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In May 1999, an Australian man from Melbourne named Bill Morgan (born 1961) was captured on film winning a AU$250,000 scratchcard while re-enacting his previous scratchcard win for a news report. The video of the event has since been widely shared online.
In August 2005 a documentary about Carroll presented by Keith Allen, Michael Carroll: King of Chavs, was aired on Channel 4. The film investigated Carroll's vilification by tabloid papers and whether there was more to him than being a "lotto lout", which included contrasting imprisonment for affray alongside penning a "dappy" love song for his ...
Joan Ginther was an American four-time lottery winner. She first won the lottery in 1993, when she won $5.4 million in Lotto Texas (equivalent to about $11.4M in 2023). Her next win came in 2006 when she won $2 million in the Holiday Millionaire scratch-off.
He was noted for being the winner of a 2002 lottery jackpot. His win of US$314.9 million in the Powerball multi-state lottery was, at the time, the largest jackpot ever won by a single winning ticket in the history of American lottery. After winning the lottery, he was proximate to a number of crimes, and experienced several personal tragedies. [2]
Jeffrey Dampier Jr. (March 24, 1966 – July 26, 2005) was the winner of a 1996 Illinois Lottery jackpot of US$20 million (equivalent to $35.9 million in 2023). He was murdered by his sister-in-law and her boyfriend in 2005.
The Florida Lotto winning ticket worth thirty million dollars was sold at a Town Star convenience store in Frostproof, Florida, on November 15, 2006. [2] On that day, Abraham Lee Shakespeare and co-worker Michael Ford were headed toward Miami when they stopped briefly at the convenience store in Frostproof to buy drinks and cigarettes.
The Powerball lottery, which will be drawn on Wednesday evening, has an estimated jackpot of $450 million. It's a lot of money, but if you do the math, buying a ticket probably won't be worth it .
The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to Kukan and Target for Tonight. [1] They have since been bestowed competitively each year, with the exception of 1946. [2]