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.

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.

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.

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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.

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.

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

According to his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure ( 1953 ), Cousteau started diving with Fernez goggles in 1936, and in 1939 used the self contained underwater breathing apparatus invented in 1926 by Commander Yves le Prieur.

With the publication of his first book in 1953, The Silent World, he correctly predicted the existence of the echolocation abilities of porpoises.

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

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.

In France, Aqualung diving was popularized by Cousteau's movie Épaves, while his book The Silent World also helped significantly.

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.

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

Chasing Amy, released in 1997, reveals that in the years since the events of Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob have found out that comic book artists Holden McNeil ( Ben Affleck ) and Banky Edwards ( Jason Lee ) created a popular independent comic book series entitled Bluntman and Chronic which stars the duo.

* Jay and Silent Bob made a cameo in issue # 79 of Terry Moore's long-running comic book Strangers in Paradise.

After getting a restraining order from Randal Graves ( Jeff Anderson ) for selling drugs ( including to minors ) and constant harassment, Jay and Silent Bob ( Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith ) find out from Brodie ( Jason Lee ) that Bluntman and Chronic, the comic book based on their likenesses, has been adapted into a film in production by Miramax Films.

Smith's comic book store, Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, which is the setting of the AMC reality television series, Comic Book Men, is also located there.

An oft-quoted case is that of DDT, an example of a widely used ( and maybe misused ) pesticide, which was brought to public attention by Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring.

* 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.

Early ties were already visible in the " Apologie " of William the Silent, condemning the Spanish Inquisition, which was written by his court minister, the Huguenot Pierre L ' Oyseleur, lord of Villiers.

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.

Jay and Silent Bob are fictional characters portrayed by Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith, respectively, in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse, a fictional universe created and used in most of the films, comics and television programs written and produced by Smith, beginning with Clerks.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a 2001 American comedy film directed, written by, and starring Kevin Smith as Silent Bob, the fifth to be set in his View Askewniverse, a growing collection of characters and settings that developed out of his cult favorite Clerks.

The incidental music for Silent Witness is written by BAFTA nominated composer Sheridan Tongue.

The rest of the album contained original songs created by him or members of his family, including " Season's Greetings ", " You're All I Want And Need For Christmas ", " It's Christmas All Over The World ", " Christmas Eve's Blues ", " Something Good This Christmas ", and " The Bethlehem Story ", a rewrite of Burke's own version of The Little Town of Bethlehem story, or The Night Before Christmas .” The final track on the album is " The Christmas Prayer ", a ' thank you ' sermon from Burke, which had been written by Burke in 1980, and released by Savoy Records in 1982 as the flip side to his cover of " Silent Night.

Clerks is a 1994 comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also appears in the film as Silent Bob.

* December 24 – " Silent Night " written by Josef Mohr and composed by Franz Xaver Gruber

After some success as a screenwriter — notably the Mel Brooks comedies Silent Movie ( 1976 ) and High Anxiety ( 1977 ) ( in which he played a bellboy ) and the Oscar-nominated script ( co-written by then-wife Valerie Curtin ) … And Justice for All ( 1979 ) — Levinson began his career as a director with Diner ( 1982 ), for which he had also written the script and which earned him a Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay.

* Molly Spotted Elk ( Mary Alice " Molly Dellis " Nelson Archambaud ), 1903 – 1977, internationally known dancer who starred in the classic film, " The Silent Enemy " ( 1930 ), written and produced by Douglas Burden.

It contains two songs written by Schickele and Diane Lampert — " Silent Running " and " Rejoice in the Sun " — which were performed by popular folk singer-songwriter Joan Baez.

Peter Haddon first played Wimsey in The Silent Passenger ( 1935 ), written by Sayers specifically for the screen.

In 2007, McFarland Publishing Company released a biography entitled Olive Thomas: The Life and Death of a Silent Film Beauty, written by Michelle Vogel.

* Picture Frame Seduction, " Forgotten Daughters " ( 1984 track on Hand of the Rider written for the Jon Amiel film The Silent Twins )

He was also noted as the author of That We May Live, written largely as a pro-development, pro-chemical pesticide answer to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, the seminal 1962 book that helped to spur the modern environmental movement.

* Bringing Up Father ( 1928 ) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Silent comedy directed by Jack Conway, written by Frances Marion with titles by Ralph Spence, starring J. Farrell MacDonald as Jiggs, Polly Moran as Maggie, Gertrude Omstead as their daughter ( renamed " Ellen "), and Jules Cowles and Marie Dressler as Mr. and Mrs. Dinty Moore.

The Dark Tower is an incomplete manuscript allegedly written by C. S. Lewis that appears to be an unfinished sequel to the science fiction novel, Out of the Silent Planet.

The Silent Miaow ( 1964 ) purports to be a guide written by a cat, " translated from the feline ", on how to obtain, captivate, and dominate a human family.