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9 unusual facts about boom


Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom

On 28 July 2000, Vengaboys performed the song twice at the Stadium Merdeka in Malaysia.

Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia

The site (Bouckaert Farm) was chosen due to its resemblance to Boom, a Belgian town which traditionally hosts the Tomorrowland festival it was spun off from.

Joe Abraham

He is best known for his work as the artist on the comic, Hero Squared published by Boom! Studios.

Life Could Be A Dream

"Sh-Boom", sometimes referred to as "Life Could Be a Dream".

Shane Oakley

Boom! Studios' Cthulhu Tales #2 (published April 2008) featured a story entitled The Hiding Place written by Steve Niles and illustrated by Oakley.

Starborn

Starborn (Benjamin Warner) is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Boom! Studios.

The Kelley Deal 6000

In February 1997, the band worked on their second album, Boom! Boom! Boom!.

Warhammer Monthly

In 2006, Games Workshop licensed the comic books rights to Boom! Studios.

Wizards of Mickey

In September 2009, Boom! Studios began releasing the storyline in the United States in the monthly Mickey Mouse and Friends.


A Music Fairy

Ahmad Haseeb uses rare music videos of Nazia and Zoheb like Disco Deewane, Boom Boom, Mujhay Chahie, Telephone Pyar & Hulla Gulla Karien Hum.

Al-Azm family

Al-Azm's era brought a building boom to Damascus where dozens of baths, khans, schools and souqs were built, many of which still remain today.

Alfred Balk

Among other prominent articles, for The Reader’s Digest he reported on nursing-home neglect, threats to public parkland, Great Lakes water problems, boating-boom safety hazards, and Thomas Edison remembered by a son; for The Reporter, the social significance of Ebony magazine founder John Johnson’s success; and for The New York Times Magazine, the “Dust Bowl” revisited.

Ardsley, New York

This second boom led to the eventual construction of several village schools, including Concord Road Elementary School (1952), Ardsley High School (1958), and Ardsley Middle School (1967).

Bamberton, British Columbia

The demand for cement in the building boom of the times outstripped the capacity of the Tod Inlet operation and leading the company to construct a further plant at Bamberton which opened in 1912 under the name Associated Cement Company.

Basilica of St. John the Baptist

The St. John's Basilica-Cathedral was contemporary with and part of the great boom in church construction which surrounded the era of Daniel O'Connell and Catholic emancipation in Ireland and Newfoundland.

Bicaz

This, together with the construction of a hydroelectric power plant in Stejaru (10 km to the east) triggered a relative economic boom during the communist period.

Boom Desjardins

As an infant, he learned to walk at an early age and was a boisterous child; his family noted the similarity to the character of Bamm-Bamm (in Quebec French, "Boum-Boum") from the popular television show The Flintstones, and began calling him "Boom" as a result.

Boom FM

It is the only Boom FM station not using the classic hits format, though its logo uses the same lettering and 45 RPM plastic insert device as its Quebec counterparts.

Boston Dynamics

The original Cheetah robot runs on a high-speed treadmill in the laboratory where it is powered by an off-board hydraulic pump and uses a boom-like device to keep it running in the center of the treadmill.

Carson City, Michigan

The name Carson City was given to the post office by Thomas Scott, who had been in Carson City, Nevada, during the gold and silver mining boom days.

Charles Vernon Culver

Culver also attempted to establish the Reno-Pithole railroad, to run between Reno and Pithole, Pennsylvania, the leading oil boom town at the time.

Chick Chick Boom

Like Mission in Snowdriftland, Chick Chick Boom was scored by Fabian Del Priore.

Clancy Lowered the Boom

"Clancy Lowered the Boom" is a song written by Hy Heath and Johnny Lange in 1947, made famous by Dennis Day on Jack Benny's radio program (The Jack Benny Program).

Dortmunder Actien Brauerei

In 1881, Carl von Linde himself equipped the brewery with one of his refrigeration machines, allowing for a boom of bottom-fermented beer.

Economy of Belgium

The postwar boom years, enhanced by the establishment of the European Union and NATO headquarters in Brussels, contributed to the rapid expansion of light industry throughout most of Flanders, particularly along a corridor stretching between Brussels and Antwerp, which is the second largest port in Europe after Rotterdam.

Exeter, Pennsylvania

In the 1830s the region entered a boom period and began shipping coal by the Pennsylvania Canal, and by the 1840s even down the Lehigh Canal to Allentown, Philadelphia, Trenton, Wilmington, New York City, and other east coast cities and ports via the connecting engineering works of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company such as the upper Lehigh Canal, the Ashley Planes and the early Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, along with other railroads that flocked to or were born in the area.

Governor's Bridge, Toronto

The west part of the neighbourhood was quickly built up during the Roaring Twenties boom period, and most of the houses date from this era.

Gripping Sailor's hitch

The Gripping Sailor's Hitch(*) is a secure, jam-proof hitch used to tie one rope to another, or a rope to a pole, boom, spar, etc., when the pull is lengthwise along the object.

Hazel Dell, Washington

Much of the housing boom in this area has subsided due to the increase of homes being built to the east of Vancouver, between Interstate 205 and Camas and Washington State Route 500/Fourth Plain Blvd. and the Columbia River.

Holtville, California

The construction of railroads in the 1890s, the All-American Canal in the late 1940s, U.S. Route 80 in the 1920s later converted to Interstate 8 in the 1970s and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) economic boom in the 1990s brought more people to Holtville and the Imperial Valley.

Indeevar

Nazia Hassan's famous songs "Aap Jaisa Koi", "Boom Boom", "Meherbani", "Dil ki Lagi" & Zohaib Hassan's "Star" was written by Indeevar.

James Hickman

The company made From Bomb to Boom (about the Manchester bomb) for ITV1, Cartoon Kings presented by Sir David Jason (about animators Cosgrove and Hall) for ITV1 and Another Fine Mess for BBC Radio 2, presented by Sir Norman Wisdom (celebrating 80 years of Laurel and Hardy).

Jhigli

Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens has seen a tremendous amount of newly opened Bangladeshi restaurants mainly by Sylhetis and a great influx of such residents attracted by the real estate boom there.

Kee Marcello

Namely, Canadian band The Moffats number one hit single "Bang Bang Boom", the title song for R&R Hall Of Fame inductee Percy Sledge's 2004 album Shining Through the Rain, and 3 consecutive platinum albums for Swedish singer Pandora in Japan.

Keith Famie

'Our India Story' follows Indian Americans through challenges and boom times and celebrates their assimilation into the world of medicine, business and religion.

Kike Posada

He is the founder of BOOM Magazine & BOOM Promotions and music correspondent for Caracol Radio WSUA Miami and the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.

King Khan and the Shrines

The original lineup of the (Sensational) Shrines consisted of King Khan on vocals and guitars, Mr. Speedfinger on guitar, Boom Boom Jennes on bass, John Boy Adonis on "big beat," Sam Cook on trumpet, percussionist Ron (a.k.a. Rahn) Streeter (who formerly played for Ike and Tina Turner, Bo Diddley, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, and Al Jarreau), Ben Ra on saxophone and Mr. Tom Bone on trombone.

Louisiana Highway 110

Longville, at the height of the logging boom, was the site of one of the largest sawmills in Louisiana founded by Robert A. Long.

Mark Ripple

Investors who bought dot-com shares at the height of the boom and horseplayers who bet on War Emblem, Funny Cide, and Smarty Jones at the Belmont all took a loss on their wagers.

Mochovce

In contrast, the power plant construction has brought an economic and demographic boom to the nearby town of Levice in the 1980s.

Moshi Monsters

The Moshi Monster TV show features music from: Sonic Boom, Beatie Wolfe, The Blackout (band), Portia Conn, Mop Top Tweeny Bop, Merry Twistmas.

Motion Pictures, S.A.

Coinciding with early nineties when the video boom was over the company began to buy American film catalogs for television distribution, with titles such Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of the Jedi, Apocalypse Now, and Tucker.

Nick Broomfield

Each of these featured Broomfield with his trademark sound boom "investigating" rumours about the soon-to-be released Volkswagen Passat.

Old Aberdeen

Since the 1960s, and the North Sea oil boom of the 1970s, however, housing development has surrounded the area, in particular with the nearby Tillydrone development.

Old Airport Road, Bangalore

Beyond that, the road officially becomes Varthur Road, but ever since the real estate boom started around 2003, builders have started calling the stretch between the Airport and the Marathahalli Outer Ring Road as Old Airport Road.

Olisipo

The city came to be very prosperous through suppression of piracy and technological advances, which allowed a boom in the trade with the newly Roman Provinces of Britannia (particularly Cornwall) and the Rhine, and through the introduction of Roman culture to the tribes living by the river Tagus in the interior of Hispania.

Oliver Ressler

Many of Ressler’s works have been realized in collaborations: “Boom!” focuses on the central contradictions of globalized capitalism (with David Thorne), “European Corrections Corporation” on the phenomenon of prison privatization (with Martin Krenn), and “What Would It Mean To Win?” on the protests against the 33rd G8-summit in Heiligendamm (with Zanny Begg).

Patricia Alcivar

Patricia Alcivar aka "Patty Boom Boom Alcivar"(born December 12, 1977) is a professional boxer, competitive road and adventure racer, model and commercial/fitness actress.

Real estate in Bangladesh

Real estate in Bangladesh has developed dramatically in recent years due to the construction boom and increasing number of high-rise buildings in the major urban centers of the country, most notably Dhaka and Chittagong.

Russ Lorenson

The multi-talented artist plunged into the high-tech world just as the dot-com boom was exploding.

RV Belgica

New Belgica (barque) The project to recreate the RV Belgica (1884) at De Steenschuit's yard in Boom, Antwerp.

St. Lawrence Boom and Lumber Company

The St. Lawrence Boom and Lumber Company is one of the "central backdrops" to the plot of Pocahontas County author W. E. Blackhurst book, "Riders of the Flood." Every September the town of Ronceverte holds an outdoor drama of Riders of the Flood just belowstream the location of the mill company.

Streetboys

The Streetboys became known for it's 1997 smash hit "Boom Tiyaya", which was composed by the Pastor brothers (Eazer and Edwin).

Table Rock, Wyoming

Table Rock was built in the late 1970s by Colorado Interstate Gas (CIG) as a company town, to house workers during an area boom and housing shortage.

The Black and White Album

The song "Tick Tick Boom" was the official theme song for WWE's Survivor Series 2007 and also featured in the Madden NFL 11 soundtrack.

Three Little Fishies

In a 1981 Episode of Three's Company, a wacky misunderstanding occurs when Jack and Janet overhear a psychiatrist played by Jeffrey Tambor repeatedly saying "boom, boom, dittum dottem..." while trying to remember the words to this song to help him get through to a patient.

Tyson Mao

Tyson began solving the cube during the Rubik's Cube's second boom in 2003, first using a beginner's method, then the Petrus and Fridrich methods.


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