When I was 13, my mother, sister and I moved from one eroding manufacturing center to another. I was born in Rochester, N.Y., once home to Kodak and Xerox; in 1988, I became a resident of Howland, Ohio, one of the satellite towns around Youngstown. I was old enough and nerdy enough to understand that the region to which we were moving was already infamous for the collapse of the steel industry, but to a young teenager that history (much less the 1970s in general) seemed distant and unrelated to our new lives. Read More...
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After the death of the Prophet Muhammad two major positions developed about the nature of authority over the Muslim community. One group, which came to be called Sunni, from the Arabic word for "tradition," accepted the succession of Muhammad's elected successors, who were known as caliphs. This group was opposed by those who believed that any head of the community had to be a direct descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima and her husband Ali. Read More...
Anthony David Leighton "Tony" Scott net worth is
$90 MillionAnthony David Leighton "Tony" Scott Wiki BiographyAnthony David Leighton Scott was born on the 21st June 1944, in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England, and was a Primetime Emmy Award-winning director, producer, and writer, best known for such movies as “Top Gun” (1986), “Man on Fire” (2004), “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3” (2009), and “Unstoppable” (2010). Scott’s career started in 1969 and ended in 2012 with his passing. Read More...
