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Philip Hampson Knight (born February 24, 1938) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist who is the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Nike, Inc., a global sports equipment and apparel company. He was previously its chairman and CEO. [1] As of December 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at $35.1 billion.
Ferry Farm, the Washington family residence on the Rappahannock River in Stafford County, Virginia, where Washington spent much of his youth. George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, [a] at Popes Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia. [3] He was the first of six children of Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. [4]
Date of birth/death: 1810 / 2 June 1810 : 16 September 1886 : ... George Washington : Date: 1851. Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: height: 94.6 ...
William George Knight faces more than a half-dozen charges in connection with the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, including felony charges of assault on a federal officer and obstruction of law ...
Phil Knight: 1938– Co-founder of Nike, Inc. Yes [212] William W. Knight: 1909–1981 Publisher No [213] Terence Knox: 1946– Actor Yes [214] Franklin F. Korell: 1889–1965 Politician Yes [215] A. Thomas Kraabel: 1934–2016 Classics and Jewish history scholar Yes [216] LaVerne Krause: 1924–1987 Printmaker Yes [217] Jane Kurtz: 1952 ...
Dr. Phil McGraw of TV fame and best-selling author John Grisham on Monday testified before Texas lawmakers who brought a death row inmate’s execution to a sudden halt last week.. The inmate ...
In 1841 he was offered a traveling musician job in Washington D.C. (where slavery was legal). He was drugged and kidnapped into slavery for 12 years until he met Samuel Bass , a Canadian working on his plantation who helped get word to New York, where state law provided aid to free New York citizens who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery.
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River was a major American victory over Hessian forces at the Battle of Trenton and greatly boosted American morale. [181] The Battle of Saratoga and the Siege of Yorktown , which primarily ended the fighting between American and British, were also pivotal events during the war.