wife Clementina Leitao Ho, with whom she had two daughters, Faye and Sarah.

Telman Ismailov

Ismailov is the most controversial and extravagant mogul famous for having spent millions of dollars on singers like Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Tom Jones, and others.

The Marrying Man

There has been speculation that Neil Simon based the character of Vicki on singer Marie McDonald, a '50s performer nicknamed "The Body" who was married to shoe mogul Harry Karl more than once and also reportedly the mistress of Bugsy Siegel.

WPYX

WPYX and WTRY went through several ownership changes which includes Scott Broadcasting of Pennsylvania, television personality Merv Griffin and Capstar Broadcasting (which was controlled by billionaire mogul Tom Hicks).

WRBJ-FM

Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton have long taken a stand against, and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons began to stand up against it as well, calling on people to accept "social responsibility." Inspired by the move, Roberts Broadcasting, after much reviewing of playlists for content, decided to create a policy to ban the station from playing music that glorifies violence and degrades women as of April 2007.

You Only Loved Me Twice

You Only Loved Me Twice is a crime drama short film directed by award winning director Ryan Pickett, which along with a business proposal helped him become a top 5 finalist in the showcase event in the USA for Global Entrepreneurship Week film entrepreneurship competition The Race to BE hosted by media mogul Russell Simmons at Sony Picture Studios in Los Angeles.


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