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* 1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of ' 29 or " Black Tuesday ", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
* Robert Sobel The Great Bull Market: Wall Street in the 1920s.
* Spring – Vast numbers of Indians move north to an encampment of the Sioux chief Sitting Bull in the region of the Little Bighorn River, creating the last great gathering of native peoples on the Great Plains.
At the climactic moment, " Sitting Bull intoned, ' The Great Spirit has given our enemies to us.
* On September 14, 1989, the United States Postal Service released a Great Americans series 28 ¢ postage stamp featuring a likeness of Sitting Bull.
Nefertari held many different titles, including: Great of Praises ( wrt-hzwt ), Sweet of Love ( bnrt-mrwt ), Lady of Grace ( nbt-im3t ), Great King ’ s Wife ( hmt-niswt-wrt ), Great King ’ s Wife, his beloved ( hmt-niswt-wrt meryt. f ), Lady of The Two Lands ( nbt-t3wy ), Lady of all Lands ( hnwt-t3w-nbw ), Wife of the Strong Bull ( hmt-k3-nxt ), God ’ s Wife ( hmt-ntr ), Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt ( hnwt-Shm ’ w-mhw ).
The title character, Lt. Col. Wilbur " Bull " Meechum, aka " The Great Santini ", was based on Conroy's father.
The Great Sioux War of 1876-77 was conducted by the Lakota under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
He appeared in more than 200 films, including The Big Trail ( 1930 ), with John Wayne ; The Scarlet Letter ( 1934 ), with Colleen Moore ; Sitting Bull ( 1954 ), as Crazy Horse ; The Light in the Forest ( 1958 ) as Cuyloga ; " The Great Sioux Massacre " ( 1965 ), with Joseph Cotten ; Nevada Smith ( 1966 ), with Steve McQueen ; A Man Called Horse ( 1970 ), with Richard Harris ; and Ernest Goes to Camp ( 1987 ), as Chief St.
A southern wall had earlier been built-the Great South Wall-but did not result in island formation, the South Bull remaining today an area of mud flats and strand.
The town stands directly on what used to be the Great North Road, the old coaching route between London and Edinburgh, and several old coaching inns are still to be found in the town, including the Queen's Head, the Waterford Lodge and the Black Bull.
Thereafter bands of Lakota led by Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and others, along with their Northern Cheyenne allies, hunted and raided throughout the length and breadth of eastern Montana and northeastern Wyoming, including the area of the Tongue River Valley, until the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877.
With Steven Brust, Bull wrote Freedom and Necessity ( 1997 ), an epistolary novel set during the 19th century United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Chartist movement.
As the third B & M megacoaster built, the ride is comparable amongst Diamondback at Kings Island, Goliath at La Ronde, Raging Bull at Six Flags Great America, Apollo's Chariot at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Behemoth at Canada's Wonderland, Intimidator at Carowinds, and Leviathan at Canada's Wonderland.
Some breeds appear to have an increased risk of mild cases as young dogs, including the Afghan Hound, American Staffordshire Terrier, Boston Terrier, Boxer, Chihuahua, Chow Chow, Shar Pei, Collie, Dalmatian, Doberman Pinscher, Bulldog, English Bull Terrier, Miniature Bull Terrier, German Shepherd Dog, Great Dane, Old English Sheepdog, American Pit Bull Terrier, West Highland White Terrier, Rat Terrier, and Pug.
The Red Bull was eventually destroyed in 1666 in the Great Fire of London.
And so, on September 10, 1910, Zbyszko faced the Great Gama in the finals of the John Bull World Championships in London.
South of the Poolbeg peninsula and the Great South Wall lies the sandy area known as the South Bull.
American Eagle, Giant Drop, Raging Bull, and Viper at Six Flags Great America.

Great and Market
China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 ( 2008 )
On poverty, Hoover said that " Given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation ", and promised, " We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land ," but within months, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurred, and the world's economy spiraled downward into the Great Depression.
If you've finished admiring its exterior ( there's nothing of note inside ), continue walking west to the Grote Markt ( Great Market ) on the north side of which is a sixteenth-century weighing hall that now serves as a restaurant.
Night life centers around the three main squares in the city center: the Plein ( literally " Square "), the Grote Markt ( literally " Great Market ") and the Buitenhof ( literally the " Outer Court ", which lies just outside the Binnenhof ).
But the most serious blows to both gangs, as well as most others around the country, was the Stock Market Crash in October 1929, which heralded the Great Depression, and the repeal of the 18th Amendment ( Prohibition ) in 1933, which had given rise to most of the lawlessness in the first place.
The square was called Veliky Torg ( Great market ) or simply Torg ( Market ), then Troitskaya by the name of the small Troitskaya ( Trinity ) Church, burnt down in the great fire during the Tatar invasion in 1571.
The bus station in Great Yarmouth is the major hub for local routes and is located under Market Gates Shopping Centre.
Known to many as the Keesey Tract, the East York area was listed as " fronting, for two-thirds of a mile, on both sides of Market Street, York ’ s main thoroughfare, and part of the Great Lincoln Highway.
Most activity around the mine area ceased after the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the advent of the Great Depression.
Other stations were Dewsbury Central on the Great Northern Railway which closed in 1964 and Dewsbury Market Place on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway which closed in 1930 ; a fourth goods-only station was built in the early 20th century at Savile Town by the Midland Railway.
The river is a tributary of the Great Ouse, rising near East Bradenham in Norfolk, and flowing for nearly through Necton, North Pickenham, South Pickenham, Great Cressingham, Ickburgh, Northwold and Stoke Ferry before joining the Great Ouse south of Downham Market, specifically in the small parish of Fordham.
The purpose of the new rivers was to facilitate drainage of the Great Ouse between Earith and Downham Market.
It includes the regular Great Market Square of 100 x 100 meters with the splendid Townhall and so-called Armenian houses, as well as the fragments of the original fortress and fortifications, including those from the period of the Russian occupation in the 19th century.
Its " head " was to be the Zamoyski palace, " backbone " Grodzka Street, crossing the Great Market Square from east to west, in the direction of the palace, and with the " arms " embodied by 10 streets intersecting the main streets: Solna street ( north of the Great Market Square ) and Bernardo Morando street ( south of the Great Market Square ).

Great and Wall
* The Great Wall – Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, New York, West Virginia, South Carolina
The Great Wall of China is also a beacon network.
In production of the countdown sequence, Clive Norman filmed images around the United Kingdom, Richard Jopson in the United States, while BBC News cameramen filmed images from Iraq, Beijing ( Great Wall of China ), Bund of Shanghai, Africa, as well as areas affected by the 2004 Asian Tsunami and others.
The Qin Dynasty is well known for beginning the Great Wall of China, which was later augmented and enhanced during the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, some of them, notably the Qiang and the Xiongnu, had already been allowed to live in the frontier regions within the Great Wall since late Han times.
These included the government system of Three Departments and Six Ministries, standard coinage, improved defense and expansion of the Great Wall, and official support for Buddhism.
During the Ming dynasty the last construction on the Great Wall was undertaken to protect China from foreign invasions.
While the Great Wall had been built in earlier times, most of what is seen today was either built or repaired by the Ming.
The Manchus were formerly known as Jurchen, residing in the northeastern part of the Ming territory outside the Great Wall.
These wonders are important achievements of society, science, culture and defense, ranging from the Pyramids and the Great Wall in the Ancient age, to Copernicus ' Observatory and Magellan's Expedition in the middle period, up to the Apollo program, the United Nations, and the Manhattan Project in the modern era.
The Ming Chinese also mounted over 3, 000 cast bronze and iron cannon on the Great Wall of China, to defend against the Mongols.
A goad to the era's plutocrats and their enablers in government, LaGuardia fought for progressive income taxes, greater government oversight of Wall Street, and national employment insurance for workers idled by the Great Depression.
The Great Wall of China is often incorrectly referred to as the only man-made object visible from the moon.
* The Great Wall of China is often thought as being the only man-made object visible from the moon.
Some astronauts have reported seeing the Great Wall from low earth orbit, among a number of man-made structures.
The most famous of these is the massive Hadrian's Wall in Great Britain, and the Danube and Rhine borders were strengthened with a series of mostly wooden fortifications, forts, outposts and watchtowers, the latter specifically improving communications and local area security.
When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, public works projects such as the Hoover Dam, tariffs such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an increase in the top tax bracket from 25 % to 63 %, and increases in corporate taxes.
Ibn Battuta also reported " the rampart of Yajuj and Majuj " was " sixty days ' travel " from the city of Zeitun ( Quanzhou ); Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb notes that Ibn Battuta believed that Great Wall of China was built by Dhul-Qarnayn to contain Gog and Magog as mentioned in the Quran.
A spurious legend has it that the invention of the game saved an ancient city in time of war, and its widespread popularity helped raise funds to build the Great Wall of China.
He was impressed by the Great Wall of China near Beijing, but concluded of the Chinese: " They smell of all the baths they didn't take.
While Polo's book describes paper money and the burning of coal, it fails to mention the Great Wall of China, chopsticks, and footbinding, making skeptics wonder if Marco Polo had really gone to China, or wrote his book based on hearsay.
Researchers note that the Great Wall familiar to us today is a Ming structure, post-dating Marco Polo's travels by more than two centuries.
Gene flow is hindered by mountain ranges, oceans and deserts or even man-made structures such as the Great Wall of China, which has hindered the flow of plant genes.
As well known as the " Great Wall of Purple " & " The 4 Norsemen ".
* " The Great Wall of Mars " ( 2000 ) by Alastair Reynolds, in which the most technologically advanced faction of humans is based on Mars and embroiled in an interplanetary war ; introduced some of the most important characters and groups in the Revelation Space universe.

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