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Landon Jones, who coined the term " baby boomer " in his book Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation, defined the span of the baby-boom generation as extending from 1943 through 1960, when annual births increased over 4, 000, 000.
It is positioned in close proximity to the Boom towers which originally had a chain suspended between them and would have been used as part of the citys defences and as a method of collecting tolls on goods travelling up river from Great Yarmouth.
* Railroads in U. S. History ( 1830-2010 ) ( 2010 ), set of 4 DVDs, directed by Ron Meyer ; # 1, " Railroads come to America ( 1830-1840 );" # 2, " The First Great Railroad Boom ( 1841-1860 )"; # 3, " A New Era in American Railroading ( 1861-1870 )," # 4, " The Second Great Railroad Boom ( 1871-2010 )" link
The exhibit is divided into " This Native Land " ( 1792 1859 ) about native settlement and early European exploration and settlement ; " Little Town on Elliott Bay " ( 1859 1889 ) about the period until Washington statehood and the Great Seattle Fire ( both 1889 ); " Boom Times, Hard Times " ( 1889 1940 ) covering, especially, the Klondike Gold Rush and Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and the Great Depression ; " Homefront " ( 1941 1945 ) about Seattle during World War II and the U. S. homefront more generally ; " Our Own City " ( 1946 present ) covering the suburban boom, the American Civil Rights Movement, and the rise of companies such as Microsoft.
* The Next Great Bubble Boom ( 2006 )
* The Great Boom Ahead ( 1993 )
Demographic trends guru Harry S. Dent is making the rounds again, and touting his latest book, The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Crash Following the Greatest Boom in History ...."
In his 2006 work, Dent predicted, “ The Dow hitting 40, 000 by the end of the decade, the NASDAQ advancing at least ten times from its October 2001 lows to around 13, 500, and potentially as high as 20, 000 by 2009 … The Great Boom resurging into its final and strongest stage in 2007, and even more fully in 2008, lasting until late 2009 to early 2010 .”
* Washington Square Memoirs: The Great Urban Folk Boom ( 1950 1970 ) " School Days " ( 2001, Rhino )
< li > The Great Intellect Boom ( 1969 )
* Boom Boom, Ain't it Great to Be Crazy?
In 2001, Toop curated the sound art exhibition Sonic Boom, and the following year, he curated a 2-CD collection entitled Not Necessarily Enough English Music: A Collection of Experimental Music from Great Britain, 1960-1977.
The Money Wars: the Rise and Fall of the Great Buyout Boom of the 1980s.
He is best known for his role in the films Goin ' South, Fuzz, The Last Starfighter, Weird Science, The Great Outdoors, Baby Boom, and Silent Night, Deadly Night.
On 28 September 2008 he presented Oligart: The Great Russian Art Boom on Channel 4 about how Russia's rich are keeping Russia's art history alive by buying, and exhibiting domestic art.
TD Bank Community Stage on Air Products Town Square: Butterjive, Doug Hawk Proposition, The Pine Hollows, The StereoFidelics, Trouble City All-Stars, Running Late, The 4 Walls, Revolution I Love you, Scott Pine and the Conifers, MiZ, Andrew Portz Band, Tavern Tan, Kill the Broadcast, Boom Chick, Four the Day, Dan Mills, The Young Wolverines, Lunic, XVSK, They Were Only Satellites, Just Married, The Kalob Griffin Band, Sarah Donner, The Almighty Terribles, and the Great White Caps

Great and 1950
He held this status for the remainder of his life, but he did not live in Great Britain after 1950.
* 1950 The Great Brinks Robbery 11 thieves steal more than $ 2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
* The Great Contrast, written by Beria in 1950
In 1950 1, 600 Masurians left the country and in 1951, 35, 000 people from Masuria and Warmia managed to obtain a declaration of their German nationality by the embassies of the US and Great Britain in Warsaw.
* 1950 The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, otherwise known at the time as the " Storm of the Century ", strikes New England with hurricane force winds resulting in massive forest blow-downs and storm surge damage along the Northeast coast including New York City.
* The play Romulus the Great ( 1950 ), by Friedrich Dürrenmatt ; an " Ungeschichtliche historische Komödie " ( Unhistorical historical comedy ) about " Romulus Augustus's " reign, and the end of the Roman Empire in the West.
In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ( 1956 ), Ishmael ( Richard Basehart ) narrates the story and sometimes comments on the action in voice-over, as does Joe Gillis ( William Holden ) in Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and Eric Erickson ( William Holden ) in The Counterfeit Traitor ( 1962 ); adult Pip ( John Mills ) in Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Michael York in a television remake ( 1974 ).
In 1950, Gibbs was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.
It became a prime destination for African Americans during the Great Migration and surpassed two million occupants by 1950.
The system was continued in the Parliament of Great Britain ( from 1707 to 1800 ) and the United Kingdom Parliament, until 1950.
During the 1950 ′ s, Pinewood gave birth to the huge financial successes of the Carry On ... and Doctor films series, produced on behalf of Rank by Peter Rogers and his wife Betty E. Box and directed by the brothers Gerald Thomas and Ralph Thomas respectively ( Doctor in the House was the most popular box office film of 1954 in Great Britain ) and the Norman Wisdom comedies, which between 1953 and 1966 initially made more money than the James Bond film series.
In 1950, Sir Mortimer Wheeler identified one large building in Mohenjo-daro as a " Great Granary ".
Many of these neighborhoods are located in Northern cities where African Americans moved during The Great Migration ( 1914 1950 ) a period when over a million African Americans moved out of the rural Southern United States to escape the widespread racism of the South, to seek out employment opportunities in urban environments, and to pursue what was widely perceived to be better quality of life in the North.
Although the base was not assigned to Air Defense Command, the attached 29th Air Division was activated at Great Falls AFB in early 1950, bringing with them command and control authority of fighter interceptor squadrons, an aircraft control and warning squadron, and ground observer detachments in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and parts of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado as part of the Air Defense Command Western Air Defense Force.
After the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the decline of the railroad, by 1950 the population had fallen to just 105 residents, and much of the town was destroyed by fire in 1960.
The Great Depression took its toll on the Argyle area, and the population declined to only ninety in 1950.
* Great Northern Railway Post Office Car No. 42 — photographs and short history of one of six streamlined baggage-mail cars built for the Great Northern by the American Car and Foundry Company in 1950.
American composer and author Alec Wilder wrote of Carmichael in his sweeping " American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900 1950 " that he was the " most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented " of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century.
Long-distance trains from Marylebone began to be scaled back from 1958 after their transfer from BR's Eastern Region to the London Midland Region ( although Marylebone itself, and the first few miles of its route, had belonged to the Western Region since 1950 ), as the former Great Central Main Line was regarded as a duplicate of the Midland Main Line.
She quickly ascended in Hollywood with leading roles in The Great Gatsby ( 1949 ) with Alan Ladd and Winchester 73 ( 1950 ), opposite James Stewart.
She appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those films made in Great Britain during and after World War II she was one of J. Arthur Rank's ' well-spoken young starlets ' followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950.
Numbers wintering in Great Britain have risen almost tenfold from 30, 000 in 1950 to 292, 000 in October 2004.
In 1950 Columbia Records released five individual long playing records entitled Great Masters of the Keyboard.

Great and
Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
* Weigley, Russell F. A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861 1865.
* 1606 The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
* 1862 American Civil War: The Andrews Raid ( the Great Locomotive Chase ) occurred, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia ( now Kennesaw ).
* 1738 Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
* 1828 Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.
* 1972 The Great Khali, Indian wrestler
* 1902 Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
* 1669 Eudoxia Lopukhina, Russian wife of Peter the Great ( d. 1731 )
Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.
304 232 BC ), commonly known as Ashoka and also as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca.
* 1800 The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
* 1993 The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
* 1678 Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
* 1679 The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
* 1963 Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £ 2. 6 million in bank notes.
* 1929 Ronnie Biggs, English criminal, part of the Great Train Robbery of 1963
Mythology of All Races Series, Volume 2 Eddic, Great Britain: Marshall Jones Company, 1930, pp. 220 221.
* 1958 Art Kane photographs 57 notable jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait " A Great Day in Harlem " in front of a Brownstone in New York City.
* 1964 Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.
* 1783 A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
* 1917 A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32 % of the city leaving 70, 000 individuals homeless.
* 1759 Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years ' War between Great Britain and France.
* 1770 James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.

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