American singer-songwriter Kesha is also a popular synthpop artist, with her synthesized debut single " Tik Tok " topping the Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks in 2009, while topping the end of year chart in the US in 2010.

* March 17 – Malvina Reynolds, 77, US folk / blues singer-songwriter

* October 20 – Britney Spears releases the first single, " Me Against The Music " featuring American singer-songwriter Madonna, from her upcoming album In the Zone, marketed as a comeback single in the US ; it goes on to be an international success, reaching the top three in several countries.

* Oh Land is a Danish singer-songwriter with great success in Europe and the US.

John Lester " Johnny " Nash, Jr. ( born August 19, 1940 ) is an American pop singer-songwriter, best known in the US for his 1972 comeback hit, " I Can See Clearly Now ".

Annie Erin Clark ( born September 28, 1982 ), better known by her stage name St. Vincent, is a US singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

He completed a solo tour through the US in the spring of 2007 that featured David Bazan of Pedro the Lion and singer-songwriter Johnathan Rice.

* Whip ( musician ), US folk singer-songwriter

Lovering sang lead vocals on the " Velouria " B-side " Make Believe "; a song about his admitted " obsession " with US singer-songwriter Debbie Gibson.

Edie Arlisa Brickell ( born March 10, 1966 ) is an American singer-songwriter widely known for 1988's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, the debut album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, which went # 4 on the US Albums Chart.

The golden decade began with the success of singer-songwriter Christopher Cross, whose self-titled debut album went to # 6 in the US and produced four charting singles, including the # 1 hit " Sailing ".

Olivia Olson ( born ) is a US actress and singer-songwriter known for her role as Joanna singing " All I Want For Christmas Is You " in Love Actually ( 2003 ) and for her voice roles as Vanessa Doofenshmirtz in Phineas and Ferb and Marceline the Vampire Queen in Adventure Time with Finn and Jake.

On the Another Country tour, Merritt made runs in both the US and the UK with fellow singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson.

His career was interrupted several times by various problems, but he has always returned to recording and performing in the US and Europe, re-establishing himself as a singer-songwriter.

* Alive In California ( BOP CD 002 ) by British singer-songwriter Kevin Ayers, whom Derrick brought to the US in 1998 and 2000 for two California mini-tours ( Los Angeles and San Francisco ).

* 1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in US railroading.

In 1845, industrialist Peter Cooper ( who built the first American steam-powered locomotive, the Tom Thumb ), obtained a patent ( US Patent 4084 ) for powdered gelatin.

* The song is performed on an episode of the US sitcom Newhart, leading the dim-witted character of George Utley ( Tom Poston ) to say, " I never realized what that song was really about!

In May, another Tom Springfield composition followed, " A World of Our Own ", which reached top 3 in Australia and the UK and top 20 in the US.

* Tom Wood as Private Nash, a naive US Marine.

Garrard County is in the 6th Congressional District, represented by US Rep. Ben Chandler ; in the 22nd State Senatorial District represented by State Senator Tom Buford and in the 36th State Legislative District represented by State Representative Lonnie Napier.

He regularly combined his programme with a similar American show presented by Tom Leykis, alternating between UK and US callers.

* Tom and Judy Dawson, The Hochman Encyclopedia of American Playing Cards, Stamford, CT: US Games Systems Inc., 2000.

Guy LeBlanc had to quit shortly before going on the road due to the illness of his wife, and was replaced by Tom Brislin ( in the US ) and a train-travelling Ton Scherpenzeel ( European leg ).

Michael Learned and Tom Bosley starred in a 2006-07 US national tour produced by Finn.

Tom Stack, formerly Principal of Ronan High School, in Ronan, MT, who has accepted a position as the Principal of Clinton High School, where he fled after disinviting former US Marine and Schindler's List Producer Gerald Molen from speaking at the Ronan 2012 commencement because of the former Marine's " conservative views.

The " US 66 midpoint " branding was adopted in 1995 on the advice of travel author and Route 66 Association founder Tom Snyder.

At the end of the film Cast Away, Chuck Nolan ( Tom Hanks ) is seen on US Route 83 near Interstate 40, the real-life location of Shamrock.

Also, as a reference to another rock band, The Foo Fighters, Tom spits in to the camera lens like Dave Grohl in the " Monkey Wrench " music video, but at the end, Mark violently forces him to wipe it off using a US $ 100 bill.

Austria's Falco and Germany ’ s Nena were very successful in German-speaking countries, and Canada's Tom Cochrane and Default has had similar success in their homeland, but all are considered one-hit wonders in the US and UK ( except for Default, who never had a hit in the UK ).

Whitewright was the home of US Lieutenant Joe Tom Meador, who after World War II looted several major pieces of art from a cave near Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

The Democrats subsequently lost this district when Republican Tom Campbell defeated Democratic candidate Jerry Estruth in the special election held to fill the vacated seat, though Mineta protégé Mike Honda would win the seat back for the Democrats five years later when Campbell gave it up to run for the US Senate.

Allegations made by Balkan media sources of corruption and improper conduct by Ahtisaari were described by US State Department spokesman Tom Casey as " spurious ", adding that Ahtisaari's plan is the " best solution possible " and has the " full endorsement of the United States ".

They never topped the British charts again, but had two US Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s with " Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter " ( originally sung by Tom Courtenay in a 1963 British TV play ) and " I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am " ( a British music hall song by Harry Champion dating from 1910, which Peter Noone's Irish grandfather had been in the habit of singing when Noone was young ).

* Tom Clancy signs a book deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. ( both part of Pearson Education ), giving him US $ 50 million for the world-English rights to two new books.

Amphetamine Reptile Records ( or AmRep Industries ) is a nationally renowned record label which was founded in 1986 by then-US Marine Tom Hazelmyer in Washington State, US The label is best known for its roster of noise rock artists, and its Dope, Guns ' n ' Fucking In The Streets series of compilations.

In 2011, several former senior US officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, three former chairmen of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, two former directors of the CIA, former commander of NATO Wesley Clark, two former US Ambassadors to the United Nations, the former U. S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, a former White House Chief of Staff, a former commander of the United States Marine Corps, former U. S. National Security Advisor Frances Townsend, and US President Barack Obama's retired National Security Adviser General James L. Jones called for the MEK to be removed from its official listing on the U. S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, on the grounds that they constituted a viable opposition to the Iranian regime.

William Shawcross, however, wrote that the US bombing and ground incursion plunged Cambodia into the chaos Sihanouk had worked for years to avoid.

David Rothkopf, managing director of Kissinger Associates and an adjunct professor of international affairs at Columbia University ( who also served as a senior US Commerce Department official in the Clinton Administration ), wrote about cultural imperialism in his provocatively titled In Praise of Cultural Imperialism?

The " puzzle " approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr — also writing as Carter Dickson — who is regarded as the master of the " locked room mystery ", and Cecil Street, who also wrote as John Rhode, whose detective, Dr. Priestley, specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the whodunnit was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Ellery Queen, among others.

US minimalist composer Philip Glass wrote a prelude focused on the lower register that he scored for timpani and double bass.

This technology was also predicted by US Army General Hap Arnold who wrote in 1943:

Luis Felipe Corea, the Nicaraguan minister in Washington, wrote to US Secretary of State John Hay expressing the Zelaya government's support for such a canal.

However in 1982 Thatcher wrote to President Reagan to request the United Kingdom be allowed to procure the Trident II ( Trident D5 ) system, the procurement of which had been accelerated by the US Navy.

Heinlein grew up in the era of racial segregation in the United States and wrote some of his most influential fiction at the height of the US civil rights movement.

Under the pseudonym " Adam Hall ", Trevor Dudley-Smith wrote the Quiller spy novel series, beginning with The Berlin Memorandum ( US: The Quiller Memorandum, 1965 ), a hybrid of glamour and dirt, Fleming and Le Carré.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

US President John Adams once wrote to his son, " Terence is remarkable, for good morals, good taste, and good Latin ... His language has simplicity and an elegance that make him proper to be accurately studied as a model.

American historian and author Ruth Edna Kelley of Massachusetts wrote the first book length history of the holiday in the US ; The Book of Hallowe ' en ( 1919 ), and references souling in the chapter " Hallowe ' en in America ";

However in 1982 Thatcher wrote to President Reagan to request the United Kingdom be allowed to procure the Trident II system, the procurement of which had been accelerated by the US Navy.

In 1868, in an effort to drum up support for Tubman's claim for a Civil War military pension, a former abolitionist named Salley Holley wrote an article claiming US $ 40, 000 " was not too great a reward for Maryland slaveholders to offer for her.

He wrote the first version of the Southern Manifesto, announcing southern disagreement with and resistance to implementation of school desegregation following the US Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

During the crisis, Fidel Castro wrote Khrushchev a letter about the prospect that the " imperialists " would be " extremely dangerous " if they responded militarily to the Soviet stationing of nuclear missiles aimed at US territory, less than 90 miles away in Cuba.

His statements in this respect call to mind the statements of US Supreme Court Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone who wrote " Chief US prosecutor Jackson is away conducting his high-grade lynching party in Nuremberg, I don't mind what he does to the Nazis, but I hate to see the pretense that he is running a court and proceeding according to common law.

" ALEC wrote to the Australian government stating that US legislators opposed the requirements for plain packaging.

Dick Lamm, former three-term Democratic governor of the US state of Colorado, wrote in his essay " I have a plan to destroy America ":

He returned to Bloomington where he wrote for the family newspaper, The Daily Pantagraph, which was founded by his maternal great grandfather Jesse W. Fell, who had also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager in his 1858 race for the US Senate.

Louis Gathmann received a patent ( US Patent 462, 795 ) for his weather modification research and wrote a book, Rain Produced At Will on the subject which also had chapters written by respected scientific authorities of the era, such as Simon Newcomb.

* Frank Abagnale Jr., US impostor who wrote bad checks and falsely represented himself as a qualified member of professions such as airline pilot, doctor, attorney, and teacher.

* Frederick Emerson Peters, US impersonator who wrote bad checks.

When it was first previewed, many ballet critics in the UK and in the US wrote positively, pleased to see ballet portrayed so well on screen, but when they realised that it was universally popular, their reviews suddenly became quite dismissive of the film.