* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

Such songs include " Little Rosewood Casket " ( 1870 ), " After the Ball " ( 1892 ) and " Danny Boy ".

In 2005, the Taiwan Society of New York selected Doraemon as a culturally significant work of Japanese otaku pop-culture in its exhibit Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture, curated by renowned artist Takashi Murakami.

Schultz has also appeared in films including The Fan ( 1981 ), as Broadway Actress Lauren Bacall's director, and Fat Man and Little Boy ( 1989 ), as J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Towards the end of the year, Bowie performed the song for Marc Bolan's television show Marc, and again two days later for Bing Crosby's televised Christmas special, when he joined Crosby in " Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy ", a version of " The Little Drummer Boy " with a new, contrapuntal verse.

* 1945 – World War II: The heavy cruiser leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb " Little Boy " bound for Tinian Island.

* 1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The " Small Boy " test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.

With an estimated Volcanic Explosivity Index ( VEI ) of 6, the eruption was equivalent to — about 13, 000 times the nuclear yield of the Little Boy bomb ( 13 to 16 kt ) that devastated Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II, and four times the yield of Tsar Bomba ( 50 Mt ), the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated.

Father Goose, His Book contains poems such as " There Was a Little Nigger Boy " and " Lee-Hi-Lung-Whan.

The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima after the dropping of " Little Boy "

The official yield estimate of " Little Boy " was about 13 kilotons of TNT equivalent in explosive force, i. e. 6. 3 × 10 < sup > 13 </ sup > joules = 63 TJ ( tera-joules ).

While damage could be studied later, the energy yield of the untested Little Boy design could be determined only at the moment of detonation, using instruments dropped by parachute from a plane flying in formation with the one that dropped the bomb.

Most knowledge about nuclear weapon urban blast destruction originates from studies of Little Boy at Hiroshima.

Because Little Boy was an air burst above the ground, there was no bomb crater and no local radioactive fallout.

* Little Boy description at Carey Sublette's NuclearWeaponArchive. org

* Nuclear Files. org Definition and explanation of ' Little Boy '

* Development of Little Boy and Fat Man ( translated from French )

* Functioning de Little Boy et Fat Man ( in French )

* Little Boy: a macabre irony ( in French )

* Little Boy 3D Model

* Hiroshima & Nagasaki Remembered information about preparation and dropping the Little Boy bomb

Coster-Mullen is the author of Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man, 2003 ( first printed in 1996, self-published ), considered a definitive text about Little Boy ; illustrations from which are used in the Assembly details section above.

The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.

* " Bloody Sunday ", a 1979 song by Stiff Little Fingers

The first single from Nobody's Daughter was " Skinny Little Bitch ", which was the most added song on alternative rock radio in early March 2010.

These districts include the Mexican villages, such as Pilsen along 18th street, and La Villita along 26th Street ; the Puerto Rican enclave Paseo Boricua in the Humboldt Park neighborhood ; " Greektown ", along South Halsted St, immediately west of downtown ; " Little Italy ", along Taylor St ; " Chinatown "; " Polish Patches "; " Little Seoul ", around Lawrence Avenue ; a cluster of Vietnamese restaurants along Argyle Avenue near Broadway, and Indian / Pakistani along Devon Avenue.

An interesting case is made by that Bach's " Eight Little Preludes and Fugues ", now thought to be spurious, may actually be authentic.

" ( 1979 ), Electric Light Orchestra ’ s " Shine a Little Love ", " Don't Bring Me Down ", and " Last Train to London " ( all 1979 ), George Benson's " Give Me the Night " ( 1980 ), Elton John and Kiki Dee's " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " ( 1976 ), and Diana Ross ' " Upside Down " ( 1980 ).

All of the boys were called " Ike ", such as " Big Ike " ( Edgar ) and " Little Ike " ( Dwight ); the nickname was intended as an abbreviation of their last name.

* Peirce, C. S. ( 1883 ), " A Theory of Probable Inference ", Studies in Logic, pp. 126-181, Little, Brown, and Company.

Discovery also produced the hits " Shine a Little Love ", " Last Train to London ", " Confusion " and " The Diary of Horace Wimp ".

The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.

Baresi was nicknamed " Piscinin ", Milanese for " Little one ".

* The Fujiwara clan is featured prominently in Little Sister, " The Nightingale ", and The Heavenward Path by Kara Dalkey.

After Little Richard left Macon for Los Angeles after the release of " Tutti Frutti ", Brantley included the band at every venue Richard had performed, leading to the growth of the group's success.

In fact, the city was ruled by a secretive executive committee, called the " Little Council ", which was made up of 25 members of its wealthiest families.

Among their most successful songs was " Surf City ", which topped both the Billboard and Cashbox music charts in June 1963 ; " Drag City ", which was a No. 10 hit on both the Billboard and Cashbox charts in 1963 ; and their song " The Little Old Lady from Pasadena ", which peaked at No. 3.

Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.

Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.

The company which performed the Pulitzer Prize musical here last night and will repeat it twice today is full of bounce, the politicians are in fine voice, the chorines evoke happy memories, and the Little Flower rides to break a lance again.

Little work has been done on the Munda languages, which are not well documented ; with their demotion from a primary branch, Proto-Mon – Khmer becomes synonymous with Proto-Austro-Asiatic.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

Little is known of the personality of Agnes, beyond the remarkable influence which she seems to have exercised over Philip II.

Little remains of the claustral buildings of the Abbey except for the impressive gatehouse, which stretches between the south-west corner of the church and a defensive tower on the High Street, and the still complete Abbot's House, a building of the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries, which is the best-preserved of its type in Scotland.

Little is known of the family with certainty ; the Chambers Biographical Dictionary records that they arrived in Spain in the 8th century but the name is familiar from the romance by Ginés Perez de Hita, Guerras civiles de Granada, which celebrates the feuds of the Abencerrages and the rival family of the Zegris, and the cruel treatment to which the former were subjected.

Although " Takes A Little Time " was a moderate hit single, the album failed to sell like the previous two albums, which had both gone multi-platinum.

Besides Dick Tracy, Capp parodied many other comic strips in Li ' l Abner — including Steve Canyon, Superman ( at least twice ; first as " Jack Jawbreaker " in 1947, and again in 1966 as " Chickensouperman "), Mary Worth, Peanuts, Rex Morgan, M. D., Little Annie Rooney and Little Orphan Annie ( in which Punjab became " Punjbag ," an oleaginous slob ).

Fearless Fosdick — and Capp's other spoofs like " Little Fanny Gooney " ( 1952 ) and " Jack Jawbreaker "— were almost certainly an early inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's Mad Magazine, which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied other comics in the same distinctive style and subversive manner.

The late Medieval period saw the recitation of certain hours of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin, which was based on the Breviary in form and content, becoming popular among those who could read, and Bishop Challoner did much to popularise the hours of Sunday Vespers and Compline ( albeit in English translation ) in his ' Garden of the Soul ' in the eighteenth century.

Focus on the impact of a Little Ice Age on the empire, as the empire, beginning with a sharp drop in temperatures in the 13th century during which time the Mongol leader Kubla Khan moved south into China.

Following a turbulent childhood which was marked by drug and alcohol abuse and two stints in rehab, Barrymore wrote the 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost.

Despite his unprecedented use of Army troops to enforce a federal desegregation order at Central High School in Little Rock, Eisenhower was criticized for his reluctance to support the civil rights movement to the degree which activists wanted.

In Swansea's maritime quarter are the Dylan Thomas Theatre, home of the Swansea Little Theatre of which Thomas was once a member, and the former Guildhall built in 1825 and now occupied by the Dylan Thomas Centre, a literature centre, where exhibitions and lectures are held and setting for the annual Dylan Thomas Festival.

His first children's book, Stuart Little, which was published in 1945, and Charlotte's Web, which appeared in 1952.

This has been studied in psychology as fear conditioning, beginning with John B. Watson's Little Albert experiment in 1920, which was inspired after observing a child with an irrational fear of dogs.