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Raymond Elmer DeWalt (October 9, 1885 – May 8, 1961) was an American inventor and entrepreneur, who invented the radial arm saw in 1922. In 1924, he founded DeWALT Products Company in Leola, Pennsylvania, to manufacture and sell the “Wonder-Worker” (his name for the radial arm saw). As the company was reaching an early pinnacle of success ...
DeWalt Ford Fusion in 2008, driven by Matt Kenseth.. DeWalt Tools sponsored NASCAR driver Matt Kenseth from 1999 through to the season of 2009. In this time period, Kenseth won 18 races, the 2000 Sprint Cup Rookie of the Year Award, 2003 Winston Cup Series Championship, 2004 NEXTEL Cup All Star Race and the 2009 Daytona 500.
Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. (May 17, 1931 – March 26, 1997), also known as Do, [a] among other names, [b] was an American religious leader who founded and led the Heaven's Gate new religious movement (often described as a cult), and organized their mass suicide in 1997.
"There, I told you that she would pay it if you went the right way to work with her." [4] — John Jacob Astor, German-American multi-millionaire businessman (29 March 1848), to his son. Astor had been worried about an overdue rent payment. His son paid the woman's rent and claimed that she had paid it. "It is now half-past nine. World, adieu!"
Richard P. Rodriguez [2] was born on January 25, 1975, in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, as David Moses Zerby.His mother was Karen Zerby, the spiritual leader of the religious cult Children of God (COG), and his father was a Spanish hotel waiter named Carlos whom Zerby had "Flirty Fished", a practice in which female cult members would have sex with men to draw in potential converts. [3]
David Ray Wilkerson (May 19, 1931 – April 27, 2011 [1]) was an American Christian evangelist, best known for his book The Cross and the Switchblade.He was the founder of the addiction recovery program Teen Challenge, and founding pastor of the interdenominational Times Square Church in New York City.
Joseph Smith Sr. (July 12, 1771 – September 14, 1840) was the father of Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.Joseph Sr. was also one of the Eight Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, which Mormons believe was translated by Smith Jr. from golden plates.
Joseph Bamford was born into a recusant Catholic family in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, which owned Bamfords Ltd, an agricultural engineering business. [2]His great-grandfather Henry Bamford [3] was born in Yoxall and had built up his own ironmongers business, which by 1881 employed 50 men, 10 boys and 3 women.