They may be ball-shaped and float through the air or roll around on the ground. ... Thunder is what comes after lightning. Thunder is the loud and explosive sound, which is produced by a lightning strike. ... The farther the lightning is from the listener, the less loud and clear the sound of the thunder is. However, thunder can seldom be heard if the lightning bolt occurred over 24 km away from the listener. ...
One of the most prominent approaches was Operation Rolling Thunder which ended in a strategic US failure. Rolling Thunder was the name for the aerial bombardment against North Vietnam, the US dropped more bombs in Vietnam than they did in WWII. ... Johnson had stopped Rolling Thunder in order to start peace talks in '69. Another strategy which wasn't very effective was the bombing of the Ho Chi Minh trails in Laos, titled Operation Barrel Roll, Steel Tiger, and Tiger Hound. ...
The water from the spirit river rolled along the valleys behind him, forming streams and rivers. ... In the sky, with the clashing of the clouds and the sun, a boisterous thunderstorm rolled through the land causing flooding. ... All the components of a thunderstorm, the thunder, the lightning, and the rain, lead to the fertilization and the growth on the new found landscape. ...
When looking intellectually at songs of the rock and roll genre, it is rare for a song to stand up under close scrutiny. ... The first of which is from the beginning to "Thunder bolt and lightning very, very firght"ning me." ... The experience of listening to Bohemian Rhapsody is just that, an experience, and one which makes the glorified ditties and jingles that make up so much of rock n" roll and popular music seem even that much more lacking by comparison. ...
The advent of electrical technology has revolutionized rock and roll. Rock and roll was able to make its leap to the popular music of our country only through the innovations of new recording and midi technology. ... Many look at rock and roll to be a transportation of feeling. ... One could hit a key on a keyboard and the note of the tympani would sound like thunder. ... Every piece of rock and roll recorded after Sgt. ...
The success of "Work with Me Annie" led to a numerous number of songs such as "Annie's Aunt Fannie," Henry's Got Flat Feet (Can't Dance No More)," and Etta James' "answer" song "Roll with Me Henry" renamed "The Wallflower". ... Another unusual fact about the two songs was that cover songs of the original piece was said to be an R & B style of the original rock and roll/pop style. ... "These covers stole a lot of the thunder from the original performers, at a time when rock & roll was struggling to gain a foothold in the pop mainstream." ...
The Ghosts of Vilnius In December 2001, Lithuanian workers made a strange discovery. On the side of a hill at Siaures Miestelis, north of Vilnius (the modern town of Vilna), they were surprised to uncover a multitude of skeletons, all piled haphazardly in a communal pit. Among the remains they di...
Alexander Pope began "The Rape of the Lock" in 1711 after an incident involving two families he knew. It was an attempt to calm tempers after a dispute which cropped up between two families when Lord Petre cut a lock of hair from Arabella Fermor as a prank. Mr Caryl, who was acquainted with Mr. Po...
