* Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon. com ; his maternal ancestors were settlers from Greece who lived in Texas.

In 2009 the The Van Horn Advocate announced that the Long Now Foundation was starting geologic testing for an underground space to house a 10, 000 Year Clock of the Long Now, on the Bezos ranch, north of Van Horn.

Bezos was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen and Ted Jorgensen.

Although the company was formally incorporated in 2000, its existence only became public in 2003, when Bezos started buying land in Texas and interested parties followed up on the purchases.

In an interview with television show host Charlie Rose on November 19, 2007, Bezos reported that the construction of a second test vehicle was in progress and that a third development vehicle would be built after that, before any commercial flights would begin.

It is worth noting that both Spyros Papadopoulos and Yannis Bezos are widely considered to be among the finest Greek actors of their generation, Dimitra Papadopoulou is one of the most successful female comedians and script writers, and the intro theme was composed / sampled by renowned electronica musician Nikko Patrelakis.

OpenSearch was developed by Amazon. com subsidiary A9 and the first version, OpenSearch 1. 0, was unveiled by Jeff Bezos at the O ' Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in March, 2005.

* 1995: Jeff Bezos launches Amazon. com and the first commercial-free 24 hour, internet-only radio stations, Radio HK and NetRadio start broadcasting.

A writer in Seattle, researching an article on Jeff Bezos, the founder of the then-fledgling Amazon. com, came across the " Hapworth " publication date, told his sister, a journalist for the Washington Business Journal, who wrote an article about the upcoming book.

He has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company ( funded by Jeff Bezos ) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system, and is also a cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad.

In late 2006, the Wall Street Journal reported that Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of amazon. com, had acquired of land north of Van Horn to house his fledgling space tourism company, Blue Origin.

however, Blue Origin and Bezos " have been very secretive about " the plans for the Van Horn facility for the past five years, having granted no interviews with news media since a single interview with the Van Horn Advocate in early 2005.

Jeffrey Preston " Jeff " Bezos (; born January 12, 1964 ) is an American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon. com, Inc., an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products.

The first full-scale clock's manufacture and site construction is being funded by Jeff Bezos, who has donated $ 42 million, and is located on his Texas land.

The site is on property owned by Amazon. com founder Jeff Bezos, who is also funding its construction.

For instance, Amazon. com founder Jeff Bezos and top Amazon executives usually worked on doors set on trestles, as a visible example of a frugal company culture.

The protest ended with O ' Reilly and Amazon. com founder Jeff Bezos visiting Washington D. C. to lobby for patent reform.

His maternal grandfather joined the Army at 14 and was a mounted messenger for George Washington.

Antoninus ’ father and paternal grandfather died when he was young and he was raised by Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of Pliny the Younger.

After this deed he fled to Talmai, the king of Geshur () ( see also or ), his maternal grandfather, and it was not until three years later that he was fully reinstated in his father's favour and finally returned to Jerusalem.

With her siblings, Agrippina was raised in Rome by her maternal grandfather and maternal step-grandmother Livia Drusilla.

* Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 16 BC ), only child of the above Gnaeus Domitius and Aemilia Lepida, paternal grandfather of the Emperor Nero, maternal grandfather of Valeria Messalina ( third wife of the emperor Claudius )

Her family hailed from Arkansas, where her great-grandparents and her maternal grandfather, Henry Eliot, were born into slavery.

Her maternal grandmother was the Italian-born fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and her maternal grandfather was Count Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor, a Theosophist and psychic medium.

Mather was named after his maternal grandfather, John Cotton.

Paul's prescience helps him determine the identity of Jessica's father, the " maternal grandfather who cannot be named " — the Baron himself.

His maternal grandfather was Alberto de Acha, one of the three founders of Bacardi Rum.

However, his relatives were not major court officials ; documents show that El Cid's paternal grandfather, Lain, confirmed only five documents of Ferdinand I's, his maternal grandfather, Rodrigo Alvarez, certified only two of Sancho II's, and El Cid's own father confirmed only one.

Originally under the guardianship of his maternal grandfather Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, he displaced Imperial Prince Koretaka ( 惟喬親王 ) as Crown Prince.

While his paternal family had become prosperous early on in New York real estate and trade, much of his family's wealth had been built by FDR's maternal grandfather, Warren Delano, in the China trade, including opium and tea.

Because consorts of crown princes, younger sons, and emperors were generally Fujiwara women, the male heads of the Fujiwara house were often the father-in-law, brother-in-law, uncle, or maternal grandfather of the emperor.

His maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Derry in northern Ireland and his maternal grandmother was of German ancestry.

Germanicus was the grandson-in-law and great-nephew of the Emperor Augustus, nephew and adoptive son of the Emperor Tiberius, father of the Emperor Caligula, brother of the Emperor Claudius, and the maternal grandfather of the Emperor Nero.

Through Agrippina the Younger, Germanicus was maternal grandfather of the Emperor Nero.

His maternal grandfather was Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia.

Hawk's maternal grandfather, C. W. Howard ( 1845 – 1916 ), had homesteaded in Neenah, Wisconsin in 1862 at age 17 and within 15 years had earned a fortune in the town's paper mill and other industrial endeavors.

Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

It was a fine broody hen, white, with a maternal eye and a striking abundance of feathers in the under region of the abdomen.

J. J. Bachofen advocated that Athena was originally a maternal figure stable in her security and poise but was caught up and perverted by a patriarchal society ; this was especially the case in Athens.

Born into an old, wealthy equestrian branch of the Plebeian Octavii family, Augustus was adopted posthumously by his maternal great-uncle Gaius Julius Caesar in 44 BC following Caesar's assassination.

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

She was the second granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law, stepdaughter and daughter-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, mother of the Emperor Caligula, maternal second cousin and sister-in-law of the Emperor Claudius and the maternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero.

Antonia Minor was the second daughter born to Octavia Minor and triumvir Mark Antony, hence Antonia ’ s maternal uncle was Augustus.

Apart from being the late maternal grandmother of Nero, she was the late paternal grandmother of Princess Julia Drusilla, the child of Caligula.

In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.

In the months leading up to her marriage to Claudius, Agrippina's maternal second cousin, the praetor Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus, was betrothed to Claudius ’ daughter Claudia Octavia.

Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus in 50 was adopted by his great maternal uncle and stepfather.

Some modern historians theorize that Nero's decision to kill Agrippina was prompted by her plotting to set Gaius Rubellius Plautus ( Nero's maternal second cousin ) or Britannicus ( Claudius ' biological son ) on the throne.

His mother Julia Avita Mamaea was the second daughter of Julia Maesa and Syrian noble Julius Avitus and maternal aunt of Emperor Elagabalus.