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Of his fortune ( estimated at $ 7, 000, 000 ) approximately $ 4, 000, 000 was bequeathed for the establishment and maintenance of a free public library and reading-room in the City of New York ; but, as the will was successfully contested by relatives, only about $ 3, 000, 000 of the bequest was applied to its original purpose ; in 1895, the Tilden Trust was combined with the Astor and Lenox libraries to found the New York Public Library, whose building bears his name on its front.
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In 2006, Enya made it to the number three spot in the ranks of wealthy Irish entertainers with an estimated fortune of € 109 million ( i. e., £ 75 million or US $ 165 million ), and number 95 in the Sunday Times Rich List 2006 of the 250 Wealthiest Irish People.
By 1914, Hoover was an extremely wealthy man, with an estimated personal fortune of $ 4m He was once quoted as saying " If a man has not made a million dollars by the time he is forty, he is not worth much ".
In 2007, she was ranked as the 14th richest female celebrity with an estimated fortune of US $ 85 million.
Though initially estimated to be as high as twenty-two million dollars, Yerkes ' fortune ended up being well less than one million dollars thanks to a vast number of debts.
In addition to Numa's commercial failure, a lack of radio play ( his records were removed from the BBC Radio 1 playlist ) and sales drained the fortune ( he estimated £ 4. 5 million ) Numan had amassed in the late 1970s.
He worked hard on little but to increase his personal fortune, which in 1984 was estimated to amount to US $ 5 billion, most of it in Swiss banks ( however, a comparatively small $ 3. 4 million has been found after his ousting ).
He led one of the most enduring dictatorial regimes in Africa and amassed a personal fortune estimated to be over US $ 5 billion by selling his nation's rich natural resources while his nation's people lived in poverty.
Sting was estimated to have a fortune of £ 180 million in the Sunday Times Rich List of 2011, making him one of the 10 richest people in the British music industry.
Rogers amassed a great fortune, estimated at over $ 100 million, and became one of the wealthiest men in the United States.
In 1908 he took his family to Omaha, where his fortune was estimated at $ 20 million.
Rogers amassed a great fortune, estimated at over $ 100 million, and became one of the wealthiest men in the United States.
In March 2010, Forbes magazine estimated his fortune at US $ 23 billion, making him the 11th richest person in the world.
In 2006, Forbes magazine estimated his personal fortune at about USD $ 1. 2 billion.
With an estimated multi-billion dollar fortune, mainly from oil revenues, the Al-Sabahs are known for aiding other royal houses in the region who have little or no natural resources like oil for nothing in return.
Modesty's fortune is estimated at 500, 000 pounds as of 1963.
However, the bulk of Bolan's fortune, variously estimated at between £ 20 and £ 30 million pounds ( approx $ 38 – $ 57 million ), remains in trust.
In 2001 he was reported to have an estimated personal fortune of £ 25 million.
In 2009 The Sunday Times Rich List estimated Noel and Liam's combined personal fortune at £ 52 million.
At the time of his death in 1955, Gulbenkian's fortune was estimated at between US $ 280 million and US $ 840 million.
His personal fortune was estimated as about £ 1. 6 billion.
According to Rimes ' lawyer, her mother hired two accountants to investigate how much was taken from Rimes's fortune, and it was estimated that the men acquired around eight million dollars in royalties.
In May 1999, Time Asia estimated Suharto's family fortune at US $ 15 billion in cash, shares, corporate assets, real estate, jewelry and fine art.
In undertaking his buildings he managed to dissipate his fortune, which was estimated by his contemporaries to give him an income of £ 100, 000 a year.
In 2007, his personal fortune was estimated at $ 230 million.
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Having ( through my unflagging effort and devotion ) achieved stardom, a fortune and a world-renowned wife at an age when most young men are casting their first vote, Letch proceeded to neglect them all.
Perhaps it was his misfortune, or good fortune, whichever way one looked at it, to belong to the former group, and he was struggling unconsciously to build up pressure in a world which demanded none, which was positively antagonistic to it.
We take leave of Pumblechook as he gloats over Pip's loss of fortune, extending his hand `` with a magnificently forgiving air '' and exhibiting `` the same fat five fingers '', one of which he identifies with `` the finger of Providence '' and shakes at Pip in a canting imputation of the latter's `` ingratitoode '' and his own generosity as Pip's `` earliest benefactor ''.
We were told that to the Pathet Lao, a kidnaped American was worth at least $750, a fortune in Laos.
Born to a wealthy family in Paris, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier inherited a large fortune at the age of five with the passing of his mother.
With innate talent, passion, diligence, discipline, self-motivation and tenacity, being the core factors of achieving success to becoming a celebrity, fame and fortune sometimes occurs spontaneously with relatively little effort due to sheer luck, being fortunate with connections, or simply being at the right place during the right time.
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.
The years he spent in Southsea had been the most miserable of his life to that point, but his good fortune at securing a position at Midhurst Grammar School meant that Wells could continue his self-education in earnest.
He later wrote of how he " rejoiced at my good fortune in stumbling upon an object so interesting in the natural history of the earth, and which I had been long looking for in vain.
His parents ( Johann von Wierdt († 1606 ) and Elisabeth Streithoven ) belonged to the numerous class of the lesser nobility, and at an early age he left home to follow the career of a soldier of fortune in the Walloon cavalry of the Spanish service.
After only a year, Leonardo made a list of his misdemeanours, calling him " a thief, a liar, stubborn, and a glutton ", after he had made off with money and valuables on at least five occasions and spent a fortune on clothes.
The elder Domitia Lucilla had inherited a great fortune ( described at length in one of Pliny's letters ) from her maternal grandfather and her paternal grandfather by adoption.
Control of the clan's fortune alternates among the family members, who spend most of their inactive time in cryonic preservation inside Villa Straylight, a labyrinthine mansion located at one end of Freeside, a cylindrical space habitat located at L5, and functioning primarily as a Las Vegas-style space resort for the wealthy.
The clergy had amassed a fortune in land, about one-fifth of all Christendom but at the time, in the 12th and 13th centuries, the Church was following a policy of isolation ; they adopted the rule of celibacy and cut themselves from domestic life ; they refused to plead in a secular court ; they refused to pay taxes to the State on the grounds that they had already paid it to the Pope.
He for whom Zeus the lord of thunder mixes the gifts he sends, will meet now with good and now with evil fortune ; but he to whom Zeus sends none but evil gifts will be pointed at by the finger of scorn, the hand of famine will pursue him to the ends of the world, and he will go up and down the face of the earth, respected neither by gods nor men.
Resolving to seek no knowledge other than that of which could be found in myself or else in the great book of the world, I spent the rest of my youth traveling, visiting courts and armies, mixing with people of diverse temperaments and ranks, gathering various experiences, testing myself in the situations which fortune offered me, and at all times reflecting upon whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it.
' In 1665 he toiled very hard at arduous work, but the outcome was that he quadrupled his fortune.
A woman tying her fortune ( omikuji ) at Kasuga Shrine
Thomas Bowdler was born at Box, near Bath, Somerset, the youngest son of the six children of Thomas Bowdler ( c. 1719 – 1785 ), a banker of substantial fortune, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Cotton ( d. 1797 ), the daughter of Sir John Cotton of Conington, Huntingdonshire.
Through the persuasion of Jeremiah Dummer, Yale, who had made a fortune through trade while living in India as a representative of the East India Company, donated nine bales of goods, which were sold for more than £ 560, a substantial sum at the time.
After this discovery at the mill, the " gold rush " era began and many people came from the east to find fortune.
When no games were being held, the Circus at the time of Catullus ( mid-1st century BC ) was likely " a dusty open space with shops and booths ... a colourful crowded disreputable area " frequented by " prostitutes, jugglers, fortune tellers and low-class performing artists.
After attempts at reconciliation, Natalie divorced Keaton in 1932, taking his entire fortune and refusing to allow any contact between Keaton and his sons, whose last name she had changed to Talmadge.
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