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Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court (27 July 1937 – 2 September 1990) was a South African-born Australian businessman who became Australia's first billionaire, before dying suddenly of heart failure in 1990 at the age of 53.
Robert Holmes à Court (born July 27, 1937, Johannesburg, S. Afr.—died Sept. 2, 1990, Heytesbury, near Perth, Western Australia) was an Australian entrepreneur nicknamed “the Great Acquirer” for his billion-dollar raids on major companies in England and Australia.
Simon Holmes à Court (born 30 May 1972 [citation needed]) is an Australian businessman and political activist. He is the son of Australia's first billionaire Robert Holmes à Court, and convenor of Climate 200.
Mr. Holmes is a 2015 mystery film directed by Bill Condon, based on Mitch Cullin 's 2005 novel A Slight Trick of the Mind, and featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. The film stars Ian McKellen as Sherlock Holmes, Laura Linney as his housekeeper Mrs. Munro and Milo Parker as her son Roger. Set primarily during his retirement in Sussex, the ...
May 23, 2022 · He's a one-time dabbler in AI who worked in Silicon Valley in the 1990s before it was cool, then Simon Holmes à Court pivoted to renewable energy about a decade ago when he helped build Australia's first community-owned wind farm, with the help of state and federal subsidies (according to the Australian Financial Review).
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, U.S. legal historian and philosopher who advocated judicial restraint. He stated the concept of “clear and present danger” as the only basis for limiting the right of freedom of speech. Holmes was the first.
Jan 3, 2022 · Jim Wilson/The New York Times. SAN JOSE, Calif. — Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the failed blood testing start-up Theranos, was found guilty of four of 11 charges of fraud on Monday, in a...
