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26 unusual facts about America’s got Talent


Adam Wurtzel

Wurtzel is also an accomplished producer, having worked on major reality programming television shows such as Celebrity Apprentice, Kitchen Nightmares, America's Got Talent, and Jerseylicious.

Alexis Jordan discography

Jordan rose to fame when she finished as a semi-finalalist on the first season of America's Got Talent in 2006.

Alison Holloway

She also worked as director or producer for Fox's network primetime series The Swan and "Kitchen Nightmares", NBC's "America's Got Talent", Court TV's documentary film, Death of a Beatle; Fox Television’s Bizarre World specials; produced specials for Court TV and Animal Planet.

Andy Walmsley

Later, he moved into television set design, developing the set for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, So You Think You Can Dance, and America's Got Talent.

Annaleigh Ashford

However, even following a national television broadcast on America's Got Talent, it was announced that Ashford and her colleague Michael Longoria were no longer in the cast of the show.

Art Munson

Munson is currently writing and producing music for TV some of which have appeared on Oprah, America's Got Talent, Entertainment Tonight and ABC World News.

Arthur Nakane

Arthur Nakane (born circa 1937 in Japan) is a Los Angeles-based musician/songwriter and screenwriter, best known for being the subject of the 2000 documentary film Secret Asian Man and also being a star on the 2010 TV show America's Got Talent.

Busty Heart

On July 1, 2008, she demonstrated her "talents" on the third season of America's Got Talent, and received unanimous "No" votes.

Cast in Bronze

Cast in Bronze recently appeared on NBC's summer reality talent show America's Got Talent where he was selected by the judges to compete in the YouTube Snapple Special.

Dennis Cagara

Cagara's older brother Sunny is an entertainer, who participated in Talent 2009, the Danish version of America's Got Talent.

Garik Martirosyan

He hosted the first two seasons of "Minuta Slavy", Russian version of America's Got Talent on Channel One.

Grandma Lee

In 2009, at age 75, Lee participated on the reality series America's Got Talent.

Jump in My Car

Hasselhoff also sang this song on an episode of the TV show America's Got Talent.

Leonid the Magnificent

Leonid became known nationwide after his appearances on the first season of America's Got Talent in 2006.

Marco Schreyl

From 20 October to 3 November 2007 he was the host of the RTL show Das Supertalent (German version of America's Got Talent) and since 20 October 2008 together with Daniel Hartwich.

Maris Slezins

Has received the title of “Latvian Golden Talents” together with the street workout team (the format of the show is identical with America's Got Talent).

Matt Kunitz

After six years at NBC Universal and six at Endemol, It was announced on March 20, 2012 that Kunitz would join FremantleMedia North America in a multi-year overall deal with the company behind Fox’s American Idol and The X Factor and NBC’s America's Got Talent to develop and produce new unscripted shows.

Mollee Gray

She was also featured in the TV series Suburgatory, in the episode "Black Thai" and was a dancer in reality TV Shows such as America's Got Talent, The Voice and Dancing With The Stars.

Music Under New York

Possibly the most well-known of them is Alice Tan Ridley, a gospel singer who was featured on season 5 of America's Got Talent.

Pet Star

One contestant from Pet Star, Smithfield the painting pig appeared on America's Got Talent.

Prelude to a Dream

On August 10, 2010, Evancho performed on a special YouTube quarter-final edition of the fifth season of America's Got Talent.

Nine months later, after Evancho's first performance on America's Got Talent, the album charted in August 2010 on the Billboard 200 at #121 and at #2 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart.

Rappin' Granny

Smallwood was a contestant on the NBC television series America's Got Talent who qualified August 16, 2006 season finale for the one-million-dollar grand prize.

The Original Amateur Hour

The show is a progenitor of later, similar programs such as Star Search, American Idol and America's Got Talent.

Walk of shame

In reality television programs like The Weakest Link, Fear Factor and Survivor, America's Got Talent, etc. the "walk of shame" describes an eliminated contestant's departure from the competition.

Want U Back

On 25 July 2012 Lloyd made her US television debut after a performance on an America's Got Talent results show.


2008 College Football All-America Team

The 2008 College Football All-America Team is composed of the following All-American first teams: American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), Walter Camp Football Foundation, The Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Pro Football Weekly, ESPN, CBS Sports, College Football News, Rivals.com, and Scout.com.

A-List Listings

Hosted by David Burtka, the series showcases America's most exclusive and extravagant homes.

ACEC

American Council of Engineering Companies, a representative of America's engineering industry

Achalasia

However, a small proportion occurs secondary to other conditions, such as esophageal cancer or Chagas disease (an infectious disease common in South America).

Allen Martin

He has appeared as a guest on several local and national radio and television broadcasts including Dateline, 20/20, America’s Black Journal and the Tom Joyner Morning Show.

Anna's Hummingbird

Anna's Hummingbirds are found along the western coast of North America, from southern Canada to northern Baja California, and inland to southern Arizona.

Any Bonds Today?

Barry Wood introduced the song (along with another Berlin composition called "Arms for the Love of America") on Arsenal Day, June 10, 1941, at the War College in Washington, D.C.; he also recorded the song in the same week for RCA Victor.

Azerbaijan America Alliance

Congressmen Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Dan Boren (D-OK) serve as the co-Chairs of the Caucus and are exceptionally supportive of the Azerbaijani community in America.

Betty Lou Varnum

Although she had never been in a television studio before and had only been on the job for two days, McVay took over as host of “The Magic Window”, which would become America's longest-running local children's program.

Bholu Brothers

He has suffered defeat at the hands of Kala Pahalwan " the Lion of Punjab" during the 50's, Big Bill Verna and the 3 times world Judo champion Anton Geesink in South America in 1968.

Big Two-Hearted River

In January 1925, while wintering in Schruns, Austria, waiting for a response from query letters written to friends and publishers in America, Hemingway submitted the story to be published in his friend Ernest Walsh's newly established literary magazine This Quarter.

Charlie Major

Five major Canadian Country Music Awards followed, along with songwriting honours from SOCAN, and a BMI Award in 1993 for "Backroads", recorded by Ricky Van Shelton in 1991 on his Backroads album, as the “Most Performed Song in America.”

Chris Iijima

He, Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto, and "Charlie" Chin, were the members of the group Yellow Pearl; their 1973 album, A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America, (originally recorded on Paredon Records now Smithsonian Folkways was an important part of the development of Asian American identity in the early 1970s.

Cranbury, New Jersey

Jan Morris (born 1926), Welsh travel writer and historian, lived in Cranbury for several months in the 1950s whose impressions of the town are recorded in the book Coast to Coast: A Journey Across 1950s America.

Emil Norlander

Among those recording his songs in America were Ingeborg Laudon, Bert Leman, Gösta Nyström, Elis Olson-Ellis, Hjalmar Peterson, Calle Sjöquist and Charles G. Widdén.

Enki Bilal

Published in North America by Got Game Entertainment in August 2008, the game is a "point and click" adventure for the PC; however, the Lead Designer was Benoit Sokal and not Bilal himself, who was the art designer, along with Yoshitaka Amano for the upcoming video game Beyond Good & Evil 2.

F. aurea

Ficus aurea, the Florida strangler fig, golden fig or higuerón, a tree species native to Florida, the northern and western Caribbean, southern Mexico and Central America south to Panama

Frank Kratovil

A "Super PAC" group called The Concerned Taxpayers of America paid $150,000 for ads attacking Kratovil, and $300,000 for ads attacking Peter DeFazio of Oregon.

G. macrophyllum

Geum macrophyllum, the largeleaf avens, a flowering plant found In Northern America

Gray squirrel

The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), from the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; introduced into Britain, Ireland, western North America, Italy, and South Africa

Heart Support of America

It was listed as one of "America's worst charities" in a 2013 Tampa Bay Times/CNN/Center for Investigative Reporting report because of its fundraising and spending practices.

Heinrich Karl Beyrich

In September 1834, while on an expedition through North America, he became ill and died at Fort Gibson, located in the present-day state of Oklahoma.

Hendrick van Rensselaer

Charles W. van Rensselaer (1823—1857), First Officer SS Central America

Henrietta Leaver

Years later, discussion of Leaver’s controversial nude statue would return to prominence when Vanessa Williams lost her Miss America title, by comparing Leaver not being invited back to crown her successor as she had “posed for a nude statue” – despite wearing a bathing suit while posing, with her grandmother present and with no knowledge that the artwork would display her naked.

International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference

The location of the conference switched between North America and Europe until 2006 when the venue was located in Cairns, Australia.

Internet America

Internet America was headquartered in One Dallas Centre in Downtown Dallas.

Kara Saun

After Project Runway, Saun was costume designer for the hit WB series What I Like About You, starring Amanda Bynes and Jennie Garth, designed for the America’s Next Top Model Campaign 5 advertisement, and designed costumes for various TV series and pilots, such as UPN’s R U the Girl, the ABC sitcom Notes from the Underbelly and MTV's Celebrity Rap Superstar.

KDK Factory

In 2013, the company distributed Mohsen Makhmalbaf's feature film, The Gardener in theatrically in North America along with a number of other films via VOD.

Kudzu in the United States

Kudzu was intentionally introduced to North America by the Soil Erosion Service and Civilian Conservation Corp in 1876 for the purpose of controlling soil erosion in Pennsylvania.

Lee Caplin

Caplin is co-owner of Keystone Studios the successor to America's first motion picture studio, founded by Mack Sennett in 1912.

Lezlie Deane

In the 1990s she was recruited by producers Peter Rafelson and Michael Lewis to join the dance-pop group Fem2fem, and toured Europe and North America as an opening act for Nine Inch Nails (NIN) and Marilyn Manson.

Lisa Bluder

She coached two Academic All-America Players of the Year in current Hawkeye Associate Head Coach Jan Jensen (1991) and Tricia Wakely (1996).

Maritime archaeology

Salt water provides for greater organic activity than freshwater, and in particular, the shipworm, terredo navalis, lives only in salt water, so some of the best preservation in the absence of sediments has been found in the cold, dark waters of the Great Lakes in North America and in the (low salinity) Baltic Sea (where the Vasa was preserved).

Maureen Fleming

Fleming has performed in North America, Europe, and Asia, and collaborated in her multimedia works with playwright David Henry Hwang, composer Philip Glass, photographer Lois Greenfield, and ikebana artist Gaho Taniguchi.

Najbolji hrvatski tamburaši

After a tour of America organized by the Croatian Fraternal Union, the band started to compose more music about Croatia.

One Day, All Children

One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way (ISBN 1586481797) is the first book by Wendy Kopp, CEO and Founder of Teach For America.

PAL-M

Walter Bruch, inventor of PAL, explains Brazil's choice of PAL against these odds by an advertising campaign Telefunken and Philips carried out across South America in 1972, which included colour test broadcasts of popular shows (done with TV Globo) and technical demonstrations with executives of television stations.

Percy Ellsworth

Ellsworth attended Southampton High School in Courtland, Virginia, where he was a Super Prep All-American as a senior.

Ray Steele

Peter Sauer (1900-1949), used the ring name while wrestling in America

Robert J. Marshall

During his leadership, he played a pivotal role in the merger of his Lutheran Church in America with the American Lutheran Church and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Sega Meganet

Sega's 16-bit console, the Sega Genesis (known as Mega Drive in most areas outside of North America) was released in Japan on October 29, 1988, though the launch was overshadowed by Nintendo's release of Super Mario Bros. 3 a week earlier.

Souper Bowl of Caring

The Souper Bowl of Caring utilizes Super Bowl weekend in America to mobilize young people to fight hunger and poverty in their local communities.

Spanish-based creole languages

Chavacano is also spoken in Cavite City and in parts of Ternate, Cavite and Sabah, Malaysia nearest to the Philippines, and even in Brunei and Latin America, because of recent migrations.

Strawberry tree

Arbutus, the genus in the Ericaceae family to which Arbutus unedo belongs, native to Europe and temperate North America

Sunshine Hockey League

Kelly Dyer, one of five females to ever play professional hockey in North America, played in the SuHL with the West Palm Beach Blaze from 1993 to 1995.

Warren Smith

Warren J. Smith (1922–2008), president of the Optical Society of America, 1980

William Greaves

Since then, Greaves has produced numerous works, including From These Roots, Nationtime: Gary, Where Dreams Come True, Booker T.Washington: Life and Legacy, Frederick Douglass: An American Life, Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?, The Deep North, and Ida B. Wells: An American Odyssey, which was narrated by Nobel Prize in Literature and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison.

Winnipeg General Strike

The Canadian prime minister attended the conference at Versailles and was concerned solely for his government, due to the Russian revolution that began more than a year before the settlement and concern that it would potentially spread to North America.

Winter Moth

:In North America, "Winter Moth" usually denotes the closely related Operophtera bruceata, but may also mean the less close relative Erannis tiliaria (Linden Looper).

X-files unit

It contained information about a series of murders that occurred in Northwest America during World War II, seven of which took place in Browning, Montana.