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6 unusual facts about Jack O'Brien


Jack O'Brien

Philadelphia Jack O'Brien (1878–1942), American Boxer, former light heavyweight boxing champion of the world

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Young Jack O'Brien (unknown), American Boxer, younger brother of Philadelphia Jack O'Brien

Meri Utrio

Jack O'Brien: Silver Chief, Dog of the North (translation to Finnish 1957)

Jack O'Brien: Silver Chief to the Rescue (translation to Finnish 1957)

Jack O'Brien: The Return of Silver Chief (translation to Finnish 1958)


Aidan O'Brien

The Coolmore operation is renowned for high priced yearling purchases at the Keeneland September Yearling Sales and elsewhere.

Anglicisation of names

Ó Briain has often become O'Brien, Ó Rothláin became Rowland, Ó Néill became O'Neill and some surnames like Ó Súilleabháin may be shortened to just O'Sullivan or Sullivan.

Barlanark

Others include the Swansea football player Steven Dobbie, West Brom's Graham Dorrans, and Michelle O'Brien who stars in the TV show River City.

Barry O'Brien

Ace London, with John Worsley, Kaj Melendez, and Mirza Javed (Fleetway Publications, 1962; Cuahtemoc Publishing Ltd, 2011) (ISBN 978-0957032101)

Carter Brown

In the early 1980s, Yates and Richard O'Brien of The Rocky Horror Show fame wrote a musical of The Stripper, described in classic Carter Brown terminology as ‘the girl who says it all from the neck down’.

Chad Clark

A music video with new rock act Heaven Below was released in January 2008 featuring Clark, Marty O' Brien (Tommy Lee, Celine Dion, Disturbed) and Patrick Kennison (3-Faced, The Union Underground).

Cheetah reintroduction in India

Stephen J O'Brien, world's leading conservation geneticist and Chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA, has clarified that there is no significant genetic difference between the African and the Iran's Asiatic cheetah, as per genetic research carried out by him African and Indian cheetahs were only separated just some 5,000 years ago which is not enough for a sub-species level differentiation.

Chris Robson

Chris has also played Adonis in the 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo at the Lyric Hammersmith, a Geordie in Lost and Found at the Hackney Empire and taken the lead of John O’Brien in a national tour of Catherine Cookson’s The Fifteen Streets.

Corey O'Brien

In the Democratic primary, O'Brien finished with the second-highest vote total, narrowly ahead of former county chief of staff Elizabeth Randol, but behind the top vote getter, former State Representative James Wansacz.

Dennis O'Brien

Dennis M. O'Brien (born 1952), former Speaker, PA House of Representatives, and member, 167th District

Dorothy Short

She often appeared alongside her husband in various 'B' pictures and the Pete Smith series of comedy shorts, in which O'Brien played the lead on many occasions during the 1940s.

Evelyn Toulmin

The son of Reverend Frederick Bransby Toulmin and Katherine O'Brien (sister of the 13th Baron Inchiquin), he was born at Hatfield Peverel, Essex, and educated at the King's School, Oxford.

Fritz Springmeier

He has endorsed the plausibility of Project Monarch, a purported Central Intelligence Agency mind control project whose conjectured existence is based only on the testimony of Cathy O'Brien under hypnosis.

Geoffrey O'Brien

His mother, Margaret O'Brien, née Owens, was a theater actress, and his father was Joseph O'Brien, one of the original WMCA Good Guys.

Grammy Award for Best American Roots Song

Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott – Keep Your Dirty Lights On (performed by Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott)

Hero and the Terror

Danny O'Brien (Chuck Norris) is a cop who likes to work alone that never waits for his back up.

Irish nationalism

O'Brien's attainment of the 1903 Wyndham Land Act (the culmination of land agitation since the 1880s) abolished landlordism, and made it easier for tenant farmers to purchase lands, financed and guaranteed by the government.

Jeff Tobolski

Additionally, he received endorsements from numerous other officials in the district including U.S. Representative Dan Lipinski State Senators Don Harmon, Tony Munoz and Martin Sandoval, State Representatives Elizabeth Hernandez, Karen Yarbrough and Michael Zalewski, President of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Terrence J. O'Brien and twelve local mayors.

Jessie Malakouti

In June 2011, Jessie and the Toy Boys released an EP titled, Show Me Your Tan Lines, and made her network television debut on the Conan O'Brien Show.

Jimbo Mathus

Over the years they also performed on television programs, including The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Letterman, Conan O'Brien and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve in 1998.

John P. O'Brien

Although he is credited with expanding the city's ability to collect taxes, restoring order to the city's finances, and trimming the budget, O'Brien was defeated for re-election in a three-way race by the colorful Republican-City Fusion Party candidate, Fiorello H. La Guardia, in November 1933.

Kirsten O'Brien

In the first episode, which aired in February 2010, O'Brien won when she beat Mellor driving a Romanian TR-85 combat tank.

Kyle Mooney

Mooney, along with John Milhiser, Michael Patrick O'Brien, Noël Wells, Brooks Wheelan, and his comedy partner and friend, Beck Bennett, joined the thirty-ninth season of Saturday Night Live to fill the void left by the recent departures of Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, and Jason Sudeikis.

Lapwing Publications

These include: Janet Shepperson, James Simmons, Robert Greacen, Padraic Fiacc, Michael Fanning, Des O’Grady, John Liddy, Jean O’Brien, Niall McGrath, Fred Johnston, Maurice Harmon, Gerry McDonnell, Hugh McFadden, Jack Holland, Todd Swift, Patrick Chapman, Jan Oskar Hansen and Adam Rudden.

Mark Schatz

Mark Schatz (born April 23, 1955) is an American bassist, banjoist, mandolinist, and clogger who has recorded and toured with artists such as albums for artists such as Bela Fleck, Nickel Creek, Jerry Douglas, Maura O'Connell, Tony Rice, John Hartford, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, and Tim O'Brien.

Marrowbone Lane

His second-in-command was Cathal Brugha, and other participants who achieved later prominence in one way or another were W. T. Cosgrave, Joseph McGrath and Dennis O'Brien.

McCall's

McCall's published fiction by such well-known authors as Alice Adams, Ray Bradbury, Gelett Burgess, Willa Cather, Jack Finney, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Barbara Garson, John Steinbeck, Tim O'Brien, Anne Tyler and Kurt Vonnegut.

Michael H. O'Brien

O'Brien's district contains such Philadelphia landmarks as Independence Hall (United States), the Liberty Bell, South Street, and Penn Treaty Park.

Mickey O'Brien

Currently, she is also one half of Tragic Toys, a band formed with her boyfriend of ten years, actor and musician, Jim Sturgess.

Mountain Stage

Over the years, the show has featured such international luminaries as Phish, Barenaked Ladies, Galactic, Bruce Hornsby, the Derek Trucks Band, Chris Thile, Bell X-1, Judy Collins, They Might Be Giants, Norah Jones, Hubert Sumlin & Pinetop Perkins, Charles Brown, Martina McBride, Little Big Town, Amos Lee, Joan Baez, Jakob Dylan and Regina Spektor, as well as Kathy Mattea, Tim O'Brien and over a hundred West Virginia artists.

Nancy Glass

When not overseeing her company, Nancy Glass Productions, Glass has appeared as a guest or guest-host on such programs as The Daily Show, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNN Larry King Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, CBS Morning News, Hollywood Squares, Court TV, MSNBC and as a host on WOR-radio in New York City.

No Nay Never

Ridden again by Rosario, No Nay Never started the 4/1 second favourite behind the Aiden O'Brien-trained Coach House in a field of fourteen runners.

O'Brien Press

The O'Brien Press is notable for launching the career of international, bestselling author, Eoin Colfer, publishing the "Benny Books" and The Wish List, and have also published The General by Paul Williams, which was made into a major film by John Boorman in 1998.

Phaedrig O'Brien, 17th Baron Inchiquin

He had no children, so the peerage was inherited by his nephew, Conor.

Philadelphia Jack O'Brien

Nat Fleischer, founder and editor of The Ring Magazine, ranked O'Brien as the No. 2 All-Time Light Heavyweight, and Charley Rose ranked him as the No. 3 All-Time Light Heavyweight.

Short Fat Fannie

He would sing the song often while touring as the Hawks, and even played a version of it on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 1993.

Stephen O'Brien

He was born in Mtwara, Tanzania and educated at Loretto School in Mombasa, at the Handbridge School (Chester), the Heronwater School (Abergele), Sedbergh School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Stuart Dickinson

O'Brien stated that Dickinson had got it "completely wrong", believing the Italian tight-head prop, Martin Castrogiovanni was boring in on his opposite.

Terence Albert O'Brien

Major General Purcell, Father Wolf and O'Brien were brought before a court martial and ordered for execution by General Henry Ireton.

The Casuals

Bob O'Brien - drums - (born Robert O'Brien, 26 September 1944, Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland)

The Sun Came Out

Contributors to the project include 7 Worlds Collide's 2001 alumni Johnny Marr, Ed O'Brien, Sebastian Steinberg, Phil Selway, Lisa Germano, Tim Finn and Liam Finn; as well as Don McGlashan, Bic Runga, Glenn Richards, KT Tunstall and Wilco members Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche and Pat Sansone.

The Water Coolers

The actors in the revolving cast have appeared on and off Broadway, in television and radio commercials, in such TV shows as Law & Order, Rescue Me, General Hospital, All My Children, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien and in major comedy clubs and concert halls across the country.

Things We Do

Indigenous was featured on broadcast shows such as NPR's All Things Considered, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, CBS Saturday Morningand Austin City Limits.

Thomas O'Brien

Thomas D. O'Brien (1859–1935), co-founder of William Mitchell College of Law

Timothy O'Keeffe

O'Keeffe was instrumental in the republication of Flann O'Brien's novel At Swim-Two-Birds in 1959 as well as the posthumous publication of O'Brien's The Third Policeman in 1967; had it not been for O'Keeffe's determined efforts, the books would largely be unknown today.

Tom Agna

He has also written for a number of comedies which include, the "Chris Rock Show", "Late Night With Conan O'Brien", "MADtv", "The George Lopez Show", "Weekends at the DL", and for the documentary "P.Diddy present the Bad Boys of Comedy".

Tudor conquest of Ireland

However, this method was successful in some areas, notably in Thomond, where it was supported by the ruling O'Brien dynasty.

Wild River State Park

The park is managed to provide quieter, more nature-oriented recreation as a counterpoint to the busier William O'Brien and Interstate State Parks downstream.

Youthful Praise

Youthful Praise continued expanding their borders with television appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Stellar Awards, and Bobby Jones Gospel.


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