Hoboken experienced a wave of fires, some of which were arson.

In 2009 a wave of arson occurred in northern Lackawanna County, affecting Fell Township and the nearby borough of Vandling the hardest.

During this time period a wave of arson destroyed or damaged many of the residential, commercial, and industrial structures in the area.

After a wave of arson ravaged the low income communities of New York City throughout the 1970s, most of the residential structures in Morrisania were left seriously damaged or destroyed.

After a wave of arson ravaged the low income communities of New York City throughout the 1970s and " planned shrinkage " policies, many of the residential structures in East Harlem were left seriously damaged or destroyed.

The fire began on February 8 during " Black Saturday " where an intense heat wave, combined with arson, faulty electrical infrastructure and natural causes, led to hundreds of bush fires burning throughout the state of Victoria.

The wave of arson ended when community groups such as Banana Kelly and SEBCO began to protect the remaining tenement buildings.

After a wave of arson ravaged the low income communities of New York City throughout the 1970s, many if not most residential structures in Highbridge were left seriously damaged or destroyed.

After a wave of arson throughout the 1970s ravaged the low-income communities of New York City, many if not most of the residential structures in Brownsville were left seriously damaged or destroyed.

After a wave of arson ravaged the low income communities of New York City throughout the 1970s, many of the residential structures in Tremont were left seriously damaged or destroyed.

At this time a wave of arson destroyed or damaged many of the residential, commercial, and industrial structures in the area.

In 1860, Texas Senator Louis T. Wigfall alleged falsely that Wide Awakes were behind a wave of arson and vandalism in his home state of Texas.

The first of the Australian gold rushes, in the 1850s, began a large wave of immigration, with approximately two per cent of the population of the United Kingdom emigrating to the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.

Related to similar media sources, the cosplay community forms a subculture centered around wearing costumes and reenacting scenes or inventing likely behavior inspired by their chosen sources, usually from Japan, Taiwan, South Korea ( a. k. a. Korean wave ), China, and Philippines media.

" However, by 1874, a new wave of paramilitary organizations arose in the Deep South.

More South Slavs came in a second wave, and according to some scholars were invited by Emperor Heraclius to drive the Avars from Dalmatia.

Soon after Walpole returned to the Cabinet, Britain was swept by a wave of over-enthusiastic speculation which led to the South Sea Bubble.

Fantasia is also referenced in the animated series South Park in the episode " Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls ", where Mr. Hankey dons a wizard outfit and drives out an independent film festival by summoning a wave of sewage, similar to Mickey's dream of summoning a storm in The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Some of the abandoned structures from the first wave still stand in South Dakota.

The first wave of German immigration to Australia began in 1838, with the arrival of Prussian Lutheran settlers in South Australia ( see German settlement in Australia ).

The timing of this influence was significant, coming on the crest of a wave of evangelical revival, the Reveil ( Awakening ) in the Dutch Reformed Church which had been led in South Africa by the Scottish preacher, Andrew Murray.

Starting 25 years ago, a large wave of African-American families, many from South Los Angeles bought homes in affordable middle-class areas which gave Perris an above-average black percentage in any California city.

By this time, South Deerfield and other New England villages were already absorbing a new wave of Eastern European immigration, particularly from Poland.

Patient work by the ANC slowly rebuilt the organisation inside South Africa and it was the ANC, with communists in prominent positions, who were able to capitalize on the wave of anger that swept young South Africans during and after the Soweto Uprising of 1976.

Rock music's origins lie mostly in the music of the American South, and many stars from the first wave of 1950s rock and roll such as Bo Diddley, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino, and Jerry Lee Lewis hailed from the Deep South.

* BBC Asian Network: aimed at the large South Asian community in the UK ( primarily a digital radio station, but available in parts of the Midlands on medium wave )

The NLF launched a wave of attacks on the morning of 30 January in the I and II Corps Tactical Zones of South Vietnam.

McNicoll ( 2006 ) examines the common features behind the striking changes in health and fertility in East and Southeast Asia in the 1960s – 1990s, focusing on seven countries: Taiwan and South Korea (" tiger " economies ), Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia (" second wave " countries ), and China and Vietnam (" market-Leninist " economies ).

Miami Vice is to some degree credited with causing a wave of support for the preservation of Miami's famous Art Deco architecture in the mid 1980s-to-early 1990s ; quite a few of those buildings, among them many beachfront hotels, have been renovated since filming, making that part of South Beach one of South Florida's most popular places for tourists and celebrities.

In the Western Cape Province of South Africa, a heat wave can occur when a low pressure offshore and high pressure inland combine to form a Bergwind.

The 2009 South Eastern Australia Heat Wave caused the city of Melbourne, Australia to experience some major power disruptions which left over half a million people without power as the heat wave blew transformers and overloaded a power grid.

* In early 2009, Adelaide, South Australia was hit by a heat wave with temperatures reaching 40 + ° C for six days in a row, while many rural areas experienced temperatures hovering around about mid 40s ° C ( mid 110s ° F ).

In recent years a wave of tribute acts has emerged from primarily the Tampa Bay area and South Florida.

In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, a wave of Chicano pop music surfaced through innovative musicians Johnny Rodriguez, Ritchie Valens and Linda Ronstadt.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the development of the Westrex single-groove stereophonic record cutterhead led to the next wave of home-audio improvement, and in common parlance, stereo displaced hi-fi.

Many from Finland used this opportunity to secure better paying jobs in Sweden in the 1950s and 1960s, dominating Sweden's first wave of post-war labour immigrants.

In the late 1960s, a wave of Mexican rock heavily influenced by psychedelia and funk emerged, especially in several northern border Mexican states, in particular, Tijuana, Baja California.

Music historians typically divide the history of ska into three periods: the original Jamaican scene of the 1960s ( First Wave ), the English 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s ( Second Wave ) and the third wave ska movement, which started in the 1980s ( Third Wave ) and rose to popularity in the US in the 1990s.

However, by the late 1960s, many of Structuralism's basic tenets came under attack from a new wave of predominantly French intellectuals such as the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault, the philosopher and social commentator Jacques Derrida, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, and the literary critic Roland Barthes.

The rise of Nasser foreshadowed a wave of revolutions throughout the Middle East in the 1950s and 1960s, with the collapse of the monarchies of Iraq, Egypt, and Libya.

The attitude of the counter-culture of the 1960s and The New Left promoted a recovery of the self in the wave, of what was deemed, a flawed, corrupt, and almost fascistic, America.

During the economic miracle of the 1950s and 1960s, a large wave of internal migration, especially peasants from rural areas of Southern Italy, moved to the city.

The economic boom was however overshadowed in the late 1960s and early 1970s during the so-called Years of Lead, when Milan witnessed an unprecedented wave of street violence, labour strikes and political terrorism.

The Catalogs publication both emerged from and spurred the great wave of experimentalism, convention-breaking, and do-it-yourself attitude of the late 1960s.

John Harris typified this wave of Britpop bands, and Gallagher, of sharing " a dewy-eyed love of the 1960s, a spurning of much beyond rock's most basic ingredients, and a belief in the supremacy of ' real music '".

As the 1960s and 1970s approached, Lourenço Marques was yet again at the center of a new wave of architectural influences made most popular by Pancho Guedes.

The pro-CPC movements were, in many cases, based among the wave of student radicalism that engulfed the world in the 1960s and 1970s.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, a wave of Pan-Africanism swept through Central Africa, expressed by leaders such as Julius Nyerere in Tanzania and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo.

After the new wave of social realist theatre in the 1950s and 1960s, the play fell out of fashion, and was dismissed as an example of outdated bourgeois " drawing room " dramas, and became a staple of regional repertory theatre.

In the 1950s and 1960s, German immigration continued as part of a large post-war wave of European immigration to Australia.

The AZUSA continuous wave tracking system was added to the Cape in the mid-1950s and Grand Bahama in the early 1960s.

The term is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, beginning with Bob Dylan and The Byrds ; reaching its greatest popularity in the 1970s with artists like Emmylou Harris and the Eagles.

Rock and roll has often been seen as a combination of rhythm and blues with country music, a fusion particularly evident in 1950s rockabilly, and there has been cross-pollination throughout the history of both genres, however, the term country-rock is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians of the late 1960s and early 1970s who began to record rock records using country themes, vocal styles and additional instrumentation, most characteristically pedal steel guitar.

Tiki rode a wave of popularity in the late 1950s and early 1960s marked by the entrance of Hawaii as the 50th state in 1959 and the introduction of Tiki hut bars and restaurants around the continental United States.

A great wave of kibbutz industrialization came in the 1960s, and only 15 % of kibbutz members worked in agriculture.

The opening of the Connecticut Turnpike in the 1950s brought another wave of development to Fairfield, and by the 1960s the town's residential, suburban character was firmly established.

Her domestic and foreign politics lie within the strict lines of Pacifism, and despite overwhelming unpopularity at the time, have resulted in a legacy that helped propel the second wave of feminism and pacifism during the 1960s and 1970s.