Wu's own heritage is somewhat unusual: born in Taipei in Taiwan, he moved to Canada as a nine-year-old, speaking no English.
So long story short, "The Amazing Race" was born somewhat from our own real love of going places.
An interesting but somewhat unfocused appropriator born in Mexico in 1963, she mixes folk, Pop and modernist elements.
Her father, Charles Alexander Stevenson, was an Irish-born actor who was 60 when Margaret was born, somewhat scandalously, to his 22-year-old second wife, Frances Riley.
Serious risks remain even for somewhat bigger babies born weighing 500 to 1,000 grams (2.2 pounds), the cutoff for extremely low birth weight.
Frady sketches in the "small, somewhat tubby child" born to Alberta and Mike King in 1929, who grew up in Atlanta's black middle class, "a singularly favored boy".
Orson Welles was prenatally named by his father over a round of drinks in Rio (George Orson Welles, for the humorist George Ade and a man named Orson Wells, a friend but no relation of the Welleses) and born, somewhat anticlimactically, in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Again comes Earth Hour, a well-meaning if somewhat amorphous gimmick born in Australia six years ago, when the Sydney contingent of the environmental group WWF sought the help of the Leo Burnett advertising agency in focusing the popular mind on climate change.
That made me become somewhat like a first born.
It's an only somewhat uniquely American concept, born from the founders' disdain for monarchs and tyranny.
