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7 Famous People Who Got Rich By Accident

Most people chase success—few become rich by accident. Yet, some individuals stumbled into extraordinary wealth through quirky chance, overlooked assets, or unintended opportunity. These stories aren’t just inspiring—they reveal how fortune can strike without planning. Understanding how they became rich by accident offers perspective on luck, timing, and unexpected windfalls.…

Plunged in Debt

Peter James obituary

Innovative artistic director at theatres including the Liverpool Everyman, the Sheffield Crucible and the Lyric, Hammersmith

The Guardian - UK

“I had that guy on the phone and said, ‘Give me one good reason why we should sell you the guitar?’ He said, ‘The money.’ I said, ‘That’s not a good reason’”: Why Uli Jon Roth turned down a $9 million offer for Jimi Hendrix’s iconic black Strat

Hendrix’s “Black Beauty” was one of his go-to guitars – and he was in fact photographed with it a day before his death

Guitar World

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Trail Blazers Officially Put Up for Sale by Paul Allen's Estate

Paul Allen's estate has officially put the Portland Trail Blazers up for sale.

Sports Illustrated

Stratolaunch's Talon-A2 prototype goes hypersonic after dropping from world's largest airplane (photos)

Stratolaunch Systems conducted its first hypersonic test flight with its Talon-A2 vehicle and Roc carrier plane in December, then repeated the feat in March.

Space

3 men sentenced to over a century in prison after plot to kill a ringleader in UK's biggest heist

Three men who plotted to kill a former cage fighter, who years before had been convicted of being one of the ringleaders in the U.K.’s biggest-ever heist, have been sentenced to a collective term of over a century in prison

The Independent UK

Trio jailed for plotting to murder cagefighter who took part in UK’s biggest cash robbery

Their victim Paul Allen has been left paralysed for life

The Independent UK

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Three men jailed for over 100 years after plot to murder cagefighter who took part in £54m Securitas robbery

Brothers Louis Ahearne, 36, and Stewart Ahearne, 46, were sentenced at the Old Bailey alongside Daniel Kelly, 46

Evening Standard

Three men jailed for plotting to murder £54m Securitas robber

Brothers Louis Ahearne, 36, and Stewart Ahearne, 46, were sentenced at the Old Bailey alongside Daniel Kelly, 46.

The Independent UK

Microsoft just turned 50. Here's a look at an iconic 1978 photo of its first employees and where they are now

The 1978 photo came about because one employee, Bob Greenberg, won a free portrait from a radio contest.

Fortune

The 50-year-old code that reshaped the world: Bill Gates on the 'revolution' that started Microsoft

Microsoft founder Bill Gates reflects on the original source code that laid the foundations of one of the world's biggest tech companies five decades ago.

Euronews

Microsoft 50th Anniversary Copilot Event recap — all the big AI news and announcements

Microsoft is celebrating its 50th birthday with an anniversary Copilot Event today — follow along with us live.

Tom’s Guide

'We coded day and night for the two months to create the software we had said already existed': The history of Microsoft reminds me how far we've come in just 50 years

Coding onto paper and punch cards.

PC Gamer

Bill Gates shares his original Altair BASIC source code for Microsoft's 50th anniversary — "The coolest code I've ever written"

Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates commemorates its 50th birthday by sharing the BASIC interpreter code that led to its creation.

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The Independent UK

Microsoft founder Bill Gates reflects upon a 50-year-old computer code that reshaped technology

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology

The Conversation

From IBM to OpenAI: 50 years of winning (and failed) strategies at Microsoft

Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary. This article was written using Microsoft Word on a computer running Microsoft Windows. It is likely to be published on platforms hosted by Microsoft Azure, including LinkedIn, a Microsoft subsidiary with over one billion users. In 2024, the company generated a net profit of $88 billion…

International Business Times

Four Men Loom Large In Microsoft History

Microsoft was shaped by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella over the course of the last half-century in the male-dominated tech world.

Euronews

Three men convicted of cage fighter murder plot after raid on Geneva art museum

Two UK brothers and a co-conspirator attempted to kill a convicted armed robber just weeks after stealing Ming Dynasty artefacts worth millions of Euros.

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Museum burglars convicted of plot to murder £54m Securitas robber in his east London home

Paul Allen, now 47, was left paralysed for life after six shots were fired into his kitchen

Fortune

Bill Gates now drives an electric Fiat500 with a top speed of 100mph

Philanthropist Bill Gates revealed he was gifted an EV from Fiat by U2 frontman Bono for his birthday.

Evening Standard

Three men guilty of plotting to murder £54m Securitas robber

Paul Allen was paralysed for life after shots were fired at his large detached rented home in east London in 2019.

The Independent UK

Three guilty of plot to murder £54m Securitas robber Paul Allen

Paul Allen was paralysed for life after shots were fired at his large detached rented home in east London in 2019.

The Conversation

Bill Gates’ origin story describes a life of privilege, exposing the DNA of some of the tech industry’s problems

Bill Gates, cofounder of Microsoft, is one of the world’s richest men. He is also a highly controversial figure.

The Independent UK

First came the £3m museum heist, then the murder plot, court hears

They carried out a brazen museum heist before career criminal’s shooting, jurors told

Evening Standard

Murder plot accused stole Ming dynasty porcelain from Geneva museum, court told

Three men are accused of plotting to murder former cage fighter Paul Allen.

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