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Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958) is an American businessman, investor and television personality. He is the former principal owner and current minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), co-owner of 2929 Entertainment, and one of the main "sharks" on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank.
e. Jewish Cubans, Cuban Jews, or Cubans of Jewish heritage, have lived in the nation of Cuba for centuries. Some Cubans trace Jewish ancestry to Marranos (forced converts to Christianity) who came as colonists, though few of these practice Judaism today. The majority of Cuban Jews are descended from European Jews who immigrated in the early ...
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York to psychiatrist Karen (née Kempner) and dentist Edward Zuckerberg. [2] [3] He and his three sisters (Arielle, Randi, and Donna) were raised in a Reform Jewish household [4] in Dobbs Ferry, New York. [5] His great-grandparents were emigrants from Austria, Germany, and ...
He Set a Rich-Guy World Record. In 1999 -- the same year that Cuban sold his company and entered the three-comma club -- Guinness World Records gave the e-tycoon a place in its hallowed pages.
Here are some things you might not know about him: 1) In 2007 Cuban was a contestant in the television show 'Dancing with the Stars'. 2) In 1999 he made it into the Guinness Book of Records for ...
Cuban children waiting in line to emigrate. Operation Peter Pan (or Operación Pedro Pan) was a clandestine exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors ages 6 to 18 to the United States over a two-year span from 1960 to 1962. They were sent by parents who feared, on the basis of unsubstantiated rumors, [ 1] that Fidel Castro and the ...
Gameday Couture. In 2014, Marl Cuban invested $500,000 for a 30% stake of Gameday Couture, which started out making officially licensed college apparel for women.
Robert de Reddinge (converted c. 1275) Abba Sabra, fifteenth-century Ethiopian Orthodox monk who joined the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) community. He converted his pupil, prince Abba Saga, to Judaism and introduced monasticism to Ethiopian Jewry. Nicolas Antoine, former Protestant theologian.