On the other hand, there have been a few artists who managed to achieve both fame and fortune during their days on earth. A great example is Pablo Picasso. A lot of people don’t realize that Picasso was alive and producing art right up until his death in 1973. Next time you see a friend who was old enough to get on a plane in 1973, kick them for not flying over the France and getting Picasso to doodle something on a napkin.
The discovery was made by Grosvenor under the auspices of BBC’s Britain’s Lost Masterpieces series, the whole purpose of which is to find secretly priceless art within publicly maintained art collections. The Virgin Mary was found at Scotland’s Haddo House collection, where it had previously thought to have been painted by a much less well-known artist named Innocenzo da Imola. After suspecting that the painting, dating from somewhere between 1505 and 1510, was actually a Raphael, Grosvenor secured permission to have the painting cleaned and investigated to find whether his suspicion was correct.
As a rookie Raven, he helped the team win Super Bowl XXXV. Most famous for his career with the Ravens, Lewis made outstanding performance in the 2003 season, where he rushed for 2,066 yards, which is third-most of all-time, behind Eric Dickerson and Adrian Peterson. The same year, he also rushed for 295 yards in one game. It was a record at the time until Adrian Peterson rushed for 296 yards in 2007.
Nowadays, they both lead their diversified Irving Group of Companies, which has drastically expanded over the years. The growing company has literally dominated the local economy, when it comes to dealing with oil, natural gas, gas stations, timber, paper products, construction, shipbuilding, agriculture, building supplies, newspapers etc. But apart from the above, the group that currently employs over 15,000 people and maintains operations in both Canada and the United States is also the owner of a Canadian Hockey League team.
Over the years, the company has also turned into one of India’s biggest conglomerates that holds a great variety of industries. In 2013, Jamshyd announced a partnership between Godrej Appliances and Bosch and Siemens in order to develop a new product line of energy-efficient refrigerators for Asian and African markets. Today, together with his sister Smita Crishna, he holds a 40% share of the family assets. Moreover, Jamshyd is a member of the board of the World Resources Institute and Aspen Institute, and serves as Vice-president of the World Wide Fund for Nature.
It was in 2010, when JCDecaux became the world’s largest outdoor advertising company with more than 10,300 employees worldwide in more than 55 countries. Two years later, Decaux made a deal with the city of Sao Paulo, granting his company a 25-year contract to design, manufacture, install and maintain the advertising faces on 1,000 digital clocks. Currently, Decaux serves as a chairman of the company’s supervisory board, because in 2000, he handed over his CEO role to his two sons Jean-Francois and Jean-Charles.
He last won at the 2004 Mr. Goodcents 300 held in Kansas. He finished 2013 in 19th place. Nemechek made his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut in 1993 at the Slick 50 300 in New Hampshire. He has since run 666 races in 22 years with the Sprint Cup Series, winning four times, most recently at Kansas’ 2004 Banquet 400, and finishing in the top ten 62 times. His best finish in the Sprint Cup Series came in 2000 when he ended the year in 15th place.
In 1990, this Republican Party member was a candidate for governor of Georgia, but lost. After two years, Johnny Isakson got elected to the Georgia Senate and served one term. He had another futile run in the Republican primary in the 1996 U.S. Senate elections. Once the position for the 6th District Congressman and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich became vacant as the current holder resigned, Isakson ran and won in the February 1999 special election.
Gracin’s self-titled debut studio album was released in 2004. The album was certified Gold and hit #2 on the US Country chart and #11 on the Billboard 200. The album contained the #1 US Country and Gold certified single “Nothin’ to Lose”, as well as the popular singles “I Want to Live” and “Stay with Me (Brass Bed)”. His second studio album We Weren’t Crazy was released in 2008 and hit #4 on the US Country and #33 on the Billboard 200 charts.
After she took some time off to take acting lessons, she returned to performing, and rejoined the cast of “Coronation Street” as pub landlady, Bet Lynch. She went on to play the role for 25 years. In addition to her award-winning work on “Coronation Street”, she has also appeared in such projects as “Nearest and Dearest”, “The Dustbin Men”, “Revolver”, “Hollyoaks”, and “The Girls Aloud Party”.
Katherine has appeared in the TV shows Seinfeld, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Touched by an Angel, and The Practice. From 2001 to 2002 she starred as Bess on the series Three Sisters. She has had recurring roles on NYPD Blue, Miss Match, The Guardian, Judging Amy, Love Monkey, Justice, 12 Miles of Bad Road, Big Love, The Defenders, Two and a Half Men, Deception, and Longmire. She has starred in the films Kiss & Tell, Schizopolis, Alfie, The Lucky Ones, Valentine’s Day, The Campaign, and The Frozen Ground.
Bekker helped to transform the company into a media power house that has investments in India, Russia, and China. They hold stake in China’s Internet and the instant messaging service Tencent Holdings as well as Russian Internet company Mail.ru and Brazilian magazine published Abril. Bekker helped Naspers go from $600 million to $45 billion and took no salary or benefits, only stock option grants. Koos was founding director of the African mobile firm MTN.
Janzen has eight wins on the PGA Tour and his most notable wins are the 1993 and 1998 U.S. Opens. Both times he defeated Payne Stewart to win the U.S. Open. Lee also won at The Players Championship in 1995. His best finish at the Masters Tournament was 12th in 1995 and 1996 and he finished 4th at the 1997 PGA Championship. Janzen played on the American Ryder Cup teams in 1993 and 1997.
After having a year-long honeymoon in the Canadian bushes, the couple set up a media company Wilderness Spirit Productions. For the Discovery channel, Stroud produced a couple of popular survival programmes called One Week in the Wilderness and Winter in Wilderness. This led the development of Survivorman in 2004. Stroud is the producer, director and cameraman for the survival show. Stroud has also produced other notable survival programs, including Off the Grid with Les Stroud (2006) and a 50 minute-documentary, Snowshoes and Solitude, which was named the Best Documentary at the Muskoka Festival.
He started managing Ajax officially in 1991 until 1997. He managed Barcelona beginning in 1997, followed by Netherlands in 2000, Barcelona again in 2002, AZ in 2005, Bayern Munich in 2009, and Netherlands again starting in 2012. In May 2014 Van Gaal signed a contract as the new manager for Manchester United, which will take effect after the 2014 World Cup and will span three years. He is currently married to his wife, Truus, and has two children with his former wife by the names of Brenda and Renate.
Some of his best known film roles include playing Shockley in 1990’s Die Hard 2, Burt in 2000’s Memento, and Flass in 2005’s Batman Begins. He has also starred in the movies Of Mice and Men, Geronimo: An American Legend, The Quick and the Dead, Last of the Dogmen, Se7en, The Game, Hack, Armageddon, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, The Thin Red Line, The General’s Daughter, Memento, Get Carter, 2 Fast 2 Furious, 30 Days of Night, Halloween II, and Fully Loaded.
Louis played with the team’s minor league affiliate before making his NHL debut on October 9, 1998. The scored his first career NHL goal a few weeks later. In 2000, he signed a free agent deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning, eventually becoming one of the team’s top players and earning captain status. St. Louis was later traded to the New York Rangers in 2014. He has played in more than 1,000 NHL career games and was with the Lightning for their 2004 Stanley Cup championship.
Kalomirakis is, fittingly enough, in the home theater business. And I don’t just mean typical entertainment system setups, but “residential theaters” that are akin to having a movie theater in your house. Since he obviously hooked himself up with a primo home theater, it’s only reasonable that he have a movie collection to best enjoy it – and at his most recent public guess, his collection consisted of somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 titles.
Since leaving the 76ers, Croce worked as a television commentator on The NBA on NBC and was a taekwondo commentator for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. He also owns the Colonial Quarter living history museum in St. Augustine, Florida (in conjunction with the University of Florida), and became a majority partner in the iconic Green Parrot Bar in Key West. He has written 13 books throughout his career and was one of the four judges on ABC’s reality television series, American Inventor, which ran in 2007.
He was named IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper in both 1992 and 1993. Schmeichel was the captain of Manchester United when they won the UEFA Champions League in 1999 and won the UEFA Euro 1992 with Denmark. He is the most capped player for Denmark and played in 129 games. In 2003 he was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame. His son Kasper Schmeichel plays goalkeeper for Leicester City and Denmark.