A plot twist that involved Homer being carried away to an eagle nest and being raised as a baby eagle was suggested for this episode by executive producer James L. Brooks, but they ended up going with Maggie being raised by bears instead.

Brooks focused instead on biologically-inspired robotic architectures ( e. g., the subsumption architecture ) that address basic perceptual and sensorimotor tasks.

Brooks, reportedly dismayed by both Burlingame's unexpectedly enthusiastic acceptance and his reputation as a crack shot, neglected to show up, instead citing unspecified risks to his safety if he was to cross " hostile country " ( the Northern states ) to reach Canada.

After a minor battle involving Wildcat, Tom's mother and the first Huntress, Paula Brooks, Wildcat takes Tom's mother to see Dr. Midnite who cured her of the involuntary aspect of her power, allowing her to change at will instead.

Victor cast off his night of passion with Nikki as a mistake, and instead took up with a woman named Lorie Brooks, who in truth only wanted to be with Victor to write an expose on him.

Computer scientist Rodney Brooks has proposed sending a multitude of cheap, bug-like robots to explore Mars instead of solitary, expensive rovers.

The coaching staff made Sherman, who had played well against Michigan and Virginia Tech in 1995 after starter Mike Groh went down to injury, the primary quarterback instead of the inexperienced Brooks.

Initially some radio stations preferred not to mention the song by name and would instead refer to it as " a song by Meredith Brooks ".

Mr. Conklin is at the park to meet an old college girl friend, but finds Miss Brooks instead, 1955.

Brooks ignored contemporary artistic trends such as Cubism and Fauvism, drawing instead on the Symbolist and Aesthetic movements of the 19th century, especially the works of James McNeill Whistler.

According to legend Brooks went to Butte, Montana where he attempted to become the city marshal but, in part because of Brooks reputation, was instead passed over in favor of Morgan Earp.

When her threats failed, Brooks instead attempted to charm Behrens into allowing her into the match.

According to an initial published report on the Northeast Radio Watch website, Fybush. com, AMP's first local DJ was to be Joey Brooks, formerly of CHUM-FM / Toronto ; however, Brooks ended up going to WMIA-FM (" 939 MIA ") in Miami, Florida instead.

In 2005 Brooks insisted that he was not touring and did not plan to record any new studio material until at least 2015.

Brooks wanted to charge ten or more dollars, but Theodore insisted on four dollars, so as not to scare people away.

Brooks had been hobbled by a shoulder injury, and though both he and Haslett insisted the injury would not affect his play, the quarterback's performance suggested otherwise.

Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.

`` Take a ride on this one '', Brooks Robinson greeted Hansen as the Bird third sacker grabbed a bat, headed for the plate and bounced a third-inning two-run double off the left-centerfield wall tonight.

Journalist Noah Brooks reported, " No man ever before made such an impression on his first appeal to a New York audience.

* Alexandra Brooks DiMera, aka Lexie Carver, character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives

Brooks was born in Beverly Hills, California, the son of Thelma Leeds ( née Goodman ), a singer and actress, and Harry Einstein, a radio comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor's radio program and was known as Parkyakarkus.

Brooks attended Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, but dropped out after one year to focus on his comedy career.

Brooks led a new generation of self-reflective baby-boomer comics appearing on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, Brooks co-wrote ( with longtime collaborator Monica Johnson ), directed and starred in a series of well-received comedies, playing variants on his standard neurotic and self-obsessed character.

Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, the film was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and draft.

Brooks stopped teaching recently to " devote 100 % of his time on solving the problem as to why he needed to eat some type of food to keep his physical body alive and allow his light body to manifest completely.

On his website, Brooks states that his potential followers must first prepare by combining the junk food diet with the meditative incantation of five magic " fifth-dimensional " words which appear on his website, some of which are words from Kundalini yoga.

Brooks states that he may be contacted on his fifth-dimensional phone in order to get the correct pronunciation of the five magic words.

CNN reported that " Brooks was joined on stage by two surprise guest stars, Billy Joel and Don McLean, who brought down the house with an acoustic rendition of ' American Pie '.

Two years later, Brooks repaid the favor by appearing as a special guest ( with Nanci Griffith ) on McLean's first American TV special, broadcast as the PBS special Starry Starry Night.

A month later, McLean wound up the 20th century by performing " American Pie " at the Lincoln Memorial Gala in Washington D. C. Brooks again played " American Pie " during We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.

Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.

Garth Brooks was born on February 7, 1962, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

He was the youngest child of Troyal Raymond Brooks, a draftsman for an oil company, and Colleen Carroll, a 1950s-era country singer who recorded on the Capitol Records label and appeared on Ozark Jubilee.

Garth Brooks remarried on December 10, 2005, to Trisha Yearwood, a leading country singer.

To support the album, Brooks embarked on a 1994 UK tour, selling out venues such as Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre and London's Wembley Arena.

Scores of Brooks fans later wrote to complain about his treatment on the show.

Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.

In 1994 Brooks paid homage to one of his musical influences when he appeared on the hard rock compilation Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved, a collection of Kiss cover songs by popular artists from all genres.

All the remaining captives were then killed, including Thompson, Samuel Cottrell, a member of the original survey team, interpreter John Brooks and Captain Wakefield-younger brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and William Wakefield.

On 23 April 1996, the three remaining suspects were acquitted of murder by a jury at the Central Criminal Court, after the trial judge, the Honourable Mr Justice Curtis, ruled that the identification evidence given by Duwayne Brooks was unreliable.

Second and third formers live in Brooks House, part of Lower School, with their prefects ; fourth, fifth, and the remaining sixth formers live in Hundred House, also known as Upper School, and in two dorms in Brooks House.

The remaining stores were sold to the Jean Coutu Group and merged with its Brooks Pharmacy chain.

* 1962: ALCO closes the former Brooks plant in Dunkirk, laying off the remaining 750 laborers at the facility.

Brooks City-Base deactivated the 311th Air Base Group on 1 Sept, 2011, and the remaining few USAF personnel had shuttered the base for good by the 15th of that month.