Conan O'Brien - Early life. Conan Christopher O’Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He is the third of six children in an Irish American family, one of four boys. His father, Dr. Thomas O’Brien, was a research physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, specializing in infectious disease. His mother, Ruth Reardon O’Brien, is a former partner of the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray [1]. His s ...

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Conan O'Brien, Conan O'Brien - Biography, Conan O'Brien - Early life, Conan O'Brien - Television career, Conan O'Brien - Late Night, Conan O'Brien - Guest appearances, Conan O'Brien - Marriage and children, Conan O'Brien - Comedy and mannerisms, Conan O'Brien - Trivia, Conan O'Brien - Quotes

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In the United States and Canada, the title of valedictorian (an anglicized derivation from the Latin vale dicere 'to say farewell') is given to the top graduate of the graduating class (compare dux) of an educational institution. This honor is traditionally based on either grades and overall GPA or a vote of the graduating students, but consideration is sometimes also given to other factors such as extracurricular activities. The title comes from the valedictorian's traditional ...

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Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. It borders Newton (part of Middlesex County) on the southwest and Boston (part of Suffolk County) in all other directions, so it is not actually contiguous with any other part of Norfolk County. As of the 2000 census, the population of the town is 57,107. Brookline Massachusetts - Government. Brookline is governed by a representative (elected) Town Meeting, which is the legislative body of the town, and a five-person Board of Selectmen which serves as th ...

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WFMU-FM is a noncommercial radio station in Jersey City, New Jersey, broadcasting at 91.1 MHz FM using a freeform radio format. It is currently the longest running freeform radio station in the United States. The station first went on the air on April 24, 1958, and was formerly affiliated with Upsala College, in East Orange, NJ. Shortly before the closing of Upsala College on May 31, 1995, WFMU purchased its license from Upsala, and is now fully independent. It relocated in August, 1998 to Jersey City, NJ. WFMU's license is now ...

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A baby boomer is someone who is born in a period of increased birth rates, such as those during the economic prosperity that in many countries followed World War II. In the United States, the term is commonly used to refer to the generation which demographers have identified with birth years between 1946 to 1964, despite the fact that the U.S. birth rate actually began to decline after 1957. Baby boomers presently make up the lion's share of the political, cultural, industrial and academic leadership class in the United ...

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Crunk music (also spelled Krunk Muzik) is a specific type of hip hop music, based out of the southern United States, particularly on the eastern side of Atlanta, Georgia, and Memphis, Tennessee. Crunk is classified as a subdivision of Dirty South or Southern rap and is an outgrowth of Atlanta-based Miami Bass (and to a lesser degree, New Orleans Bounce). Crunk - Overview. Crunk was originated in the early 1990s but did not become mainstream until the early 2000s. In the year 2003, the crunk genre had ...

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Adam West (born William West Anderson on September 19, 1928 in Walla Walla, Washington) is best known as the actor who played the role of Batman on the original television program that ran from 1966 to 1968. Adam West - Biography. After attending Lakeside School, a prestigious high school in Seattle, he graduated from nearby Whitman College where he majored in literature and psychology and was married. He served two years in the United States Army. He worked as a disc jockey, truck driver, and cowboy ...

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1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). 1963 - Events. 1963 - January. January 1 - CSIRO scientist Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler are found dead, believed to have been poisoned, in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney. Known as the Bogle-Chandler case. January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. January 14 - George Wallace becomes ...

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This article is about the decade starting at the beginning of 2000 and ending at the end of 2009. For the century or millennium starting in 2001, see the links below. 2000s - The decade as a whole. The 2000s decade refers to the years from 2000 to 2009, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. So far, the 2000s has been marked generally with an escalation of the social issues a ...

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2009 (MMIX) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to 5769 and 5770 in the Hebrew Calendar and 1430-1431 in the Islamic Calendar. It is the Bicentennial of the births of Louis Braille, Charles Darwin, Edward Fitzgerald, William Gladstone, Maxim Gorki, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Abraham Lincoln, Felix Mendelssohn, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Template:2009 by topic 2009 - Events. 2009 - January-April. ...

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Damien Rice (born December 7, 1973) is an Irish musician, born in Kildare near Dublin, whose album O was an enormous success, quickly adding him to the roster of notable Irish musicians. Damien Rice - Biography. Rice was originally the singer for Juniper, a rock band with a notable stage show, which released the singles "The World Is Dead" and "Weatherman". On the eve of recording their first full album for Polygram in 1999, Rice became disenchanted with the commercial direction he felt pushed ...

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April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). There are 257 days remaining. April 18 - Events. 1025 - Bolesław I Chrobry is crowned as the first king of Poland. 1042 - Michael V attempts to remain sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire by sending his adoptive mother and co-ruler Zoë of Byzantium to a monastery. 1518 - Bona Sforza is crowned as queen of Poland. 1775 - Two lanterns were hung from the steeple of the ...

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A boy band (American English) or boyband (British English) is a style of pop group featuring between three and six young male singers who are usually also dancers. They also sing R&B songs as well and sometimes hip-hop. Often, they evolve out of church choral groups, or are put together by managers or producers who audition the groups for appearance, dancing, and singing ability, and often seen to be prefabricated. They are similar in concept to Girl groups. Though the term is mostly associated with the 1980s onwards, antec ...

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Vowell was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She earned a B.A. from Montana State University in 1993 and an M.A. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. Vowell received the Music Journalism Award in 1996. Deemed a social observer, Vowell has made public appearances in Amsterdam, Seattle, Aspen, and has made appearances on television shows like Nightline, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Late Show with David Letterman. She also makes regular appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Her w ...

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Sarah Vowell, Sarah Vowell - Background, Sarah Vowell - Bibliography, Sarah Vowell - Radio

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With a reputation for being a funnyman even in school, Jon Stewart moved to New York City in 1986 to try his hand at the comedy club circuit. In 1989, he began hosting Comedy Central's Short Attention Span Theater, and in 1993, due in large part to the support of his friend David Letterman, Stewart started hosting The Jon Stewart Show on MTV, the first talk show on that network. Also in 1993, he was a finalist to replace David Letterman on Late Night, but the position ultimately went to Conan O'Brien. In 1994, Paramount ...

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Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart - Personal background, Jon Stewart - Professional background, Jon Stewart - Bibliography

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Seen today as one of the landmarks in the evolution of television and sketch comedy, SCTV had its share of controversial moments during its run. When the show was picked up by NBC and expanded to ninety minutes, NBC reportedly had wanted several changes to the format (including replacing the stable of "aging" characters like Bobby Bitman with "younger" versions of themselves played by the same actors, and putting most of the stable and recurring characters and sketches in the first forty five minutes of the show while saving experimental pie ...

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Second City Television, Second City Television - Performers, Second City Television - History, Second City Television - Premise, Second City Television - Controversy, Second City Television - Significance, Second City Television - Special and Musical Guests, Second City Television - Features

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Les Claypool was born on September 29th 1963 in Richmond, California, but was raised in El Sobrante, California in a working class family with a history of working in auto-mechanics. Les's parents divorced when he was a young child, but he claims to have had a decent childhood, citing that he was never abused or severly bullied. As a teenager, Claypool was turned on to rock music such as Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix by classmate Kirk Hammett (of Metallica fame). After picking up the bass at the age of fourteen and developing his chop ...

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Les Claypool, Les Claypool - Biography, Les Claypool - Electric Apricot, Les Claypool - Personal Life, Les Claypool - Discography, Les Claypool - with Primus, Les Claypool - with Sausage, Les Claypool - with Les Claypool and The Holy Mackerel, Les Claypool - with Les Claypool's Frog Brigade, Les Claypool - with Oysterhead, Les Claypool - with Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, Les Claypool - Albums Featured, Les Claypool - VHS, Les Claypool - DVD, Les Claypool - TV Theme Songs

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Phish was formed in 1983 at the University of Vermont by guitarists Trey Anastasio and Jeff Holdsworth, bassist Mike Gordon, and drummer Jon Fishman. In 1985, Page McConnell joined on keyboards. A year later, in 1986, Jeff Holdsworth left the group after graduation, thus solidifying the band's classic lineup, which remained unchanged for the rest of their career. In Phish's nascent stages, the band wrote complex progressive rock fugues and mixed them with intense improvisation. These were developed in early practice sessions that have ...

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Phish, Phish - The Beginning, Phish - Climb to the Top, Phish - Cultural Icons, Phish - One More Time, Phish - Band Members 1983-2004, Phish - Their Music, Phish - Discography, Phish - Studio Albums, Phish - Live Albums besides LivePhish series, Phish - Celebrity Fans, Phish - Fan Activities

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The English manga names will be used, with the Japanese original in brackets at their first mention. Japanese names are in Western order, with the surname after the given name, with the exception of Edogawa Rampo (Edogawa is the last name here). At the beginning of the story, 17-year old (16 years in the manga) high school student Jimmy Kudo (Shin'ichi Kudo) becomes the boy, Conan Edogawa. Jimmy Kudo in the beginning of Case Closed is known as a high school student detective. One day, Jimmy goes to a ...

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Case Closed, Case Closed - Story, Case Closed - Characters, Case Closed - Movies, Case Closed - Music, Case Closed - Opening Themes, Case Closed - Ending Themes

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Philbin was named after his father's alma mater Regis High School, a Manhattan Jesuit private school. His father was Irish and his mother Arbëreshë. Philbin grew up as an only child in the Van Nest/Morris Park section of the Bronx. He graduated from Notre Dame in 1953 with a degree in sociology, served in the Navy, then went through a few behind-the-scenes jobs in television and radio before moving into broadcasting. His first talk show was The Regis Philbin Show, on KGTV in San Diego, California. For budgetary reaso ...

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Regis Philbin, Regis Philbin - Biography, Regis Philbin - Early life and career, Regis Philbin - Talk and game show success, Regis Philbin - Other notable appearances on television and film, Regis Philbin - Written and musical works, Regis Philbin - Personal life, Regis Philbin - Regis Philbin in popular culture and other trivia, Regis Philbin - Voice, Regis Philbin - Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Regis Philbin - Miscellaneous, Regis Philbin - Awards and recognition, Regis Philbin - Discography, Regis Philbin - Album, Regis Philbin - Singles

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