" Ringworld ", or more formally, " Niven ring ", has become a generic term for such a structure, which is an example of what science fiction fans call a " Big Dumb Object ", or more formally a megastructure.

Cosmic themes, metaphysics, sense of wonder, exotic settings, technobabble, so-called Big Dumb Objects, psychedelic imagery, and " two fisted action " have been mostly phased out in favor of human content, contemporary themes, and strong focus on character relationships.

* Ska / punk band Big D and the Kids Table released their song " It's Raining Zombies On Wall Street " on their new album For the Damned, the Dumb & the Delirious.

Comedy films such as Dumb & Dumber and Big Momma's House that contain action-laden sub-plots are not considered part of the genre as the action scenes have a more integral role in action comedies.

" Humor in grunge often satirized glam metal — for example, Soundgarden's " Big Dumb Sex "— and other forms of popular rock music during the 1980s ..

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In discussion of science fiction, a Big Dumb Object ( BDO ) is any mysterious object ( usually of extraterrestrial or unknown origin and immense power ) in a story which generates an intense sense of wonder just by being there ; to a certain extent, the term deliberately deflates this.

Big Dumb Objects often exhibit extreme or unusual properties, or a total absence of expected properties:

is a parody of the Big Dumb Object, " a very mysterious and powerful device ", alternately described as an object whose " mystery is only exceeded by its power " and whose " power is only exceeded by its mystery ".

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Big Dumb Boosters ( BDB ) are a general class of launch vehicle built around the idea that it is cheaper to mass produce and operate large, strong, heavy rockets of simple design than it is to build a few smaller, lighter, more cleverly designed ones.

The BDB ( Big Dumb Booster ) plays a significant role in Stephen Baxter's Manifold series.

Alien doomsday machines are common in science fiction as " Big Dumb Objects ", McGuffins around which the plot can be constructed.

In 1998, Borland formed a side project, Big Dumb Face, with whom he released one whole album.

In 1998, Borland formed a side project, Big Dumb Face, influenced by Ween and Mr. Bungle.

In March 2001, Big Dumb Face released its début album, Duke Lion Fights the Terror !!

Rocket recovered from this early-career setback and worked steadily in film, with roles in such movies as Earth Girls Are Easy, It's Pat, Steal Big Steal Little, How I Got into College, Dances with Wolves and Dumb and Dumber, often playing comedic foils.

* Big Dumb Object, a term used in science fiction

Big Dumb Face is a band formed by Wes and Scott Borland.

Wes Borland set the project to the side once he quit Limp Bizkit in 2001 to start up progressive metal outfit Eat the Day, but once Eat the Day fell through and Borland briefly rejoined Limp Bizkit in late 2004, Borland recorded and wrote a new Big Dumb Face thrash / death metal song called " Darkness Becomes ", which was available on Borland's website, but now is available on the Big Dumb Face website.

The Big Gig became known for showcasing many new comedy acts, including Judith Lucy, Anthony Morgan, Jimeoin, Greg Fleet, Lano and Woodley ( at the time members of a trio called The Found Objects, with Scott Casley ), Scared Weird Little Guys and The Umbilical Brothers,

But at Yalta the conflicting expectations of East and West were merged into an agreement by the Big Three to assist all liberated countries in Europe `` to create democratic institutions of their own choice ''.

For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

On the third occasion -- another Big Four summit session at Paris a year ago -- there was no problem of an illusory `` spirit ''.

A brief passage in The Big Four furnishes possible information about Poirot's birth or at least childhood in or near the town of Spa, Belgium: " But we did not go into Spa itself.

It was there that Young retrieved, at the request of mission control, the largest rock returned by an Apollo mission, a breccia nicknamed Big Muley after mission geology principal investigator Bill Muehlberger.

A Big Mac combo meal with French fries and Coca-Cola served at a McDonald's in Louisvile, Kentucky.

* 2010 – Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.

Big bands such as those of Duke Ellington ( at the very beginning of his career ), Bennie Moten, and Count Basie performed head arrangements ( ibid ).

Northern Lights & Big Dipper at Fairbanks, AK during September.

The Lord's Day Act, which since 1906 had prohibited business transactions from taking place on Sundays, was struck down as unconstitutional in the 1985 case R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. Calgary police officers witnessed several transactions at the Big M Drug Mart, all of which occurred on a Sunday.

** Big Dipper ( Blackpool ), a wooden roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach

** Big Dipper ( Geauga Lake ), a wooden roller coaster currently Standing but not operating at Geauga Lake

** Big Dipper ( Luna Park Sydney ), a wooden roller coaster operating at Luna Park Sydney from 1935 until 1981

** Cyclone ( Dreamworld ), a steel roller coaster which operated as Big Dipper at Luna Park Sydney from 1995 to 2001

While the scientific community was once divided between supporters of the Big Bang and those of alternative cosmological models, most scientists became convinced that some version of the Big Bang scenario best fit observations after the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964, and especially when its spectrum ( i. e., the amount of radiation measured at each wavelength ) was found to match that of thermal radiation from a black body.

Much of the current work in cosmology includes understanding how galaxies form in the context of the Big Bang, understanding the physics of the Universe at earlier and earlier times, and reconciling observations with the basic theory.

Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

A spontaneous ritual of devotion to Big Brother (" BB ") is illustrated at the end of the " Two Minutes Hate ":

It was also reported that federal safety authorities had questioned the design of the handrails and had recommended crash-testing them before they were originally installed, but these concerns were dismissed by Big Dig project managers at the time.

The idea for Big Brother is said to have come during a brainstorm session at the Dutch-based international television production firm Endemol, on March 10, 1997.

He is featured performing at the Surf Ballroom and boarding the doomed airplane with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.