Silver Creek is served by the Lake Erie Regional Health System, which consists of Lake Shore Hospital in Irving, Brooks Hospital in Dunkirk and Tri-County Memorial Hospital in Gowanda.

Giovanni Turini, a sculptor from Italy, who was born in 1841 and died in 1899, made the statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a man he served in the fighting surrounding the unification of Italy, in Washington Square, and also the bust of Giuseppe Mazzini in Central Park ; Actress Anne Bancroft ( Brooks ) ( Born: September 17, 1931 – Died: June 6, 2005 ).

Brooks is served by the Gervais School District, which includes the grade 2-4 Brooks Elementary School.

* Bishop Phillips Brooks, was an American clergyman and author, who briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s.

Airport Road Addition is served by the Brooks County Independent School District.

Cantu Addition is served by the Brooks County Independent School District.

Encino is served by the Brooks County Independent School District.

The City of Falfurrias is served by the Brooks County Independent School District.

Among the teachers who served in this school were: Mrs. Eula Phillips, Mrs. Beulah Whitlock, Mrs. Inez Newman, Miss Marie Pannell, Miss Alene Bane, Miss Naomi Brooks, Mrs. May Lawton, and Mrs. Mary K. Bain.

While the Smothers themselves were at the forefront of these efforts, credit also goes to the roster of writers and regular performers they brought to the show, including Jim Stafford ( who served as their head writer and producer ), Steve Martin, Don Novello (" Father Guido Sarducci "), Rob Reiner (" Mike Stivic "), Presidential candidate Pat Paulsen, Bob Einstein (" Super Dave Osborne ", " Marty Funkhouser ", and " Officer Judy "), Einstein's brother, Albert ( who works professionally as Albert Brooks ), and resident hippie Leigh French (" Share a Little Tea with Goldie ").

Thomas Overton Brooks ( December 21, 1897 – September 16, 1961 ) was a Democratic U. S. representative from the Shreveport-based Fourth Congressional District of northwestern Louisiana, having served for a quarter century beginning on January 3, 1937.

Brooks served overseas during World War I as an enlisted man in the Sixth Field Artillery, First Division, Regular Army, 1918-1919.

Brooks had little involvement with the series after the pilot, but Buck Henry served as story editor through 1967.

John Brooks, later to become Governor of Massachusetts, was captain of the " Fourth Company of Minute " and subsequently served at the Battle of White Plains and at Valley Forge.

The Southern Review was co-founded in 1935 by three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Penn Warren who served as U. S. Poet Laureate and wrote the classic novel All the King's Men, and renowned literary critic of the New Criticism school, Cleanth Brooks.

From 1945 to 1977, Arlington Hall served as the headquarters of the United States Army Security Agency and, for a brief period in late 1948, the newly formed United States Air Force Security Service ( USAFSS ) until they relocated to Brooks AFB in San Antonio, Texas.

With the retirement of Jamie L. Whitten, the death of William Natcher, and the defeat of Texas congressman Jack Brooks at the start of a new Congress in January 1995, he became the Dean of the United States House of Representatives even though fellow congressman Sidney Yates had served non-consecutive terms earlier than Dingell.

After graduating in 1980, Brooks served in Korea and Kosovo among other places.

He served ten months of a one year sentence in prison, while Brooks received a six-month home confinement and a penalty of US $ 350, 000.

Brooks has also hosted several documentaries and served as narrator in such features as the IMAX film Africa's Elephant Kingdom.

Brooks also served as Musical Supervisor for the project.

Brooks formerly served as Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mel Brooks later made a film, more closely based on the novel, titled The Twelve Chairs ( 1970 ), but with a sanitized " happier " ending ; the story also served as the basis for the film The Thirteen Chairs ( 1969 ) starring Sharon Tate.

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.