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Profession: Drug Lord Biography: Frank Lucas was an American drug lord from New York City who controlled the heroin trade in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He made a deal directly with sources in Southeast Asia which allowed him to cut out the middleman, allegedly smuggling heroin back in the coffins of dead American soldiers. Lucas was the subject of American Gangster (2007), a film based loosely on his life, in which he was played by Denzel Washington. [Read More]

What you wear to a food festival can make or break your experience whether you’re overdressed, under-dressed, or you didn’t think ahead to anticipate what your wardrobe needs might be. After all, it's pretty hard to focus on enjoying the food when you're too preoccupied with feeling out of place, your feet are seriously aching, you're lugging around an uncomfortable handbag and you're way to hot and sticky. When pulling together your wardrobe, it's important to think about whether it is indoors or out? [Read More]

Birth of Islam (622 - 800)0622-09-20 Prophet Muhammad arrives in Yathrib (Medina) 0630-01-01 Prophet Muhammad sets out with an army 10,000 strong to conquer Mecca 0661-01-29 Rashidun Caliphate, then the largest empire in history, ends with the death of its leader, Ali. Succeeded by the Umayyad Caliphate. 0680-10-10 Al-Hussein (Al-Ḥusayn ibn) and his followers killed at Karbala by army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on the way to Kufa 0721-06-09 Odo of Aquitaine defeats a Umayyad Muslim army at the Battle of Toulouse 0730-12-09 Battle of Marj Ardabil, Turkic Khazar army led by Barjik defeats Umayyad force, with 20,000 killed including general al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah, whose head is mounted on a throne 0732-10-10 Battle of Tours: Umayyad army led by Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi defeated by Frankish Aquitainian force led by Charles Martel during Umayyad invasion of Gaul [Read More]

Rest is essential. People who make true rest—not just sleep—part of their everyday routine have better outcomes across different aspects of their health. Their sleep quality is better, life satisfaction is higher, chronic pain is lessened, work productivity is greater, and they even tend to live longer. The trouble is, rest usually gets pushed to the bottom of the to-do list. And if you fill your nights and weekends with exciting plans, your time off can be just as demanding and depleting as work. [Read More]

Psychopaths exhibit social and emotional deficiencies that restrict their capacity to feel genuine empathy or regret for their deeds. However, how male and female psychopaths victimise others differs, with women using less direct forms of aggression. How to know if you're friends with or dating a female psychopath? ADVERTISEMENT They always act like victims, even when at fault Female psychopaths commonly play the role of the victim in order to elicit sympathy or manipulate those around them to accomplish their objectives. [Read More]

Emma Stone won the Oscar for her leading role as Bella Baxter on Sunday night. If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. [Read More]

It turns out that there is indeed a niche industry for Wall Street psychiatrists and performance coaches, intended to get traders and investors back on their game, to avoid the loss of potentially millions of dollars of other people's money. Steve Cohen started the trend in the early 1990s when he hired the late psychiatrist Ari Kiev for his hedge fund SAC Capital, and Tony Robbins, the world's most famous performance coach, entered the financial world around the same time when he was hired by renowned investor Paul Tudor Jones. [Read More]

(Miss this week’s Leadership Brief? This interview below was delivered to the inbox of Leadership Brief subscribers on Sunday morning, March 14; to receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) Claire Babineaux-Fontenot believes it is possible to end chronic hunger and food insecurity in America. Babineaux-Fontenot is the CEO of Feeding America, one of the largest charities in the U.S. and the largest devoted to hunger relief. [Read More]

The mother of two took to her Instagram page on Wednesday, January 26, 2022, where she penned an emotional note about her journey as a single mum. "This year I began my journey as a single mum with no direction I was afraid, sometimes depressed, confused, I always had a lot of anxiety I felt like a failure, a loser, I felt I wasn't good enough, I felt little, I didn't really know how to fit in or even start, how was I even going to pull through? [Read More]

Following a storied career in basketball, Kobe Bryant 's second act was in investing. Bryant and Stibel had been investing in companies alongside each other since 2013, but decided to formally start a fund when Bryant retired from basketball, according to The Journal . ADVERTISEMENT Bryant told CNBC in a 2016 interview that he hoped to be remembered for investing more than basketball in 20 years. [Read More]