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(28,063 posts)419. Gram Parsons was born Ingram Cecil Connor lll
When he was 12, His mother, Avis, married Robert Parsons, who adopted him and his younger sister..they took his surname.
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Ted Knight (Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka) was the first uniformed soldier in Berlin
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#112
Yes, he was a hit-man, and he received a life sentence for that 1979 killing.
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Steven Van Zant, who played Sylvio Dante on The Sopranos, also plays guitar & mandolin
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Andy Griffth played Lonsome Rhodes' beater guitar on The Andy Griffith Show
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Steve Jobs modified his diet to primarily fruits and vegetables believing that it would reduce body
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Years ago, there was a story about the Prime Minister of India drinking his own urine every day.
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The character "Basil Fawlty" was based on a real hotel owner named Donald Sinclair,
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Donald Sinclair put Eric Idle's briefcase behind a brick wall in the back yard because he thought
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Steven Van Zant, who is one of the original members of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band,
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Orson Bean, actor, comedian -- his father helped found ACLU, his daughter married Andrew Breitbart.
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According to Wikipedia, since 2008, he's been a regular guest on "The Dennis Miller Show"
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Will Ferrell's dad, Roy Lee Ferrell, played with The Righteous Brothers
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When he was 16, Johnny Depp dropped out of Miramar high school to become a rock musician.
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He decided to try acting because Nicolas Cage told him he could make some $$$ n/t
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Former Santana drummer Michael Shrieve lives in Seattle, WA, where he plays in a fusion
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Judge George Greer (Terri Schiavo case) was a roommate of Morrison's at Florida State
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Dec 2018
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Corso once rode an elephant in a parade when he coached at Indiana. Homecoming I think.
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When she was only 15, singer Jewell lived in a remote Alaska cabin by herself
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Faria died at 29 in a motorcycle accident. Baez married David Harris who served over a year in a
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Mimi Farina founded "Bread and Roses," a non-profit cooperative organization that brings free music
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And Franken has proudly stated his membership in Alanon for decades....voila Stuart Smally
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Tommy Chong was born in Canada, and became a naturalized US citizen in the late 1980s
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Jerry Lee Lewis once drive his car right through Elvis Presley's gate at Graceland
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John Ritter died in the same hospital he was born in - Providence St. Joseph Medical Center
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"Nervous Norvis" aka Jimmy Drake, who had the hit song "Transfusion," was so shy that
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Actor, comedian, and Tonight Show writer Pat McCormick played basketball at Harvard
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Author Pat Conroy's father, Donald Conroy, served in WW2, the Korean War, and also
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Pat Conroy was fired from a teaching job because he refused to use corporal punishment
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Shitler's grandfather, Friedrich Drumpf, left Bavaria when he was 16 to avoid being drafted
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Sue Jones-Davies, the woman who played Judith in "Life of Brian," was mayor of Aberystwyth, Wales
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Sam Phillips of Sun Records arranged for an unknown singer named Elvis Presley to come
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Credence Clearwater Revival, or CCR, first started playing together in 1959, first as
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Mookie Betts, MVP of the Boston Red Sox, is also a professional bowler who
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I've had many pieces of art with the label behind him during the first part of the video
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Sears at the time sold the "Vincent Price Collection". If you have art work on the wall with a
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When he was 14, Martin Sheen organized a strike of golf caddies while working at a
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In his book "Dogs That Know Their Owners are Coming Home," Rupert Sheldrake puts
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John Mack, Harvard Medical School professor who, as a psychiatrist, had hundreds of
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The term "out-of-body" experience was popularized by Robert Monroe, who's first book
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The Rolling Stones played their first gig on July 12, 1962 at the Marquee Club in London
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Rolling Stones bass player Bill Wyman married a 14-year-old girl named Mandy Smith
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Yes. Bill's son was his father-in-law and his wife's stepfather and step son
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Dec 2018
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No, the book I'm reading now is the 1st book I've ever read about The Stones
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Marshall "Herf" Applewhite, of the Heaven's Gate cult, was the choir director at my church
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At The Rolling Stones' first gig, July 12, 1962, they were billed as The Rollin' Stones
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The reason Brian Jones left The Rolling Stones (which he founded) was because
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Bill Graham died in a helicopter crash in 1991 while returning from a Huey Lewis and
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The Rolling Stones' first US tour in June, 1964 was "a disaster" according to
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Author Stanley Booth lived with The Rolling Stones during their 1969 American tour,
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In high school, Ed Sullivan was an "all around athlete," playing halfback in football,
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Dion DiMucci's father, Pasquale DiMuccci, was a Vaudeville entertainer, and Dion
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After he married his first cousin once removed, Jerry Lee Lewis's live performance
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Oliver Hardy's father was a Confederate veteran who was injured at Antietam in 1862
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Legal thriller author John Grisham's first novel, a Time to Kill was rejected 28 times
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Red Skelton's facial expressions came from having arthritis at an early age
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During an interview on Art bell's radio show (Coast to Coast AM) actor Steven Segal
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The Grateful Dead were scheduled to play at the free concert at Altamont in 1969,
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Jefferson Airplane singer Marty Balin was knocked unconscious by a Hell's Angel
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Meredith Hunter, an 18-year-old student from Berkeley, was stabbed & beaten to death
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Charlie Watts' first gig as drummer for The Rolling Stones was on Jan. 14, 1963
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Dick Rowe, head of A & R for Decca Records, is the man who turned down The Beatles,
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The Rolling Stones' first gig was July 12, 1962, at the Marquee Club in London,
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Music journalist Stanley Booth wrote about Otis Redding, and was with him when he
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Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Oldham locked Mick Jagger & Keith Richards in a kitchen
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Before "Satisfaction" was released, The Rolling Stones weren't all convinced it was a good song
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Former Rolling Stones manager, Andrew Long Oldham, was a self-proclaimed hustler,
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After Keith Richards saw Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones beat up his girlfriend
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In 1940, Josh White co-starred with Paul Robeson in a Broadway musical called
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When Mick Taylor left The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton was interested in replacing him
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I got Jeff Beck mixed up with Alvin Lee, who played lead guitar for Ten Years After.
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Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who is running for POTUS as an independent,
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Jerry Lee Lewis once drive his car right through Elvis Presley's gate at Graceland
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Zeppo Marx was married to a showgirl named Barbara Marx who left him for a guy named Frank
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Rolling Stones manager, Andrew Oldham, discovered Marianne Faithful at a party
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Back in 2010, Rudolph Giuliani's daughter, Caroline, was arrested for shoplifting
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Anne Boleyn had six fingers... according to Clairee Belcher (in Steel Magnolias).
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He first dyed his hair black during the making of his 2nd film, "Loving You" in 1957
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Gunsmoke star James Arness was the first soldier to land on Anzio Beach during WWII
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I still remember the time Zsa Zsa appeared on The Tonight Show with one of her many cats
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Johnny Cash once played at a theater in Easton, Pa. This was when his career was going sideways.
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Elvis Presley's father, Vernon Presley, was found guilty of altering a check & was sentenced to
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Poor Vernon was sent to Parchman Farm (now MS state pen) - he altered a check for four bucks
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1975 was only one year before the "landmark" palimony case, Marvin v. Marvin, (1976)
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In 1957, Elvis Presley did three brief tours, with crazed fans at every show
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When the Beatles first visited Elvis Presley, they just sat there looking at him, speechless.
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"Elvis Presley became dependent on others to do even simple tasks around the house.
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Dick Shawn appeared in more than thirty movies and seven Broadway productions.
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Elvis Presley was turned on to pills by his sergeant while he was in the Army
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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards lived close to each other and knew each other as kids
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Keith Richards' maternal grandfather gave him his first guitar when he was 10
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According to "Celebrity Net Worth" Johnny Depp was worth more than $400 million in 2016
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Richie Cunningham's older brother on "Happy Days" was named Chuck, & he only lasted 9 episodes
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In grammar school, Keith Richards used to get beaten up every day after school by a bully
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Harmonica player "Little Walter," had 14 top-ten hits on the Billboard R&B charts
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Songwriter, harmonica & blues guitar player Jimmy Reed has been described as
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Jerry Mathers (as The Beaver) used to hang out summers with my friends father who was the same age..
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Grouch Marx and Alice Cooper were good friends toward the end of Groucho's ilfe
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On The Rolling Stones Decca recording of "Play With Fire," Phil Spector played bass
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At one point, while having dinner at his wife Patty's parents house for the first time,
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In 2006, while in Fiji, Keith Richards slipped off the branch of a dead tree, and suffered a
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Baseball statistician Bill James has written more than 2 dozen books on baseball
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11 months after being released from prison, John Wesley Hardin married a 15-year-old girl
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Sonny Boy Williamson, blues musician and song writer, was born John Lee Curtis Williamson
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After Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones died, the only band members who showed up at his
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Johnny Carson and side-kick Ed McMahon were both fans of Benny Hill and tried several times to
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Jerry Garcia went to Balboa High School in San Francisco, then to Analy High School in Sebastopol
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Woody Allen inherited his baldness from his mother, not his father, who still had a full head of
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One time The Grateful Dead were playing in Montreal, and the cops were hitting anyone who got
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In the early days of the Fillmore Auditorium, Bill Graham himself would greet everyone and give
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After a guy named Goldfinger spiked the apple juice backstage at a Grateful Dead concert with
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William Shatner's net worth has been estimated at between $100 million and $500 million
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In 1966, before he became famous, Neil Young and some friends traveled down from Canada in a
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Pepper Martin, who played third base for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1930s,
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Woody Guthrie, who died at 55 of Huntington's Disease, married three times and fathered eight
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Neil Young and Stephen Stills have been best friends since they were teenagers
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William Shatner earned a Bachelor's Degree in Commerce from McGill University
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Jerry Lee Lewis once drive his car right through Elvis Presley's gate at Graceland
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The main reason Buffalo Springfield broke up was because bass player Bruce Palmer got busted
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Carrie Fisher died on Dec. 27, 2016....Her mother, Debbie Reynolds, died the next day of a stroke.
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Thinking her daughter Carrie Fisher was strung out on LSD, Debbie Reynolds asked Cary Grant
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When a teenager, Jerry Garcia hung out with hoodlums & got into fights a lot, so his mother
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President Comb-Over-Boy received five draft deferments, four for college, and one for "bad feet"
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Breaking Bad and Tony award-winning actor Bryan Cranston was born in Hollywood and is worth
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Richard Brautigan was once arrested for throwing a rock through a police station window.
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Christina Applegate's character on "Married with Children" was actually a virgin
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Johannes Brahms usually had a cigar in his mouth while practicing on the piano
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Bob Dylan and Tiny Tim hung out together backstage at the New York club called "Cafe Wha?"
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Joe Biden's eldest son, Beau, who died of brain cancer, was a major in the U.S. Army
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Bob Dylan used to visit Woody Guthrie in the hospital in the mid-1960s when Woody was
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Randy Newman has received 3 Emmys, 7 Grammy Awards, and 2 Academy Awards for
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower described himself as a "progressive conservative"
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Harpo, Chico and Groucho Marx first worked together in Vaudeville as a singing group called
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As a boy growing up on his father's farm, most of Jimmy Carter's friends were African-American.
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When Jimmy Carter first proposed to his wife, Roalyn Smith, she turned him down.
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Jimmy Carter created two new cabinet-level departments, Dept of Energy & Dept of Education
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Jimmy Carter is credited with curtailing "river blindness", a parasitical disease in Africa.
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He's probably accomplished more as an ex-President than any other ex-President in history.
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Two of the major themes of Jimmy Carter's administration were keeping the peace & human rights"
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Hunter S. Thompson once attended a speech given by President Carter, and liked it so much,
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Unlike other U.S. presidents with children, Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter decided to enroll daughter
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Bill Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history.
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Since legalizing marijuana in 2014, Colorado has taken in over $1 billion in taxes & fees
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Dallas Police put out an APB for Lee Harvey Oswald as a suspect in the killing of Officer
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It was on The Steve Allen Show that Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks first appeared as a comedy team
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Barry Goldwater's running mate in the 1964 presidential election was William E. Miller, who is
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Alec Baldwin's first acting role was in the NBC soap opera "The Doctors" playing the role of
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Willie Nelson wrote his first song at age seven & joined his first band at age ten.
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Willie Nelson tried LSD one time, but didn't know that he was supposed to cut it into 3 parts
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Grateful Dead co-founder Ron "Pigpen" Mc Kernan did not do psychedelic drugs
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Teenage climate activist Greta Thurnberg will be sailing across the Atlantic in a high-speed
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Grateful Dead bass player Phil Lesh started out as a violin player, then later switched to trumpet
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Abbie Hoffman committed suicide by taking 150 phenobarbital tablets & liquor
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Buddy Holly was NOTHING like the Gary Busey portrayal of him in "The Buddy Holly Story"
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Guitarist James Burton has played with many musicians, including Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson,
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Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel recorded their first song in 1956 under the name "Tom & Jerry"
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