Back in 1758, Don Jose Antonio de Cuervo was given a land grant by King Ferdinand VI of Spain in the town of Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico. This was where his family established the Taberna de Cuervo, the farm where they would plant and cultivate the blue agave plant. Blue agave grows easily and in abundance in central Mexico. It is this plant that is distilled to create tequila. The very first Vino Mezcal de Tequila de Jose Cuervo was made in 1795, after King Carlos IV of Spain granted Don Jose de Cuervo’s son, Jose Maria Guadalupe de Cuervo, a permit to produce tequila commercially, following a period of prohibition under King Carlos III’s reign.
Lego’s shakeup comes as the company faces challenges to maintain the incredible growth it has had in the U.S. and Europe over the past few years, while expanding into new markets such as China and India. Lego, which has 18,500 employees, is in an eternal two-horse race with Mattel for the title of world’s largest toy company. Lego is controlled by billionaire and Denmark’s richest person Kirk Kristiansen and his family.
Lawrence’s albums Time Marches On in 1996 and The Coast Is Clear in 1997 both reached #4 on that chart. He released the albums Lessons Learned in 2000 and Tracy Lawrence in 2001. His album Strong was released in 2004 and reached #2 on the US Country chart. Lawrence has also released the albums For the Love in 2007, The Rock in 2009, The Singer in 2011, and Headlights, Taillights and Radios in 2013.
He won gold medals at the 2016 African Championships in the 200 meters and the 4×100 meter relay. Wayde van Niekerk competed in the 2016 Rio Olympics where he won a gold medal in the 400 m. He is the world record holder in the 400 m and is the first man to ever run faster than 10 seconds for the 100 m, 20 seconds for the 200 m, and 44 seconds for the 400 m.
Before that, she was married to Jake Cherry from 1990 to 1991. Deng was sponsored by an American family on a student visa and earned her master’s degree from the Yale School of Management. She is a producer who made her debut in 2011 with Snow Flower and the Secret Fan which won the Golden Angel Award at the Chinese American Film Festival. In 2016 Deng produced the documentary Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang.
2 Chainz highlights the civil duty of his so-called CEO Millionaires to ‘Create Every Opportunity’ for everyone around them, not just themselves. He wants to provide for veterans who have made unimaginable sacrifices. It’s not a surprising gesture from 2 Chainz, who has acted as Atlanta’s personal Santa Claus multiple times in the past. At the beginning of this year, the 39-year-old rapper directed proceeds from clothing sales of his ‘Dabbin’ Santa’ sweaters back into his charitable TRU (To Reassure You) Foundation.
This $32 million payday bring’s Floyd Mayweather’s career earnings over the $400 million mark. $405 million to be exact. What’s especially impressive about that statistic is the fact that Mayweather has earned that massive fortune in the last 8 years alone… off of just 12 fights. His highest payday so far is a tie. He earned $50 million when he fought Robert Guerrero and Saul Alvarez. Here is a complete breakdown of Floyd’s career earnings to date:
Aziz said that his marriage to Tagilde Aziz was never valid because it was based on a counterfeit marriage license that the couple obtained so that their adopted child could get a passport. The couple divorced in November 2016. Aziz is seeking to have that decision reversed on the grounds that he never married Tagilde. Aziz’s attorney told a High Court judge that Tagilde claimed that she married Aziz in a Muslim ceremony in Malawi in 2002.
As we detailed in our earlier article, Brad and Angelina have a combined net worth of $400 million. Of that $400 million, Brad’s net worth is $240 million and Angelina’s is $160 million. Between 2004 (when they first began dating) and today, Brad and Angelina have earned a combined $550 million. That’s before taxes. Of that $550 million, Brad has earned $315 million and Angelina has earned $235 million. Our inside sources tell us that the couple had a rock-solid prenuptial agreement.
Johnson was in the last season of his contract with the Nets, and was due $24.9 million for the season. Only Kobe Bryant is making more than him this year. Recently the Nets decided to go ahead and let him go, but only after agreeing on a buyout for his contract. What does that mean? It pretty much means they are agreeing to pay him to go away. Buyouts are typically used on guys who were part of trade deals, but the receiving team doesn’t actually want, or guys who are not in the long term plans of their current teams.
Bryce Harper’s year thus far has undoubtedly reaffirmed the beliefs of some who may have been worried about his dip in production last year. He appears to be in the midst of another MVP-worthy season, and as a result, some baseball GMs may be willing to break the bank in an effort to sign him, if a report from ESPN’s Eddie Matz is to be believed. According to one GM quoted in the report, Bryce Harper could easily sign the richest contract in the history of North American sports.
Not a lot of attention typically gets paid to the team or the head coach of the team that loses the national title game. The Clemson University Board of Trustees decided to take action in order to make sure it stays that way. They decided to show him some love. Love in the form of more money, that is. The University recently announced that it has rewarded Swinney with a new contract, a six-year deal worth $31.
The Rise of Digg.com: If you were bored at work between 2006 and 2010, Digg.com was your lifeblood. Before Facebook released the Newsfeed and way before Twitter had even been conceived, if you wanted to kill time during the day you checked the homepage of Digg.com. Digg aggregated the best news stories from all over the world and allowed users to vote their favorites to the homepage by “digging” or “burying” articles.
He was born in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, moved to at the age of ten, and joined the Coca-Cola Company in 1966 with the local bottling company there. In Germany he served as president of the Company’s Central European Division, and eventually was elected senior vice president of the Company and appointed president of the Northeast Europe/Africa Group (renamed the Northeast Europe/Middle East Group in 1992). He is know for leading the Company into new markets in India, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Her first big roles were included her work in The Worst Witch, Weirdsister College, and her longest and probably best known role overall in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers, where she played “Emma Carter”. Her mother was also passionate about film and theatre. She began acting at 11 years at an after-school workshop funded by Central Television.In 2011, she appeared in the drama Like Crazy opposite Anton Yelchin and in the romantic comedy Chalet Girl.
The lawsuit was filed by Mahogany Miller, a woman who alleges in her lawsuit that she worked for Flo Rida for only $3.08 an hour, and was fired by the rapper after she complained about her low pay and strenuous working conditions. Flo’s response to this was that Miller was lying and was actually just an unpaid intern. And while that aspect of the case is still ongoing, the judge presiding over the proceedings has settled another facet of the case: Flo Rida lied about why he failed to respond to the lawsuit.
And then he literally took his winnings home. The now-retired boxer spent $25.5 million on a French modern-style mansion on North Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills. That’s more than a quarter of what Mayweather made in the fight. Mayweather also spent $500,000 on furnishings. His home was one of four Los Angeles-area houses purchased for at least $20 million during September. The residence, built in 1992 but recently renovated, features more than 15,000 square feet of living space.
As part of Exodus, Holt has been featured on the albums 1982 Demo, Bonded By Blood, Pleasures of the Flesh, Fabulous Disaster, Impact Is Imminent, Good Friendly Violent Fun, Lessons in Violence, Force of Habit, Another Lesson in Violence, Tempo of the Damned, Shovel Headed Kill Machine, The Atrocity Exhibition… Exhibit A, Let There Be Blood, Exhibit B: The Human Condition, and Blood In, Blood Out. Holt joined Slayer when original guitarist Jeff Hanneman died in 2013.
McCoy is a three time Pro Bowl selection in 2012, 2013, and 2014. He was named a PFWA All-Pro in 2012, First-team All-Pro in 2013, and Second-team All-Pro in 2014. McCoy has been ranked in the Top 100 Players from 2013 to 2015. In 2014 and 2015 he was ranked #28. He signed a five year deal for $63 million with Tampa bay in 2010 and signed a seven year extension in 2014 for $98 million.
The Bank of Russia confirmed recently that over the course of 2016, cybercriminals were able to abscond with 2 billion rubles – about the same as $31 million in American dollars. Details on the attacks are understandably being kept under wraps, but according to one of the bank’s security executives, Artiom Sychev, they were able to recover some of the stolen funds, and the hackers had attempted to steal as much as 5 billion rubles by way of the attacks.