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unusual facts about Bubble



A Genuine Freakshow

At this time both Simon Evans and Tim Sutcliffe, later to perform to an assemblage of professional traffic management staff an impromptu but highly competent and influential version of Tom McRae's 'The Boy with the Bubble Gun', were studying at the Buckinghamshire New University.

Alcubierre drive

For example, if one wanted to travel to Deneb 2,600 light years away and arrive less than 2,600 years in the future according to external clocks, it would be required that someone had already begun work on warping the space from Earth to Deneb at least 2,600 years ago, in which case "A spaceship appropriately located with respect to the bubble trajectory could then choose to enter the bubble, rather like a passenger catching a passing trolley car, and thus make the superluminal journey."

Amanda Shaw

Shaw has recorded two independently released albums, Little Black Dog (2001) and I'm Not a Bubble Gum Pop Princess (2004) -- the latter including traditional Cajun melodies as well as eclectic choices like The Clash's Should I Stay or Should I Go and The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" (changed to "Girlfriend").

ArsDigita

The company produced a popular Open Source toolkit, the ArsDigita Community System (ACS), for building database-backed community websites, and flourished at the peak of the Internet bubble.

Aularches miliaris

If its thorax is pinched, it also squirts a clear viscous mucus with unpleasant smell and a bitter taste, faintly alkaline, with many embedded bubbles.

Beijing National Aquatics Center

The complex Weaire–Phelan pattern was developed by slicing through bubbles in soap foam, resulting in more irregular, organic patterns than foam bubble structures proposed earlier by the scientist Kelvin.

Betta rutilans

Like most Betta fish, they breed in bubble-nests built to house the fry.

Big Blue Bubble

Establishing itself as a promising mobile games developer, Big Blue Bubble built upon this early success and exposure by forming strong relationships with some of the most influential international publishers: THQ Wireless, Hands-On Mobile (MForma), Blaze, I-Play and I-Win.

Bubble Boy

Severe combined immunodeficiency, sometimes called bubble boy disease, a genetic disorder which results in an extreme vulnerability to infectious diseases

Bubble canopy

A bubble canopy is a canopy made without bracing, which attempts to provide 360° vision to the pilot.

Although it never went into production the concept of the bubble canopy was utilised on other British aircraft, such as the Hawker Typhoon and Tempest.

The British had already developed the "Malcolm hood", which was a bulged canopy, but the British Miles M.20 was one of the first aircraft designs to feature a true bubble canopy.

Bubble car

Most bubble cars were manufactered in Germany, including by the former German military aircraft manufacturers, Messerschmitt and Heinkel.

Bubble Gang

Yaya and Angelina: The Spoiled Brat Movie — a film based on a Bubble Gang sketch with the same name.

Bubble Ghost

These can be all controlled by the ghost, who can wander around the level freely and blow at things - such as the bubble to add speed, the candle to put out the flame, or switches to turn them on or off.

Bubble oxygenator

A bubble oxygenator is an early implementation of the oxygenator used for Cardiopulmonary bypass.

Bubble sort

However, some researchers such as Owen Astrachan have gone to great lengths to disparage bubble sort and its continued popularity in computer science education, recommending that it no longer even be taught.

Chicago real estate bubble of the 1830s

Edward Glaeser, professor of economics at Harvard, notes that the Chicago property bubble was more a product of unpredictability than irrationality.

Cuyahoga Land Bank

It was established to respond to the effects of the United States housing bubble in Cleveland and surrounding Cuyahoga County, where the housing bubble had a particularly strong impact.

David Vetter

In 1977, researchers from NASA used their experience with the fabrication of space suits to develop a special suit that would allow Vetter to get out of his bubble and walk in the outside world.

Desha Delteil

A few years later, her "bubble dance" in the 1929 Hollywood musical Glorifying the American Girl made her well known.

Don Nottebart

When Lucy gets a hold of a bubble-gum card of Charlie Brown's (fictional) idol Joe Shlabotnik, he offers to trade dozens of cards, including Nottebart's, for Shlabotnik's, but she refuses.

Early 2000s recession

The actual burst of the stock market bubble occurred in the form of the NASDAQ crash in March 2000.

Fleer

In 1995, Fleer acquired the trading card company SkyBox International and, over Thanksgiving vacation shuttered its Philadelphia plant (where Dubble Bubble was made for 67 years).

Greene's Tu Quoque

Bubble enjoys the reverse fortune, coming into money – yet he remains true to his master, the gentlemanly Staines, mourning the man's decline and urging him to repair his fortunes...by robbery ("if we be taken, we'll hang together at Tyburn").

Grey Blackwell

Blackwell's caricature of LeBron James was featured on the packaging for "LeBron's Lightning Lemonade" flavor of Bubblicious bubble gum.

Haiphong

Fan Yang (1962– ) Canadian bubble artist, 16-time Guinness World Records holder (born in Vietnam, his mother is a Haiphong native)

Hubble bubble

Hubble Bubble, a variant of bubble and squeak from English cuisine

Jesse Colombo

In October 2013, Jesse issued a warning about Malaysia's economic bubble on his Forbes column, which made news headlines and prompted a response from the country's leaders, including Zeti Akhtar Aziz (the governor of Malaysia’s central bank), Mustapa Mohamed (International Trade and Industry Minister), and Lim Guan Eng (Chief Minister of the State of Penang).

Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast

As the water drains into the floor, a very angry King Goobot shows up and traps Jimmy and Goddard in a floating bubble while forcing the audience and Carl to listen to the Chicken Dance as the seats move and bounce to the song.

Lucky Bag

For variety of contents, a regular Lucky Bag may vie with the caldron that witches boil and bubble “at the pit of Acheron.”

María Clara gown

The saya is a skirt shaped like a bubble with a length that begins from the waist reaching the floor.

Mr. Bubble

In The Simpsons episode "My Sister, My Sitter", Lisa tells Bart that he can use Mr. Bubble to wash his hands and says "It's like giving your fingers a bubble bath."

My Singing Monsters

In July 2013, Big Blue Bubble announced that they had collaborated with Grammy Award-winning artist Kristian Bush from American country music duo Sugarland to create a new character, the Shugabush.

Parasol Stars

There are eight main planets; however, in order to complete the game properly, the player must open a secret door on the final planet by collecting three of the Star items - allowing access to 2 secret planets, themed around Bubble Bobble and Chack'n Pop that are not initially visible on the main screen.

PC/Computing

When the technology bubble burst in mid-2000, the rechristened "Ziff-Davis Smart Business" lost its ad market.

Peter Hartcher

Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing 7 Trillion Dollars, Hartcher's critique of the Federal Reserve Board's management of the US economy through the years of irrational exuberance, was published in 2004 to a mixed reception in the US, where Greenspan retained his iconic status, but was met with greater critical enthusiasm internationally.

Reggae Gold 2012

The first disc featured the recent hits, including Konshens’ “Gal a Bubble” and ”Do Sum'n”, Popcaan’s “Only Man She Want”, Busy Signal’s “Come Over (Missing You)”, Cham’s “Wine”, Sean Paul’s “She Doesn't Mind”, Potential Kidd’s “Yah Suh Nice”, Christopher Martin’s “Cheater's Prayer”, Tarrus Riley’s “Not Missing You”, Gyptian’s “Overtime” and more.

Screen pass

The bubble screen was essentially created by Don Read when he was head coach of the Montana Grizzlies, and Lou Holtz, head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, brought the play into prominence after calling Read and asking for the play.

Solar wind

The solar wind flows outward supersonically to great distances, filling a region known as the heliosphere, an enormous bubble-like volume surrounded by the interstellar medium.

Spirit level

These vials, common on most ordinary levels today, have a slightly curved glass tube which is incompletely filled with a liquid, usually a colored spirit or alcohol, leaving a bubble in the tube.

The Billion Dollar Bubble

The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two billion dollar insurance embezzlement scheme involving Equity Funding Corporation of America.

The Bubble

I Phouska ("The Bubble"), a 2001 Greek film by Nikos Perakis

The Great American Bubble Factory

The Great American Bubble Factory is the twelfth album from Southern rock group Drivin N Cryin.

Thomas Onslow, 2nd Baron Onslow

As Lord Onslow he was a leading participant in an insurance business known as Onslow's Insurance or Onslow's Bubble, which secured incorporation under the Bubble Act as Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation.

Tiltmeter

A newer technology uses Microelectromechanical systems electronics, but it is not clear whether this can eventually displace the common bubble.

Westminster Bubble

More recently, in Scotland, there has been a development of a "Holyrood bubble", as the Scottish Parliament is in the Holyrood district of Edinburgh.

ZyWeb

Venture capital was attracted and millions of dollars were burned before the bubble burst and Zy.com collapsed.


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