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.

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.

Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962.

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.

Between 1947 and 1951 he was the editor at the pioneering paperback publisher Avon Books, where he made available highly affordable editions of the works of A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, and C. S. Lewis ' Silent Planet space trilogy, bringing these previously little-known authors a wide readership.

On 10 October 2006 Sounds of the Season: The Enya Holiday Collection was released containing six songs: the previously released " Oíche Chiúin " ( a. k. a. " Silent Night ") and " Amid the Falling Snow ", new recordings of the standards " Adeste Fideles " ( a. k. a. " Oh Come All Ye Faithful ") and " We Wish You a Merry Christmas " as well as two original songs, " Christmas Secrets " and " The Magic of the Night ".

The Independent later stated that " Lindsay came across as all style and no substance, a ' limousine liberal ' who knew nothing of the concerns of the same ' Silent Majority ' that was carrying Richard Nixon to the White House at the very same time.

In 1935, British movie, The Silent Passenger, was released, in which Lord Peter ( played by Peter Haddon ) solved a mystery on the boat train crossing the English Channel.

* Out of the Silent Planet, by C. S. Lewis ( 1938 ), was written as a conscious answer and antithesis to the works of H. G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon.

" Some contemporary Finns nicknamed him Suuri vaikenija ( The Great Silent One ), and Ron Clarke noted that Nurmi's persona remained a mystery even to Finnish runners and journalists: " Even to them, he was never quite real.

On August 3, 2007, GameSpot reported that Variety confirmed Return to Castle Wolfenstein and that the writer / producer team that was involved with Silent Hill will be involved with the Wolfenstein project.

Silent film actors emphasized body language and facial expression so that the audience could better understand what an actor was feeling and portraying on screen.

Silent slapstick comedy was also popular in early French films and included films by Max Linder and Charles Prince.

This was hardly Rickover's first clash with the defense industry ; he was historically hard, even harsh, in exacting high standards from these contractors – but now his relationship with Electric Boat took on the characteristics of an all-out, no-holds-barred war ( Running Critical: The Silent War, Rickover & General Dynamics, 1986 ).

In 1800, the family moved to Freiberg in Saxony, where Weber, then 14 years old, wrote an opera called Das stumme Waldmädchen ( The Silent Forest Maiden ), which was produced at the Freiberg theatre.

It was announced on June 8, 2011 that Korn will be composing the theme song for Silent Hill: Downpour.

It was ranked number 2 in a list of the 100 greatest films of the Silent Era.

The album's first single, " Deadly Handsome Man " was a song featured on the Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back movie soundtrack a few years earlier under its original title, " The Devil's Song ".

Later, during lunch with Jay and Silent Bob ( Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith ), Silent Bob reveals that he was once in a relationship similar to Holden's.

The end of silent film in the West and in Japan was imposed by the industry and the market, not by any inner need or natural evolution .... Silent cinema was a highly pleasurable and fully mature form.

" Silent All These Years ", another song from Little Earthquakes, was the first track on this single, with " Gun " appearing third ( or as the B-side on the 7 " release ).