Originally written as three stories but published in 1964 under the name of Ian Lancaster as one, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was an instant success.
The series ended quite literally with a bang, in an impressive gas explosion.
Nobody knows what will happen in Pakistan, but I feel as if I've been granted a vision of how the world will end, not with a bang but with an apocalypse of traffic.
It was just an accidental bang to my arm but the pain was excruciating.
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"There was an enormous bang and clouds and clouds of thick, black smoke, " she told CNN.
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However the big bang is not just an idle theory, it matters.
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"The next thing I knew, there was an enormous bang and all I could see outside was dust everywhere, " he said.
Mr Barrington said a recent experiment had resulted in a "very large bang" and "an awful lot of rust" falling off the fort.
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Aaron Mead, who lives about 100 yards (90m) from the scene, said he heard an "almighty bang".
Lyndsey Downes, who lives nearby, said she dialled 999 after she and her husband heard "an extremely loud bang".
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Nicky Morgan, MP for Loughborough, heard an "enormous bang" as she walked towards Vauxhall Tube before seeing "clouds of black smoke".
Always a summer highlight, the epic Sydney Festival is back with an even bigger bang in 2014, presenting a plethora of new Australian works that will have both Sydneysiders and visitors eager to get in on the action.
The campaign has garnered tremendous social buzz and earned media, giving the brand an immense marketing bang, all with relatively modest investment. (By the way, the two most honest cities in the latest tracking were Salt Lake City and Oakland.).
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But all good things come to an end, and great things come to an end with a bang.
If the calculation on vacuum instability stands up, it will revive an old idea that the Big Bang Universe we observe today is just the latest version in a permanent cycle of events.
So while I strongly prefer acting in a way that focuses on the middle class, that focuses on creating jobs, and that gets us the most bang for our buck, inaction is not an option.
The 1990 regulation requiring a broadcaster's owners to be "fit and proper" has been wielded only once in British history: against an adult-entertainment company called Bang Channels Ltd. whose licenses were revoked in late 2010 after airing content deemed too explicit.
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Because the early universe is believed to have undergone a period of rapid inflation, features that were Planck-scale may have been magnified to the point where they are visible as blips in the cosmic microwave background, an electromagnetic echo of the Big Bang.
Focus groups can be used to bang ideas off of and get some sensitivity to an idea.
Amateur video footage showed a bright white streak moving rapidly across the sky before exploding with an even brighter flash and a deafening bang.
The German song "Miss Kiss Kiss Bang" featured American artiste Dita Von Teese flinging an array of her clothing to the floor in an attempt to spice up the tedious music.
So while dry aged beef is an expensive luxury, you get more bang for your buck with a rich deep flavor in every bite that cannot be matched without dry aging, yet very few butcher shops or restaurants serve the stuff.
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Rehearsing the arguments, Mr Stannard examines the problem of consciousness, asks whether it makes sense to demand an explanation of what caused the Big Bang that created the universe, and questions the source of the laws of nature and the status of mathematics.
There's simply too much stuff for a two-hour feature, and three writers, including Tony Gilroy, haven't figured out how to boil it down into a readily comprehensible narrative, or how to solve the problem of an ending that goes blah rather than bang.
While SuccessFactors and Taleo (Nasdaq:TLEO) have done a bang-up job for enterprise HCM, Flip sees an even bigger opportunity for small- and medium-sized businesses.
The first day has already yielded the support of 13 companies and SUTC is definitely hawking up an online presence, and if it really blows up, the battle should end with an "in-your-face" bang either way.
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At a fundamental level, it also supports an "add-on" to this Big Bang theory known as inflation, which postulates that in the very first moments of its existence the Universe opened up in an exponential manner - faster than light itself.
His research project will now be one of 200 showcased to an audience of around 65, 000 during the Big Bang Fair in London from 14-17 March.
And an infinitely small universe is one that would undergo a Big Bang.
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