A friend of William the Conqueror during the Norman invasion of Britain, Alan Rufus, who was also known as Alain le Roux or Alan the Red, received some 250,000 acres (1,000 km2) in land grants as a reward from William  for his friendship. His property stretched throughout Yorkshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and London, totaling some £11,000 by the time of his death in 1093. This would make Alan Rufus the wealthiest Briton in all the history of the British Isles. His fortune was estimated to be equivalent to £81.33 billion, or roughly $162.74 billion, in 2007.

Musa I

Musa I, Mansa of Mali, more commonly referred to simply as Mansa Musa, ascended to the throne of the wealthy Mali Empire in 1312. Musa traveled with 60,000 men, in addition to 12,000 slaves, 500 of which marched before the mansa dressed in silken robes and golden staffs. There were 80 camels in the train that are said to have carried anywhere from 50 to 300 pounds each of gold dust. This entire Caravan could be evaluated in terms of today at more than $400 billion.

Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, was the emperor of the Russian Empire from 1894 until the February Revolution of 1917. Around age in 1916 his wealth was valued at up to $881 million, which equals $290 billion in today’s money. He is seen as the wealthiest monarch and head of state in history and further as the wealthiest saint as the Russian Orthodox Church declared him, his wife and his children martyrs after being murdered in 1918 by the Bolsheviks.

Rothschilds

The wealth of the Rothschild family at its height during the mid-19th century has been estimated in today’s terms in the hundreds of billions, or even in the trillions, of dollars.

Somozas

The wealth of the Somoza family who ruled Nicaragua, was the largest in Latin America for decades.

As part of his fortune he owned 55 percent of the nation’s arable land. He had 51 cattle ranches, 46 coffee plantations, extensive real estate in Managua, including luxury villas in United States and The Bahamas, and interests in various business ventures. By the time of his assassination,  Somoza’s wealth was estimated at $400 million.                                                                                       The Somoza fortune grew as other family members succeeded each other in power. In 1978, their wealth was calculated at some $2 billion to $6 billion.

President Nixon received a contribution of a million dollars from Anastasio Somoza Debayle for the Nixon campaign in 1972, according to a Central America foreign minister who traveled to Washington, DC with Somoza’s mother; Salvadora DeBayle de Somoza. She had asked the minister what his country was contributing to the campaign. When the foreign minister said “nothing”, Salvadora rebuked him “You people are so hopeless, we are giving a million and, as head of the family, I’m taking it up to him”.

Some very rich Americans

John D. Rockefeller

On 29 September 1916, John D. Rockefeller became the first man to ever reach a nominal personal fortune of $1 billion. Rockefeller amassed his fortune from the Standard Oil company, of which he was a founder, chairman and major shareholder. By the time of his death in 1937, estimates place his net worth in the range of $392 billion to $663.4 billion in adjusted dollars for the late 2000s, and it is estimated that his personal fortune was equal to 1.53% of the total U.S. annual GDP in his day.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Cornelius Vanderbilt got his fortune from shipping and railroad. His net worth was $105 million in 1877. This was equal to 1.15% of the U.S. annual GDP in his day. In todays  market his wealth is estimated somewhere between $143 billion and $178.4 billion.

Henry Ford

Henry Ford as we all know was an American automotive engineer, entrepreneur, and founder of the Ford Motor Company. His highest earnings are recorded at age 57 and he died at the age of 83 in 1947 at a net worth of $188.1 billion in todays market.

John Jacob Astor

John Jacob Astor began trading in furs and later in real estate and opium. By 1800 his wealth was $250,000, and by the time of his death in 1848 his fortune had grown to $20 million.I todays market his wealth $116 billion.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates has singularly amassed the largest fortune in all history through his computer corporation Microsoft, peaking at $101 billion in 1999. By 2007, his net worth had dropped to $82 billion, and by 2011 his worth was valued at $56 billion. Gates donates the majority of his wealth to charity.

Stevetheblogger

Born in 1950 in England he now lives in Canada with his French Canadian Wife. Stevetheblogger is said to have amassed a fortune of love provided by his Wife, Children and Grand Children, and is reported to say “no one is as lucky as I no one has gained the amount of love that I have gleaned from my family.

stevetheblogger

Inventor of the first car, he originally started fives different businesses which all failed and let him broke. He later founded Ford motors.

• Bill Gates

Dropped out of Harvard, first business ended as a failure. Doesn’t seem like a road to success does it? Well now he’s worth $61 billion.

• R.H. Macy

 Attempted to make seven businesses which all failed before opening Macy’s in New York. I guess eighth times a charm?

• Walt Disney 

Fired from a newspaper because “He lacked imagination and had no good ideas,” and later failed at starting several businesses. His name now is known by basically everyone.

• Charles Schultz 

Every comic strip he ever made denied by his school’s newspaper, and even denied by Disney himself! Didn’t look to good for future creator of the beloved Peanuts crew.

• Isaac Newton

 Failed in school and then stuck in charge of his family’s farm. Failed at that, so his uncle took over and sent him off to Cambridge where he became the genius known today.

• Albert Einstein

Didn’t speak until he was four, didn’t read until he was seven, an later denied to Zurich Polytechnic School. Oh and his parents thought he was going to be disabled and antisocial. 

• Elvis Presley

He wasn’t always the King. After one performance he was told “You ain’t going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck.” I guess he showed him.

•Harland David Sanders

Better known as Colonel Sanders of KFC. Had his famous chicken recipe denied 1,009 times until a recipe accepted it.

• Thomas Edison

Told he was “too stupid to learn anything” and then fired from his first two jobs. Later failed 1,000 times to make a lightbulb until he finally got it right.

In a study conducted at Henry Ford Health System Detroit shows, 70% of participants received a telephone call using the same side with the dominant hand.

Left brain dominant people tend to use the right hand for writing and doing other work, including holding the phone. Similarly, right-brain dominant people tend to use the left hand to hold the cell phone.

“Our findings have some impact, especially in mapping the language centers in the brain,” said Director of the Division of Surgery and Neurosurgery Otologi Henry Ford, Michael Seidman, told UPI.

This study focused on cell phones, not to the preferences when using a telephone cable. What about you?

with the right mental attitude

from achieving his goal;

Nothing on earth can help the man

with the wrong mental attitude.”

- W.W. Ziege

“So go ahead and make mistakes.

Make all you can.

Because that’s where you will find success.

On the far side of failure. “

- Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

“You see things and say, ‘Why?,’

But I dream things and say, ‘Why not?’” – George Bernard Shaw

”Don’t be afraid your life will end;

Be afraid that it will never begin.”

- Grace Hansen

“Success often comes to those who dare to act.

It seldom goes to the timid

Who are ever afraid of the consequences.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

“Success is never ending, failure is never final.”

- Dr. Robert Schuller

“Obstacles are those frightful things

You can see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

- Henry Ford

“The difference between a successful person and others

Is not a lack of strength,

Not a lack of knowledge,

But rather a lack of will.”

- Vince Lombardi

“The secret of success

Is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.”

- Bob Brown

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

Small people always do that,

But the really great

Make you feel that

You, too, can become great.”

- Mark Twain

“In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.”

- Albert Einstein

“I have failed over and over again – that is why I succeed.”

- Michael Jordan

“The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”

- Henry Ford

In Stone’s case, the 68-year-old musician has been arrested several times for drug-related crimes and has performed publicly only occasionally in recent years.

It’s another instance of a famous person falling on hard times for one reason or another.  In fact, the list of some of the more famous people who have fallen victim to schemes, dashed hopes, bad decisions and the like may surprise you.  Here’s a brief list of some of the better known that took a fall.

Top Ten Celebs Who Fell

1. Mark Twain, (a.k.a. Samuel Langhorne Clemens) lost most of his money investing in a worthless machine called the Paige Compositor, an automatic typesetting machine.  He filed for bankruptcy in 1894.

2. Henry Ford, the automobile manufacturer, had his first two automobile manufacturing companies fail.

3. Jerry Lee Lewis, the famous Rock n’ Roll star, filed for bankruptcy in 1988 because of huge tax debts.

4. Actor Burt Reynolds filed for bankruptcy in 1996 in Florida after his much publicized divorce from Loni Anderson.

5. Wayne Newton, singer and Las Vegas entertainer, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1992 listing more than $20 million in debt.

6. MC Hammer (Stanley Burrell), musician and entertainer, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1996 because he did not have the income to support his lavish lifestyle and defend all the lawsuits that were filed against him.

7. Walt Disney, cartoon creator and Disneyland founder, filed for bankruptcy in 1920 after his main client of his new business filed for bankruptcy.

8. Larry King, former talk show host, filed for bankruptcy in 1960 and then again in 1978.

9. Phineas Taylor Barnum, better known as P.T., considered by many the greatest American showman and the man who was quoted to have said, “there’s a sucker born every minute,” filed for bankruptcy in 1871 due to losses he incurred in unwise business ventures.

10. Donald Trump, businessman and television show host, filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case for his casino empire in 2004 to reorganize his business after negotiations with his creditors failed.  That was the second bankruptcy case for his casino business.

And that’s enough to say … ‘you’re fired.”

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Albert Einstein – The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921, Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879.

Shakespeare –  he was Born on 26 April 1564 (birth date is not confirmed though)

Stratford, Warwick shire, UK , Died 23 April 1616 at the age of 52. One of the best play- writer, poet, actor

Walt Disney - Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago Illinois, I can not imagine the world, especially for children without Walt Disney. 

Henry Ford- Henry Ford was born in 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan and died in 1947 his aim was “I will build a car for the great multitude” 

Socrates. Greek philosopher of Athens. Famous for his view of philosophy and as man  who lived for a pursuit proper and necessary to all intelligent men, he was one of the greatest examples who lived by his principles. He had to sacrifice his life for his principals.

M.K. Gandhi-  Born on 2nd October 1969 and died in January 1948.  He used to say “I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your” heads before any one even at the cost of your life

The longest in the history of the will was written by the U.S. president Thomas Jefferson. In addition to detailed property orders, he wrote many pages devoted to reflections on the fate and America’s history. Interesting that all the heirs of Jefferson, received their share of the inheritance only if they set free all their slaves. The most detailed will left English playwrighter William Shakespeare. He managed to describe and bequeath all his property even small things, such as old shoes and used clothing. By the way, this will is the only indisputable document which proves that Shakespeare actually existed! The shortest will in the world wrote a banker from London. It contained just three words: “I am completely devastated.” And a shoemaker from Marseilles wrote a most indecent will in the history. Of the 123 words written in the document, 94 belong to the non-lexic words.

The most offensive will left a medieval farmer. He left 100 livres to his wife, but if it comes out that she again marries, her husband will get another 100 livres. The farmer noticed in his will that he wanted to brighten the life of her future husband, poor guy, because as soon as he marries, his life turns into hell.

                                                       Millions of Nobel

The most inexplicable will was drawn up by a laboratory workerof the famous physicist Niels Bohr. There were so many technical terms and complex phraseological units that to decrypt it was necessary to call expert linguists, who for weeks tried to figure out what all it means.

The largest cash sum ever bequeathed was $ 500 million. It was left by Henry Ford. However, he ordered to distribute it between 4157 educational and charitable institutions.

The most famous in the world will left Alfred Nobel, he bequeathed 30 million kroons for the establishment of the famous Nobel Prize. This will was contested by relatives, but they have not achieved success. And the Nobel money ordered according to his testament, which says: “I, the undersigned, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, after mature reflection hereby declare that all of my assets should be invested by my executor to secure papers and make fund from which procents will be distributed annually in premiums for those who in the past year has brought the greatest benefit to mankind. Money will be divided into five parts, which are distributed as follows: one part to the person who makes the most important discovery or invention in the field of physics, one – the one who makes the most important discovery or improvement in the field of chemistry, one – the one who will make an important discovery in physiology or medicine; one – the one who creates in the field of literature the most outstanding work of idealistic tendencies, and one – the one who will make the greatest contribution to the cause, contributing to the removal or reduction of existing armies, support of peace congresses. “

In addition to these, the most humane and best wishes, document contained another scary point – Nobel was terribly afraid that he will be buried alive, and demanded before burrying to cut the veins on his hands …

                                                                                 Wife of the dog

The most secretive will left billionaire Michael Rothschild. It says: “Absolutely and unequivocally forbid any inventory of my estate, any judicial intervention and disclosure of my condition.” So still people do not know what was the real state of the richest man and how he ordered it …

Very often, the millionaires leave all to their favorite dog or cat. The biggest “dog” status was left to millionaire film producer Roger Dorcas. His dog Maximilian inherited $ 65 million. Wife of a millionaire, has inherited a penny, has filed in court, but it recognized the will of the legitimate, as Dorcas made in advance of Maximilian “human” documents. The wife Dorcas was not desperate and confused. Once a dog has a status of a person, can inherit and then it can get married! Dorcas widow immediately performed marriage. When the dog died, she quietly entered the law of inheritance, as Maximilian did not leave will…

The most deceptive will left the great illusionist Harry Houdini. In it he stated that all the secrets of his own tricks recorded and put in the safe, which he allows to open only on the day of his centenary. When the appointed day safe was opened, it was empty. Magician has once again deceived the public!

                                                                  Death by sex

The original will left the comedian Charlie Chaplin. He bequeathed a million dollars to anyone who will manage the release from the mouth five cigarette rings and inside of them to make another one sixth. So far nobody has been able to do so, and a million dollars still waiting for his owner …

At the beginning of the XX century German engineer and professor from the city of Darmstadt Volfskel Paul (1856-1906) left an unusual testament to Gottingen Academy of Sciences. It states that those who first present a complete proof of Fermat’s famous theorem, the Academy is obliged to hand over 50 000 gold marks, sent to the Academy by Volfskel. The testament was written exactly for a hundred years – from September 13, 1907 to September 13, 2007. Many famous mathematicians and ordinary people tried to find a solution to the Great theorem and get a bonus of Volfskel. But during that time no one could solve this problem, and the gold of Volfskel became the property of Gottingen Academy of Sciences.

The most piquant will left a 72-year-old German, Rolf Eden; in his native Berlin, he is a womanizer and doesn’t have good reputation. And thus the local women are not willing to be with him. And then Eden made unexpected will, after which he was not willing to release from the women wanted to spend night with him. The elderly man bequeathed his fortune valued at 300 thousand dollars to a woman in which arms he dies: “I want to die in the most beautiful moment of my life. First, good fun with a beautiful woman, then it’ll get rough sex, then come and orgasm followed by a heart attack from which I died. Look at my age, and the latter can become even tomorrow night. “

But in fact, Eden is not going to die, and happily enjoy the moments of wisdom drawn up by a will, giving him so many beautiful moments …

A key emotion that may preserve you from reaching what you want in life is Concern or Low stage concern, Anxiousness, Worry. I am not speaking about panic assaults, excessive level fears and phobias, which are often attributable to a major emotional event in your past. The concern and anxiousness I am referring to are these each day worries, niggles or sixth sense telling you that each one shouldn’t be quite right for you. They can keep you caught if you happen to allow them to and can grow out of all proportion when you don’t act to resolve the feelings.

If this fear is having a significant destructive impact in your life, it?s time to do something about it.

Fortunately these fears may be turned into a optimistic resource and could be simply overcome. They are telling you that one thing goes to happen quickly that it is advisable put together for. They’re your body’s way of alerting you to something you want to do.

The answer

? Assessment what you feel fearful about and consider what you should do to organize yourself.

? Work out what actions it is advisable take to take care of the state of affairs in the absolute best way.

Overcoming your concern ? e.g. a concern of learning IT Abilities

1. Understand your cause for eager to be taught new skills. What does it mean to you? What’s going to it offer you? What’s in it for you?

You probably have a compelling purpose for achieving your goal of learning a brand new talent then you’ll overcome any boundaries that might come along.

2. Determine what you are afraid of. What precisely are you saying to your self? If it?s ?I can?t do this? or ?I?m too outdated to be taught something new? or ?I might make a mistake and break one thing?. These are destructive or limiting beliefs that you’ve got about the situation and when you permit them to, will cease you from being successful. What you want to do is change a destructive thought to a positive one. For example, ?I can do it? or ?Even though I am XX I can learn a brand new ability?.

One among my favourite quotes is from Henry Ford who said ?For those who think you’ll be able to otherwise you assume you’ll be able to?t, your proper!? Start telling yourself that you are able to do it.

3. What do that you must do? Who can assist you? Who are you aware who has already done what you want to do? What programs are there locally?

4. Determine what it’s good to do, imagine that you are able to do it, then do it!

At this stage additionally verify in with your self about your stage of commitment. Charge yourself on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being low and 10 being High as to how a lot you really need to learn about IT. If it’s 7 and above well accomplished and go to it. Anything below 7 then you have to return to your purpose and perceive what it’s that you just want to achieve. Once you’re at 10 then you’ll do whatever it takes.

Benefit from the Process!

Noelyne Jones

Please be happy to print this article and cross it to anyone you know who has a fear of computers.

Get the news went repairer of watches, which was occupied at an early age and occupation. Finishing high school, left home to engage parents in Detroit as an apprentice, with a salary of $ 2.50 per month.

After three years spent in Detroit, returned to his father’s farm, but does not feel attraction to agriculture. Dream else.

All the dreaming, building a steam car, based on a chassis from a grass trimmer. Neighbors have seen her running, but the crooked nose: it was a simple experience, no practical use.

A highly successful marriage

Marriage to Clara Bryant, daughter of a farmer, was found, unexpectedly, the moral support of his inquiring mind: she always regarded with awe, and encouraged him when he looks ecstatic display, with pride of his inventions.

In that time, Daimler and Benz have launched their first car market. Ford has long been circling the new inventions, and in late 1891, he told his wife that he would like to build his prototype and his own car.

The idea seemed impossible, but Clara said he was excited. Both Ford and took the young man. He went to Detroit for the documentary, and vowed to “Illuminated Edison Company where noted for his ingenuity, he was appointed chief engineer.

Meanwhile, Ford has built his own shop at home, starting work on the construction of a gasoline-engine cars, spending and small economies in the direction of this passion.

Business grows

Clara was born recently and was forced to ponder the money, but he put in sweep these prosaic details. She was convinced her husband to succeed, or at least, so it looks like.

Moral support of his wife gave him courage and, in 1902, Ford Ford & Malcomson build partnership, together with some Alexander Y. Malcomson, who becomes associate.

Business going. The next year, makes and sells the first car, and society becomes modest partenierat Ford Motor Company. After building a couple more cars, I let the idea germinates in production on the treadmill.

A long Mustaca idea. Meanwhile, make a sensation with its own concept car, the driver traveling a mile in just 39.4 seconds. It was for those times ametitoate speed: 147 mph. Newspapers have reported record, and Ford’s name became known.

Meanwhile, Ford began to become more popular in the U.S., and Ford Motor Company is launching a new type of machine, elegant and cheap. The legendary Ford Model T appeared in 1908.

King car is based on his subjects

On the day allowed the production conveyor assembly of 50 cars in 24 hours, the Ford brand detached from other growers. Henry Ford started to address specific eccentricity that hardly seems a businessman.

He doubled wages, shortened work day to 8 hours (not to be imposed and any trade union) and introduced the world’s first working week of 5 days (still without a union).

Afford to select staff and, in 1927, the Model T had become the best selling car in the world. That same year, Henry Ford became the richest man in the world.

Maybe the rich are not like when our wealth today. Without someone to enforce them, Ford has launched a spectacular campaign finance pacifist organizations, while his wife, Clara, spent millions of dollars to charity.

King dies, the kingdom continues

In contrast to such social behavior, Ford built his own family for an elegant residence with 56 rooms, pool and golf course, six garden paradise with a lake artificially and two parks.

I made one of snobbery. This argument was ultraconfort who determined not to leave his son into the world to stay home and everything related to Henry Ford realized that he could not conceive that the empire he built to fit the hand of another, than that of their son .

That has happened. As Henry age, businesses were gradually taken over by his son, Edsel Ford. But in life things do not always turn out the way they predict. In 1943, Edsel Ford dies. Businesses are taken nephew – Henry Ford II – who is president of the company.

Four years later, in 1947, we destroy a brain haemorrhage on the old Henry Ford, at age 83 years and so the king goes out of the car. After him, however, remained a huge kingdom, which still today have being led by Ford’s followers successors hand as he wanted it forever.

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Something from yesterday in the USA comes back today through Canadian industries and that is a hemp car. The impact resistant body is made of hemp and runs only on electric power. It is to be tested this fall by Motive Industries, Inc. a high tech manufacturing industry in Calgary. Seating four it will have a top speed of 90 kilometers or around 56 miles per hour and can run up to 100 miles without need for recharging. Pretty amazing.

Cars made of hemp are not a new phenomenon. In 2001 a car that ran solely on hemp oil, a safe and completely clean biodiesel, named “Hempcar” toured the United States and Canada from July 4, 2001 leaving Washington, D.C. and going back to Canada on October 2, 2001. Hempcar established a world distance record for a vehicle utilizing hemp for fuel traveling a total of 10,000 miles. Activists in the United States and Canada supplied Hempcar with the hemp oil for fuel refills as it made its trek across two countries. The hemp oil came from industrial hemp seed which is the plant that contains no drugs (THC or psychoactive properties as its cousin plant cannabis) and is utilized in over 25,000 products ranging from clothing, paper, to this car in many countries. In the United States it is still illegal to grow industrial hemp and the activists showed the country how useful the plant can be in providing the green fuel and industrial solutions that America and Canada are screaming for in the age of global change.

Still the idea and reality of the hemp car, one made of 100% hemp and fueled 100% by hemp oil, is not one that is newly discovered. In the 1930s Henry Ford produced the first 100% hemp car of that description and indeed the name says it all. All hemp, fueled by hemp. The car didn’t make production or further development because later on in the 1930s marijuana prohibition went into effect, wiping out industrial hemp with it and taking the environmentally safe car industry with it. Onward car manufacturers favored materials such as steel for vehicle production.  The other materials employed after the prohibition of marijuana which were glass and carbon-based and were of a lighter weight than steel, however, they were very energy intensive to produce costing the consumer and environment more strain. If marijuana prohibition (what eradicated industrial hemp along with it for no good reason) had never happened or the prohibitionists had kept their hands off industrial hemp what would our environmentally clean solutions look like today? Would it be a cleaner world to live in? I think so.

Motive Industries, Inc. said “It’s illegal to grow cannabis in the US, so it actually gives Canada a bit of a market advantage.” While we can import hemp products that are processed we still cannot keep up with Canada’s leading hemp vehicle industry. The costs will skyrocket with the Kestrel for people living in the U.S.  because of the increased price of imported quality products.  Indeed, Motive Industries, Inc. has a great market advantage over the United States with this one car.

The Kestrel produces zero tailpipe emissions and the manufacturing process is green also. What more could environmental activists want out of a product? It doesn’t take that much technology to begin producing industrial hemp products. We can begin with a large field and the energy of the sun. The hardest part to introduce these green products and technologies, green jobs, and so on into the United States is not the building of the factories or getting a market for the products, instead the hardest part is changing the law of prohibition of cannabis on a federal level.

Many main stream groups in the United States support the legal right to grow industrial hemp in the United States and there are several Bills in the US House and US Senate dealing with similar issues that would bring the United States one or two steps closer to becoming a booming market for hemp products. Find your congressman and let them know. The earth is counting on you.

“Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?” – Henry Ford