1001 Facts About Authors

1. In 1994 Mike Huckabee was re-elected to a full term as lieutenant governor, beating Democratic candidate Charlie Cole Chaffin with nearly 59 percent of the vote.

2. Ernest Hemingway invited friends—including Waldo Peirce, Dos Passos, and Max Perkins—to join him on fishing trips and on an all-male expedition to the Dry Tortugas.

3. Conan Doyle joined Sir Sidney Scott and Frank Podmore on a poltergeist investigation in Devon in 1894.

4. Dolly Parton is the godmother of pop singer and actress Miley Cyrus.

5. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a founding member of the Hampshire Society for Psychical Research in 1889 and joined the London-based Society for Psychical Research in 1893.

6. Rand Paul savaged Mitt Romney over his criticisms of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, declaring that the new senator from Utah is "virtue signaling" to the media and that his critiques of Trump's character are bad for the country and bad for the GOP.

7. In 2010, Senator Rand Paul entered politics by running for a seat in the United States Senate.

8. Ed Schultz is still trying to find a plant known as the "Hanover turnip", mentioned in sales records from the store of a local merchant, John Carter, with limited success.

9. Tom Cruise had church "handlers" accompanying Holmes everywhere, reporting back to Cruise and the church.

10. Lee Child will be appearing on Long Island for an author talk and book signing sponsored by Long Island LitFest and hosted by Huntington's Cinema Arts Centre.

11. Rand Paul suspended his campaign in February 2016, after finishing in fifth place out of 12 Republican candidates at the Iowa caucuses.

12. Ed Schultz left as UND play-by-play man in 2003 to focus on his national radio show.

13. Gabrielle Union appeared in the 2008 film Meet Dave, playing the love interest of Eddie Murphy's character.

14. Drew Brees is happy, no one is talking about his interception.

15. Thomas Jefferson wanted the land but did not feel that the Constitution gave him the authority to buy it.

16. Menachem Begin won reelection as prime minister on June 30, 1981.

17. Reagan Democrats was first elected to the Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild in 1941, serving as an alternate member.

18. In 1978, Menachem Begin received the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Anwar Sadat for their achievement of peace between Israel and Egypt.

19. Menachem Begin married his wife Aliza who died in 1982.

20. Thomas Jefferson opposed this, and the conflict helped lead to his resignation as Secretary of State.

21. Alexander Hamilton continued his legal and business activities in New York City, and was active in ending the legality of the international slave trade.

22. In total, Tom Cruise attended 15 schools in 14 years, including stints in at least two suburban New Jersey towns, including Glen Ridge.

23. New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees shared a clip of how bedtime goes in his house with his kids.

24. Thomas Jefferson persuaded his cousin Richard Bland to spearhead the legislation's passage, but reaction was strongly negative.

25. On 26 August 2008 David Walliams made his stage debut at the Gate Theatre in Dublin opposite Michael Gambon in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, in front of an audience that included Pinter himself.

26. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's brought the place to international fame through her writing.

27. Reagan Democrats began his presidency during the decline of the Soviet Union, and the Berlin Wall fell just ten months after the end of his term.

28. Thomas Jefferson is best known for his role in writing the Declaration of Independence, his foreign service, his two terms as president, and his omnipresent face on the modern nickel.

29. Conan Doyle was staying at the Lyndhurst Grand Hotel during March 1912 and made his most ambitious foray into architecture: sketching the original designs for a third storey extension and altering the front facade to the building.

30. In 1967, Ken Follett was awarded a scholarship into University College London.

31. Joan Lunden is on the board of PassportMD, an online personal health record system that uses Microsoft HealthVault, which allows families to maintain and organize their family health records.

32. In 2018 it was announced that Joe Sugg would be voice actor in the UK version of the film Wonder Park in the role of Gus.

33. Thomas Jefferson received a letter of inquiry in 1780 about the geography, history, and government of Virginia from French diplomat Francois Barbe-Marbois, who was gathering data on the United States.

34. On December 22, 1968, Jeffrey and Ina Garten were married in Stamford and soon relocated to Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

35. Senator Rand Paul ended up raising some $3 million during the primary period.

36. Drew Brees has passed for over 5,000 yards in a season five times—no other NFL quarterback has done so more than once.

37. Greg Iles was born in 1960 in Germany, where his father ran the US Embassy medical clinic during the height of the Cold War.

38. Greg Iles was raised in Natchez, Mississippi, the setting of many of his novels.

39. In support of the bill, Rick Santorum criticized the National Weather Service in September 2005, saying its evacuation warnings for Hurricane Katrina were "insufficient".

40. Drew Brees punched his ticket to Sunday's Pro Bowl in Orlando, but did not make the trip.

41. Tom Cruise has put filming for the Top Gun sequel on hold so he can learn to PILOT his jet fighter stunts.

42. Rand Paul answered that he was "quite happy" with the response.

43. Rand Paul had testified during the three-day trial that he feared for his life as he struggled to breathe after Rene Boucher, an anesthesiologist by trade, slammed into him in their upscale Bowling Green neighborhood in late 2017.

44. Rand Paul became pretty well-known after his almost 13 hour filibuster on the Senate floor.

45. Tom Cruise was bullied regularly in the 15 different schools he attended in 12 years.

46. Tom Cruise was constantly bullied in the schools that he attended.

47. John Muir was given the Stickeen name "Ancoutahan" meaning "adopted chief".

48. Alexander Hamilton assembled a nationwide coalition to garner support for the Administration, including the expansive financial programs Hamilton had made Administration policy and especially the president's policy of neutrality in the European war between Britain and France.

49. In 2012, Mindy Kaling left "The Office" in order to star in her own show, "The Mindy Project", on Fox.

50. Dinesh D'Souza formed Obama's America Foundation with Christopher Williams and Douglas Sain to raise funds for the film and oversee all business, marketing and production.

51. Steve Allen initially produced a version in 1971 that aired locally in Los Angeles and earned three Local Emmy Awards.

52. Thomas Jefferson opposed a national debt, preferring that each state retire its own, in contrast to Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who desired consolidation of various states' debts by the federal government.

53. Conan Doyle ended his response by saying that Holmes would have published facsimiles of this letter in the leading newspapers in both the UK and US, to see if anyone could come forward and identify the handwriting.

54. In May 2012, Warren Buffett said he had avoided buying stock in new social media companies such as Facebook and Google because it is hard to estimate future value.

55. Mindy Kaling shares rare glimpse of her daughter in sweet Halloween photo.

56. Dolly Parton will give older viewers a reason to tune in, and so will a salute to Diana Ross, who will perform.

57. Emma Thompson asks Prince William for kiss at damehood ceremony.

58. Michael Lewis was born on October 15, 1960, to J Thomas Lewis and Diana Monroe.

59. Drew Brees spoke about his surprise in an Instagram post thanking Brittany.

60. Rand Paul made the comments while speaking out against legislation that would prolong the conflict in Syria.

61. Arun Shourie was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1982 and the Padma Bhushan in 1990.

62. On February 1, 2008, Rick Santorum said he would vote for Mitt Romney in the 2008 Republican presidential primary.

63. Tom Cruise is well known as a supporter and a firm believer of "Scientology".

64. Benjamin Franklin eventually became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.

65. Tom Cruise starred as Jack Reacher in the film adaptation of British author Lee Child's 2005 novel One Shot.

66. Chetan Bhagat was the judge of the dance reality show Nach Baliye.

67. Niccolo Machiavelli plays a vital role in the young adult book series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel.

68. Bill Maher says millions of Muslims supported the "Charlie Hebdo" attacksMaher has a long history of being highly critical of religion and, in recent years, of Islam in particular.

69. Dinesh D'Souza introduces Zinn as the most influential historian of the last 50 years.

70. In October 2014, it was announced that Gabrielle Union would be designing T-shirts to bring attention to the Women Are Watching campaign.

71. Ta-Nehisi Coates is the only child in his family without a college degree.

72. Senator Rand Paul suspended his campaign in February 2016, after finishing in fifth place out of 12 Republican candidates at the Iowa caucuses.

73. James Bond is a heavy smoker, at one point smoking 70 cigarettes a day.

74. Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, the capital city of Canada, on November 18, 1939.

75. Mike Huckabee launched a show on Trinity Broadcasting Network in 2017.

76. In 2001, Mike Huckabee was named "Friend of a Taxpayer" by Americans for Tax Reform for his cut in statewide spending.

77. Dolly Parton is the most honored female country performer of all time.

78. Kevin Smith is a filmmaker who has managed to rise in Hollywood through his work in the comedy industry.

79. Warren Buffett sends a $1 billion signal to the market.

80. Warren Buffett called the downturn in the financial sector that started in 2007 "poetic justice".

81. Jake Tapper was passed over again when Stephanopoulous decided he wanted to return to the position.

82. Greg Iles spent most of his youth in Natchez, Mississippi.

83. Kevin Smith formed a comedy troupe in high school and wrote the part of Randal for himself and Dante for former troupe mate Ernest O'Donnell.

84. Greg Iles was born on 1960 and is a novelist who lives in Mississippi.

85. Jorge Luis Borges said his father "tried to become a writer and failed in the attempt", despite the 1921 opus El caudillo.

86. In 2012, Milo Yiannopoulos decided that paying his contributors was unnecessary.

87. Dolly Parton's has had 26 songs reach No 1 on the Billboard country charts, a record for a female artist.

88. Emma Thompson scripted and starred in Sense and Sensibility, which earned her (among other awards) an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay—which makes her the only person to receive Academy Awards for both acting and writing—and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress.

89. David Walliams channels his inner villain for Jonathan Ross' Halloween party as Charlie Brooker goes full Ghostbusters.

90. Stephen King sold them the movie rights to a short story, "Stationary Bike", for $1.

91. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's spelling of the ship's name as Marie Celeste has become more common in everyday use than the original form.

92. Geoffrey Zakarian shows how to DIY vacuum seal meat to prevent freezer burn, as seen on Food Network's The Kitchen.

93. Aaron Sanchez had surgery on his left shoulder, so his throwing should be fine.

94. Drew Brees had amazing records since he joined New Orleans Saints in 2006.

95. In 1860, John Muir attended the state fair in Madison, where he won prizes for his inventions.

96. Ernest Hemingway was the grandfather to two famous actresses, Mariel Hemingway and Margeux Hemingway.

97. Ken Follett currently resides in London where he continues to write bestselling novels.

98. In 2013, Mitch Albom was inducted into the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame and his induction into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame was announced May 2017.

99. Walter Raleigh was sent to organise and divide the spoils of the ship.

100. In 1993, Rick Santorum was one of 17 House Republicans who sided with most Democrats to support legislation that prohibited employers from permanently replacing striking employees.

101. Benjamin Franklin had such influence in US that he was called "The only President of the US who was never President of the US".

102. In February 2010, Nicole Richie expanded her fashion business with a women's line called Winter Kate, her daughter's two middle names.

103. Walter Raleigh attracted the sympathy and friendship of James's eldest son, Henry, who sought his advice on matters of shipbuilding and naval defense.

104. Charles Phoenix started developing different versions of his Retro Slide Shows, typically focusing on various aspects of California life and culture as well as holiday-themed shows and city-specific presentations for events held in locations including Palm Springs, Anaheim, Long Beach and San Francisco.

105. Thomas Jefferson believed in a creator god, an afterlife, and the sum of religion as loving God and neighbors.

106. Dolly Parton was with him the day he passed: "I held his hand, and we prayed", Parton told Knoxville'sNews Sentinel.

107. Paula Poundstone tours the country extensively, performing stand-up comedy in theaters and performing arts centers.

108. In 1919, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings married writer and boating enthusiast Charles Rawlings, and the couple moved to Rochester, New York.

109. In 2007, JK Rowling described having been brought up in the Church of England.

110. Mikhail Gorbachev was widely praised in the West for his pivotal role in ending the Cold War, curtailing the human rights abuses that occurred in the Soviet Union, and tolerating the fall of Marxist–Leninist administrations in eastern and central Europe.

111. President John F Kennedy was concerned with other issues in the early part of his administration, such as the Cold War, Bay of Pigs fiasco, and the situation in Southeast Asia.

112. James Beard Foundation was started in 1986 by Peter Kump, a former student of James Beard and founder of the Institute of Culinary Education.

113. Dolly Parton was with him the day he passed: "I held his hand, and we prayed", Parton told Knoxville'sNews Sentinel.

114. Philip Roth began his literary career shortly after receiving his master's degree in English literature.

115. Thomas Jefferson warned that it would increase British influence and subvert republicanism, calling it "the boldest act [Hamilton and Jay] ever ventured on to undermine the government".

116. Philip Roth holds up the myth of the Great American Novel to the same ridicule as the myth of the Great American Pastime.

117. Drew Brees was named to his fifth career Pro Bowl for his performance in 2010.

118. Gabrielle Union was reported to have signed to the film in March 2008.

119. In 1940, President John F Kennedy completed his thesis, "Appeasement in Munich", about British participation in the Munich Agreement.

120. Zora Neale Hurston's was a Republican who was generally sympathetic to the foreign policy non-interventionism of the Old Right and a fan of Booker T Washington's self-help politics.

121. Dolly Parton has received 46 Grammy Award nominations, tying her with Bruce Springsteen for the most Grammy nominations and positioning her in tenth place overall.

122. Mike Huckabee relaunched the Mike Huckabee show on Trinity Broadcasting Network in 2017.

123. In 1952, Luis Borges produced his best collection of essays Otras inquisiciones.

124. Robert Bly was the first official poet laureate of Minnesota.

125. Senator Rand Paul received the 2014 Distinguished Service Award from the Center for the National Interest for his public policy work.

126. Terry Gross is the second child of Anne and Irving Gross.

127. Zora Neale Hurston began her writing career while at Howard when she wrote her first short story for Stylus, a college literary magazine.

128. On May 29, 2018, Eric Greitens announced that he would resign effective June 1, 2018.

129. In 1996, Tom Cruise starred as the title character in the romantic comedy-drama Jerry Maguire, earning him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor—Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, as well as his second Academy Award nomination.

130. Tom Cruise proposed to Holmes in the early morning of June 17, 2005, on top of Paris' Eiffel Tower.

131. Ron Chernow has written biographies of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, with the former receiving the George Washington Book Prize.

132. Thomas Jefferson attempted to preemptively influence the verdict by telling Congress that Burr's guilt was "beyond question", but the case came before his longtime political foe John Marshall, who dismissed the treason charge.

133. Ed Schultz is the author of "Killer Politics" and "Straight Talk from the Heartland" (2004).

134. Dolly Parton is estimated to be worth a huge $500m.

135. Tom Cruise has suffered from "Developmental Reading Disorder", more commonly known as Dyslexia, as a child.

136. David Baldacci authored a short story, "The Mighty Johns", as part of a 2002 mystery anthology.

137. Ken Follett is active in numerous Stevenage charities and was a governor of Roebuck Primary School for ten years, serving as the Chair of Governors for four of those years.

138. John Muir served as an officer in the United States Coast Survey, a uniformed government service agency.

139. Peggy Noonan was born in the Brooklyn, New York, USBeing a celebrity, She has earned huge respect from her fans.

140. Charles Phoenix had the greatness of American technology to fall back on.

141. Ed Schultz quickly threw to a recorded package, in which RT America reporter Alexey Yaroshevsky wondered how long the "spiraling downfall of sanity" over hacking in the US media would continue.

142. James Patterson said the novel, The President Is Missing, will provide a level of detail that only a former US President can offer.

143. Rand Paul has held a state-issued medical license since moving there in 1993.

144. President John F Kennedy watched King's speech on TV and was very impressed.

145. Ruskin Bond never got married and lives with his adopted family in Mussoorie.

146. Stephen King visited the space while his books and belongings were packed away.

147. Alexander Hamilton was orphaned as a child and taken in by a prosperous merchant.

148. President John F Kennedy defeated Nixon in the 1960 election when votes were counted in the Electoral College, by a margin of 303 to 219.

149. Arthur Conan Doyle had served as a volunteer doctor in the Langman Field Hospital at Bloemfontein between March and June 1900.

150. Emma Thompson is an activist for Palestinians, having been a member of the British-based ENOUGH! coalition that seeks to end the "Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and West Bank".

151. Rand Paul savaged Mitt Romney over his criticisms of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, declaring that the new senator from Utah is "virtue signaling" to the media and that his critiques of Trump's character are bad for the country and bad for the GOP.

152. James Bond was born in Germany to a Scottish father and Swiss mother.

153. Gary Hart founded the American Security Project in 2007 and he started a new blog in 2009.

154. Eric Greitens has announced that he is running for attorney general.

155. Donald Hall rewarded the Rams with his second straight defensive player of the year award.

156. Rand Paul said "big government Republican" Mitt Romney is not helping any cause with his "holier than thou" column that heavily criticized President Trump.

157. Jake Tapper worked briefly for Handgun Control, Inc in 1997.

158. Joan Lunden is involved in various personal projects, such as her Camp Reveille, a summer weekend getaway for women of all ages in Naples, Maine.

159. Eric Greitens believed that the Democrats no longer had the right ideas to stand up for the middle class.

160. The Steve had a circuit board with a chip on it, a DuMont TV set, a Panasonic cassette tape deck and a keyboard.

161. Luis Borges became completely blind by the age of 55.

162. Thomas Jefferson read a wide variety of English classics and political works.

163. Senator Rand Paul never graduated college with an ungraduate degree, but he was accepted to Duke University, one of the best medical schools in the United States, based on his strong MCAT exam score.

164. At that time, Jorge Luis Borges discovered the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer and Gustav Meyrink's The Golem which became influential to his work.

165. Mikhail Gorbachev became a member of the Club of Rome and the Club of Madrid, an independent non-profit organization composed of 81 democratic former presidents and Prime Ministers from 57 different countries.

166. Rick Santorum has consistently held socially conservative views and has advocated "compassionate conservatism".

167. Kevin Smith appeared in the second episode of season two of Veronica Mars, playing a store clerk.

168. Tom Cruise had church "handlers" accompanying Holmes everywhere, reporting back to Cruise and the church.

169. James Bond studied at Eton and Fettes College in Edinburgh, graduated from high school at 17 and was recruited into the Royal Navy.

170. David Baldacci introduces a new series with special FBI agent Atlee Pine, who prefers working in the remote wilds of the West to climbing the career ladder in DC.

171. In 1996, Tom Cruise starred as the title character in the romantic comedy-drama Jerry Maguire, earning him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor—Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, as well as his second Academy Award nomination.

172. Alexander Hamilton was a supporter of the Revolutionary cause at this pre-war stage, although he did not approve of mob reprisals against Loyalists.

173. Warren Buffett demonstrated a knack for financial and business matters early in his childhood.

174. Senator Rand Paul is married to Kelley Senator Rand Paul, a freelance writer.

175. Greg Iles was born in Germany in 1960, where his father ran the US Embassy Medical Clinic during the height of the Cold War.

176. Tom Brokaw made an emotional statement in which he denied making overtures toward Vester.

177. Margaret Atwood said reader questions about the world of The Handmaid's Tale inspired her to revisit the story more than 30 years after the book was originally published, as did the current political climate.

178. Ken Follett was born in Cardiff, Wales on June 5, 1949.

179. In 2018, Milo Yiannopoulos bragged on Instagram and Facebook that he donated $14.88 to Talia Lavin, a Jewish journalist.

180. Tom Cruise is expected to reprise his role as IMF agent Ethan Hunt.

181. Steve Allen turned one of Godfrey's live Lipton tea and soup commercials upside down, preparing tea and instant soup on camera, then pouring both into Godfrey's iconic ukulele.

182. Gabrielle Union reprised her role as Kristen in Think Like a Man Too in 2014, which received mostly negative reviews.

183. Geoffrey Zakarian was born on 25th July 1959 in Worcester, Massachusetts.

184. Reagan Democrats added another 37 House seats in 1964, even as Republicans made inroads in the South.

185. Gabrielle Union was announced in July 2014 as a producer in the Lifetime film With This Ring.

186. The Steve died of respiratory arrest related to the tumor at age 56 on October 5, 2011.

187. David Baldacci was born on August 5, 1960 in Richmond, Virginia.

188. Milo Yiannopoulos organised a method of ranking the most promising technology start-ups in Europe, The Telegraph Tech Start-Up 100, in 2011.

189. Arthur Conan Doyle set up an ophthalmology practice in London.

190. On May 29, 2018, Eric Greitens announced that he would resign effective June 1.

191. Margaret Atwood is writing a sequel to her best-selling 1985 book The Handmaid's Tale.

192. Ed Schultz is the American face—ruddy, beefy, with a megaphone voice—of a Moscow-based media organization that reports the news a little differently than CNN or NBC.

193. Robert Bly published his second collection of poems, The Light Around the Body, in 1968.

194. Alexander Hamilton served as one of the first trustees of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in Clinton, New York, which was renamed Hamilton College in 1812, after receiving a college charter.

195. Dinesh D'Souza is all over the board with his intellectual effort.

196. St John is known as the author of the Gospel of St John and four other books in the New Testament—the three Epistles of John and the Book of Revelation.

197. Zora Neale Hurston's described it as a kind of "birth".

198. In 1989, Kevin Smith co-founded a Christchurch theatresports group, Scared Scriptless, performing live comedy.

199. Dolly Parton has turned down several offers to pose for Playboy magazine, although she did appear on the cover of Playboy's October 1978 issue wearing a Playboy bunny outfit, complete with ears.

200. Senator Rand Paul answered that he was "quite happy" with the response.

201. Ronald Reagan Democrats was the happy warrior and the great communicator.

202. Paula Poundstone has an audition coming up, so it's fitting that we're looking into Looking Good and Feeling Good.

203. President John F Kennedy expressed concern about the plight of the Seneca, and directed government agencies to assist in obtaining more land, damages, and assistance to help mitigate their displacement.

204. Ruskin Bond feels the unexpected there makes it more exciting.

205. Ed Schultz is the author of "Killer Politics" and "Straight Talk from the Heartland" (2004).

206. In 1933, Luis Borges gained an editorial appointment at Revista Multicolor de los Sabados, where he first published the pieces collected as Historia universal de la infamia (A Universal History of Infamy) in 1935.

207. Zora Neale Hurston is lauded for her utilization of folklore, the ripeness and realism of black dialect, the poetic sermon, and the distinct racial flavor of Jonah's Gourd Vine.

208. Arthur Conan Doyle replied that Holmes would have started by examining the letter the Ripper had supposedly sent to the police.

209. Terry Gross talked to him just after his book was published.

210. Alexander Hamilton took the lead in the Federal government's funding of the states' debts, as well as establishing a national bank, a system of tariffs, and friendly trade relations with Britain.

211. Menachem Begin joined the National Unity government as a minister without portfolio and in 1973 became joint chairman of the Likud ("Unity") coalition.

212. Bill Maher called Graham's outspoken support for Kavanaugh as a "performance", claiming that Graham might be eyeing a cabinet position in the Trump administration.

213. Alexander Hamilton now toured New England, again urging northern electors to hold firm for Pinckney in the renewed hope of making Pinckney president; and he again intrigued in South Carolina.

214. Kevin Smith had announced that he would close after his lease expired and Johnson wanted to resign, but eventually relocated to Laser Blazer, a DVD store in Los Angeles.

215. Margaret Atwood continued her exploration of the implications of Canadian literary themes for Canadian identity in lectures such as Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature.

216. In 1997, Mikhail Gorbachev appeared with his granddaughter Anastasia in an internationally screened television commercial for Pizza Hut.

217. Dolly Parton told NPR that the song was inspired by a redheaded bank teller who had a "terrible crush" on her husband.

218. Drew Brees will receive a $25,000 donation from the NFL Foundation to a charity of his choice.

219. Andrew Sullivan was barred for many years from applying for United States citizenship because of his HIV-positive status.

220. Kevin Smith adopted a diet devised by scientist Ray Cronise based on work by Joel Fuhrman, which involves eating a single plant-based food with no added salt or fat for two weeks, then gradually adding additional foods but remaining on an all-vegan diet.

221. Andrew Sullivan is a conservative political commentator, a former editor of The New Republic, and the author or editor of six books.

222. Michael Connelly became an instant success with the publication of his other novels.

223. Drew Brees was ranked 30th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2015.

224. Warren Buffett watched the 2009 game against Oklahoma from the Nebraska sideline, after being named an honorary assistant coach.

225. Dolly Parton told NPR that the song was inspired by a redheaded bank teller who had a "terrible crush" on her husband.

226. Walter Raleigh attracted the sympathy and friendship of James's eldest son, Henry, who sought his advice on matters of shipbuilding and naval defense.

227. John Muir spent time with photographer Carleton Watkins and studied his photographs of Yosemite.

228. Sandra Brown started her writing career in 1981 after her husband dared her to.

229. Mindy Kaling was notably the first woman to join the writers' room on The Office, and while she was clear that the overwhelming majority of her experiences there were positive, she said she amplified lots of her own real-life moments of discrimination and disrespect in Molly's storyline in Late Night.

230. New England writer Donald Hall was a major poet in the lineage of Robert Frost.

231. New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees completed 22-of-25 attempts for 3 touchdowns and 265 passing yards against the Cincinnati Bengals.

232. Dinesh D'Souza was elected as a president of The King's College in 2010.

233. On July 12, 2011, Senator Rand Paul announced that he would forgo seeking another term in Congress in order to focus on his presidential bid.

234. Louise Penny currently lives in Knowlton, a small village in Quebec's Eastern Townships about 100 km from Montreal.

235. Drew Brees was educated at Purdue University where he had an amazing college football career.

236. Mindy Kaling said one of her worst job experiences was as a production assistant for three months on the Crossing Over With John Edward psychic show.

237. Kevin Smith attended the Vancouver Film School for the four months, where he met with the longtime collaborator Scott Mosier and even Dave Klein but he left halfway through the course in order to save the money to make his own first film.

238. On November 30, 2006, Ed Schultz announced he was moving to the "prime real estate" time slot from noon to 3 pm Eastern Time, to compete directly with Rush Limbaugh whose show is broadcast in that time slot.

239. Benjamin Franklin is the only founding father that signed all four key documents that led to the formation of the United States.

240. Drew Brees was fourth in Heisman Trophy voting in 1999 and third in 2000.

241. Tom Cruise is feeling the need: the need for a sequel.

242. Steve Allen was a Democrat; his wife was a Republican.

243. Alexander Hamilton helped ratify the Constitution by writing 51 of the 85 installments of The Federalist Papers, which are still used as one of the most important references for Constitutional interpretation.

244. Benjamin Franklin bequeathed £1,000 each to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia, in trust to gather interest for 200 years.

245. Thomas Jefferson transferred the state capital from Williamsburg to Richmond, and introduced measures for public education, religious freedom, and revision of inheritance laws.

246. Stephen King is a prolific and immensely popular author of horror fiction.

247. Alexander Hamilton wrote the first paper signed as Publius, and all of the subsequent papers were signed under the name.

248. Kevin Smith played himself in the video game Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham.

249. In 2012, Mindy Kaling left "The Office" in order to star in her own show, "The Mindy Project", on Fox.

250. Jorge Luis Borges lived and studied in Switzerland and Spain as a young student.

251. On 17 May 1977 the Likud, headed by Menachem Begin, won the Knesset elections by a landslide, becoming the biggest party in the Knesset.

252. In 2002, Gabrielle Union had the leading role in another black ensemble comedy, Deliver Us from Eva.

253. Geoffrey Zakarian earns a huge amount as a Chef which is determined to be the main source of his net worth.

254. Martin Luther was buried in the Castle Church in Wittenberg, beneath the pulpit.

255. Mikhail Gorbachev was struck by how openly West Europeans offered their opinions and criticised their political leaders, something absent from the Soviet Union, where people did not feel safe speaking so openly.

256. President John F Kennedy increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam by a factor of 18 over President Dwight D Eisenhower.

257. In January 1996, Mike Huckabee campaigned in televised ads paid for by the Republican National Committee and the Arkansas Republican Party against a highway referendum.

258. Ken Follett won admission in 1967 to University College London, where he studied philosophy and became involved in centre-left politics.

259. On March 1, 1945, President John F Kennedy retired from the Navy Reserve on physical disability and was honorably discharged with the full rank of lieutenant.

260. Thomas Jefferson was sworn in by Chief Justice John Marshall at the new Capitol in Washington, DC on March 4, 1801.

261. Along the way, Paula Poundstone attempts to explains existence through her kaleidoscopic perspective, and Adam tries to interject some rationality.

262. Tom Brokaw was succeeded by David Gregory in December 2008.

263. Benjamin Franklin donated £200 towards the development of Franklin College.

264. Kevin Smith remembered the great Stan Lee in an emotional tribute at an event celebrating the late comic book icon this week.

265. In 2015, Stephen King was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the United States National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature.

266. Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama.

267. Margaret Atwood confirmed on Twitter that the book will be released on September 10, 2019.

268. Dolly Parton's was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her music in 1984, located at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California; a star on the Nashville Star Walk for Grammy winners; and a bronze sculpture on the courthouse lawn in Sevierville.

269. Ed Schultz now hosts RT America's signature evening newscast, "News With Ed Schultz", produced in a studio located three blocks from the White House.

270. Benjamin Franklin wrote popular essays on behalf of the colonies.

271. Ta-Nehisi Coates is working on a novel about an African American from Chicago who moves to Paris.

272. Martin Luther made certain concessions to the Saxon, who was a relative of the Elector, and promised to remain silent if his opponents did.

273. Paula Poundstone is No 88 on Comedy Central's 2004 list of the 100 greatest stand-ups of all time.

274. Mindy Kaling currently stars on The Mindy Project, which used to air on FOX, but she is a fan of another popular series on the network.

275. Kevin Smith is the owner of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, a comic book store in Red Bank, New Jersey that is the subject of the reality-television show Comic Book Men.

276. Mike Huckabee is a member of the Republican Governors Association and former chairman of the National Governors Association.

277. Greg Iles was born in 1960 in Stuttgart, Germany, where his physician father ran the US Embassy Medical Clinic.

278. Michael Lewis served 28 years with the department, the longest-tenured LFR member.

279. Thomas Jefferson raised two sons, of whom Thomas Jefferson was the eldest, and six daughters.

280. Tom Brokaw worked at the Black Hills Ordnance Depot and helped construct Fort Randall Dam; his job often required the family to resettle throughout South Dakota during Brokaw's early childhood.

281. Senator Rand Paul was included in Time magazine's world's 100 most influential people, for 2013 and 2014.

282. Arthur Conan Doyle felt grievously exploited by Ward Lock as an author new to the publishing world and he left them.

283. David Walliams hinted at being pansexual in the book Inside Little Britain, but said he did not like to be labelled by that word.

284. Kevin Smith is the owner of the Secret Stash of Jay and Silent Bob.

285. Arthur Conan Doyle was so happy to share many of his wife's activities that his literary output slowed down considerably after his marriage.

286. Aaron Sanchez began cooking at an early age, helping his mother prepare traditional Mexican foods for her catering business.

287. Rand Paul is spending much of his time on Wednesday pushing back against Mitt Romney, tweeting a defense in the morning, then holding the conference call and planning to appear on national TV.

288. At the age of 54, Tom Cruise is one of the biggest movie stars today.

289. In 2012, Emma Thompson wrote The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit as an addition to the Peter Rabbit series by Beatrix Potter to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

290. Rand Paul savaged Mitt Romney over his criticisms of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, declaring that the new senator from Utah is "virtue signaling" to the media and that his critiques of Trump's character are bad for the country and bad for the GOP.

291. In 2007, Michael Lewis wrote a piece mocking the worrywarts trying to sound the alarm at Davos.

292. President John F Kennedy was closely tied to popular culture, emphasized by songs such as "Twisting at the White House".

293. Charles Phoenix has further said to have never driven a modern car, saying "classic cars, American cars are in my blood".

294. In 1996, Tom Cruise starred as the title character in the romantic comedy-drama Jerry Maguire, earning him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor—Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, as well as his second Academy Award nomination.

295. Rick Santorum reflected on his last year in the Senate as one spent talking a lot about Iran, and was characterized by The Atlantic Wire as an "extreme hawk" in his approach to Iran.

296. New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees calls for a 2-point conversion after a touchdown against the Indianapolis Colts during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl XLIV football game in Miami, Sunday, Feb 7, 2010.

297. In 1999, Dolly Parton was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

298. Bill Maher is an Emmy-award winning producer who hosts Real Time on HBO and produced the 8th highest grossing documentary ever, Religuous.

299. Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama.

300. Senator Rand Paul is a critic of the federal government's fiscal policies, especially the existence of the Federal Reserve and the tax policy, as well as the military–industrial complex, and the War on Drugs.

301. Nicole Richie began dating guitarist Joel Madden of the band Good Charlotte in 2006.

302. President John F Kennedy had a crew of twelve men whose mission was to stop Japanese ships from delivering supplies to their soldiers.

303. Drew Brees was ranked 16th by his peers on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2017.

304. Michael Connelly says he prefers listening to rock and roll, jazz, and blues.

305. Geoffrey Zakarian was named the winner of The Next Iron Chef in December 2011, defeating Elizabeth Falkner in the season finale.

306. Martin Luther was made provincial vicar of Saxony and Thuringia by his religious order in 1515.

307. Mindy Kaling wrote and starred in the Sundance crowd-pleaser "Late Night", directed by Nisha Ganatra.

308. Lee Child was born James Grant on October 29, 1954, in Coventry, England.

309. Dolly Parton's was on The Love Boat in 1977, a short cameo in episode 13 as the boat captain's silent wife.

310. Bill Maher holds the record for the most Emmy nominations without a win, having been nominated on 22 occasions and not winning once.

311. John Muir agreed to use his influence to introduce a bill to Congress to make the Yosemite area into a national park, modeled after Yellowstone National Park.

312. Menachem Begin wrote two books during his life: The Revolt, about the struggle against the British from 1944 to 1948, and White Nights: The Story of a Prisoner in Russia.

313. Drew Brees was awarded Purdue's Leonard Wilson Award for unselfishness and dedication.

314. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is the author responsible for one of the most popular fictional characters in history: Sherlock Holmes.

315. Reagan Democrats was twice elected President of the Screen Actors Guild—the labor union for actors—where he worked to root out Communist influence.

316. Dolly Parton began performing as a child, singing on local radio and television programs in the East Tennessee area.

317. Bill Maher interviews alt-right darling Milo YiannopoulosAfter Milo's speech at Berkeley University was canceled because of protests that included a few small fires and thrown objects, Maher brought the alt-right idol in for an interview.

318. Ernest Hemingway returned home early in 1919 to a time of readjustment.

319. Drew Brees had his sons do a delightful catching drill before bed.

320. Drew Brees has met Dez Bryant on several occasions, including in the Pro Bowl.

321. In 2014, Rand Paul called for a spiritual revivial in America.

322. Joe Sugg will soon be entertaining you every Saturday after being named as the fourth contestant preparing to take on Strictly Come Dancing.

323. Zora Neale Hurston influenced many writers, forever cementing her place in history as one of the foremost female writers of the 20th century.

324. Kevin Smith revealed that the shot from the trailer of Alfred expressing gratitude to a mysterious figure was not directed at Superman, as many thought, but at Green Lantern.

325. In 2005, Mike Huckabee was named one of Times top 5 governors, honored as one of Governing magazine's Public Officials of the Year, and given the American Public Health Association's Distinguished Public Health Legislator of the Year Award.

326. John Muir was the third of seven children born to Daniel and Ann Muir.

327. David Baldacci is a contributing editor of Parade Magazine, which has a readership of over 75 million.