And schools are still "coasting".
Birds often vocalize during the flapping phase of the pattern and then go silent during the coasting phase.
Hundreds of so-called tsunami stones, some more than six centuries old, dot the coast of Japan, silent testimony to the past destruction that these lethal waves have frequented upon this earthquake-prone nation.
Opera Philadelphia is presenting the East Coast premiere of "Silent Night" at the Academy of Music in an impressive co-production with Minnesota Opera, which commissioned and unveiled the piece in November 2011.
They know it is madness that so-called progressive, liberal, human-rights, or social-justice people of any race or culture have remained mightily silent as these police shootings have been going down coast to coast.
Dripping wet, traumatised and silent, a young man washed up on the British coast apparently unable to communicate except via the keys of a piano.
WHEN Rachel Carson built a summer cottage on the Maine coast in 1953, she had not yet written "Silent Spring," the work that arguably inspired the modern environmental movement.
The Wave Gliders' stealthy profile and ability to run silent for months at a time has obvious military uses patrolling coasts, tracking enemy vessels though the robots' pokey pace is a drawback, Harris allows.
Assateague is a 37-mile-long barrier island off the coast of Maryland and Virginia, and in the off-season it is silent, except for the surf and birds, with very few people and no artificial lighting.
On Oct. 21, Al Jazeera offered silent footage of Bright Star, a joint Egyptian-American military exercise, off the coast of Egypt.
