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Nick Leeson was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, to working-class parents on a council estate.His father was a self-employed plasterer, his mother a nurse. He attended Parmiter's School in nearby Garston.
Jack Schwager (born 1948) [1] is a trader and author.His books include Market Wizards (1989), The New Market Wizards (1992), Stock Market Wizards (2001) and Unknown Market Wizards: The best traders you've never heard of (2020).
People from the English city of Plymouth are known as Plymothians, or less formally as Janners. [1] The definition of Janner is described as a person from Devon, deriving from Cousin Jan (the Devon form of John), but more particularly in naval circles anyone from the Plymouth area. [2]
Nassim Nicholas Taleb [a] (/ ˈ t ɑː l ə b /; alternatively Nessim or Nissim; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist.
Bolt Thrower was formed in September 1986, influenced largely by bands such as Slayer, Crass and Discharge. [2] The band was founded by bassist Gavin Ward and guitarist Barry Thomson in a Coventry pub toilet during a hardcore punk gig.
Jordan Arterburn (1808–1875) and Tarlton Arterburn (1810–1883) were brothers and interstate slave traders of the 19th-century United States. They typically bought enslaved people in their home state of Kentucky in the upper south, and then moved them to Mississippi in the lower south, where there was a constant demand for enslaved laborers on the plantations of King Cotton.
Leslie Michael Grantham (30 April 1947 – 15 June 2018) was an English actor who was best known for his role as "Dirty" Den Watts in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.He was a convicted murderer, having served 10 years for the killing of a West German taxi driver, and had significant press coverage resulting from an online sex scandal in 2004.
Publix Super Markets, Inc., doing business as Publix, is an employee-owned American supermarket chain headquartered in Lakeland, Florida. [1] Founded in 1930 by George W. Jenkins, Publix is a private corporation that is wholly owned by present and past employees and members of the Jenkins family. [5]