In 1962, Silent Spring by American biologist Rachel Carson was published.

William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker, urged her to write a piece on the subject, which developed into her famous book Silent Spring, published in 1962.

Silent Spring was a best seller, and public reaction to it launched the modern environmental movement in the United States.

The report the committee issued " add up to a fairly thorough-going vindication of Rachel Carson ’ s Silent Spring thesis ," in the words of the journal Science, and recommended a phaseout of " persistent toxic pesticides ".

In 1962, marine biologist and ecologist Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring helped to mobilize the environmental movement by alerting the public to toxic pesticides, such as DDT, bioaccumulating in the environment.

In 1954, the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon was exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, in 1969, an ecologically catastrophic oil spill from an offshore well in California's Santa Barbara Channel, Barry Commoner's protest against nuclear testing, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, Paul R. Ehrlich's The Population Bomb all added anxiety about the environment.

As the public became more aware of environmental issues, concern about air pollution, water pollution, solid waste disposal, dwindling energy resources, radiation, pesticide poisoning ( particularly as described in Rachel Carson's influential Silent Spring, 1962 ), noise pollution, and other environmental problems engaged a broadening number of sympathizers.

Specific examples include when Rachel Carson, in her book Silent Spring, suggested that the pesticide DDT caused cancer and drastically harmed ecosystems.

Another was the appearance of the best-seller Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, in 1962.

** Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is released, giving rise to the modern environmentalist movement.

From the conservation movement at the beginning of the 20th century, then with concern in the sixties about chemical pesticides, the ecological movement was born with Murray Bookchin's Our Synthetic Environment and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

The publication of the book Silent Spring ( 1962 ) by Rachel Carson drew attention to the impact of chemicals on the natural environment.

* Robert J. Hanyok, " Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2 – 4 August 1964 " Cryptologic Quarterly, Winter 2000 / Spring 2001 Edition, Vol.

Events that spurred this development included the publication of Rachael Carson's landmark environmental book Silent Spring along with major environmental issues becoming very public, such as the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, and the Cuyahoga River of Cleveland, Ohio, " catching fire " ( also in 1969 ), and helped increase the visibility of environmental issues and create this new field of study.

Later books which owe a large debt to Uncle Tom's Cabin include The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.

The New Yorker started serializing Silent Spring in June 1962, and it was published in book form ( with illustrations by Lois and Louis Darling ) by Houghton Mifflin on Sept. 27.

When the book Silent Spring was published, Rachel Carson was already a well-known writer on natural history, but had not previously been a social critic.

Silent Spring facilitated the ban of the pesticide DDT in 1972 in the United States.

Silent Spring has been featured in many lists of the best nonfiction books of the twentieth century.

Most recently, Silent Spring was named one of the 25 greatest science books of all time by the editors of Discover Magazine.

A follow-up book, Beyond Silent Spring, co-authored by H. F. van Emden and David Peakall, was published in 1996.

By tradition and by Carson's own public statements, the impetus for Silent Spring was a letter written in January 1958 by Carson's friend, Olga Owens Huckins, to The Boston Herald, describing the death of numerous birds around her property resulting from the aerial spraying of DDT to kill mosquitoes, a copy of which Huckins sent to Carson.

She had already begun collecting research on the matter and calling others ' attention to it when a 1957 lawsuit against the U. S. Department of Agriculture regarding aerial spraying over Long Island caught her attention and mobilized her to embark on the project that would eventually become Silent Spring.

History professor Gary Kroll commented, " Rachel Carson's Silent Spring played a large role in articulating ecology as a ' subversive subject '— as a perspective that cuts against the grain of materialism, scientism, and the technologically engineered control of nature.

Chlamydia is known as the " Silent Epidemic " because in women, it may not cause any symptoms in 75 % of cases, and can linger for months or years before being discovered.

Raleigh, North Carolina heavy metal band Alesana is scheduled to release a concept album, A Place Where the Sun Is Silent, during October 2011.

In August 2007, Todd Hollenshead stated at QuakeCon 2007 that a Return to Castle Wolfenstein movie is in development which re-teams the Silent Hill writer / producer team, Roger Avary as writer and director and Samuel Hadida as producer.

Elizabeth is well known for her roles in comedy films such as American Pie, Scary Movie and Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back.

The Silent Gondoliers ( ISBN 0-345-44263-6 ) is a 1983 novel written by William Goldman, under the pseudonym of " S. Morgenstern ", about why the gondoliers of Venice no longer sing through the tale of the protagonist Luigi.

The Silent Gondoliers is the lesser-known book written by S. Morgenstern.

In the tale of the god Thor's visit to the hall of the jötunn Geirröd, Gríðr is stated as the mother of " Víðarr the Silent " who assists Thor in his journey.

* July 28 – The Silent Protest is organized by the NAACP in New York to protest the East St. Louis Riot of July 2, as well as lynchings in Texas and Tennessee.

* February 10 – François, Duke of Anjou, arrives in the Netherlands, where he is personally welcomed by William the Silent.

The Lord Mayor is elected each year at Michaelmas ' Common Hall ', and takes office on the Friday before the second Saturday in November, at ' The Silent Ceremony '.

The ceremony is known as the " Silent Ceremony " because, aside from a short declaration by the incoming Lord Mayor, no speeches are made.

* Silent Coup, is a bestselling 1992 book written by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin in which they contend that former Nixon White House counsel John Dean orchestrated the 1972 Watergate burglary at Democratic National Committee headquarters to protect his future wife, Maureen Biner, by removing information linking her to a call-girl ( prostitute ) ring that worked for the DNC.

The OPA is featured, in fictionalized form as the Bureau of Price Regulation, in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mystery novel The Silent Speaker.

It is revealed that Holden has dissolved their partnership over Bluntman and Chronic, leaving the viewer with the assumption that he sold the publishing and creative rights over to Banky ( which is corroborated in the beginning of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back ).

Kevin Patrick Smith ( born August 2, 1970 ) is an American screenwriter, actor, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian / raconteur, and internet radio personality best recognized by viewers as Silent Bob.

Smith is also the owner of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, a comic book and novelty store in Red Bank, New Jersey.

* Silent auction is a variant of the English auction in which bids are written on a sheet of paper.

In the upper right panel, animation from the song " Silent E " is interspersed with the message Reading can be fun.

The term " Aqualung ", as far as is known, first appeared in print on page 3 of Jacques-Yves Cousteau's first book, The Silent World in 1953.

* The Silent Generation born 1925 through 1945, is the generation that includes those who were too young to join the service during World War II.

The Beat Generation is between the Silent Generation and the Baby Boomers.

The Silent City of Rocks National Reserve, containing exposed granitic batholith as old as 2. 5 billion years, is located in the southern part of the county.