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n. (plural of boomer English)

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Boomers (Oklahoma settlers)

Boomers is the name given to settlers in the Southern United States who attempted to enter the Unassigned Lands in what is now the state of Oklahoma in 1879, prior to President Grover Cleveland opening them to settlement by signing the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889 on March 2, 1889. Boomers preceded by a decade the Sooners, settlers who entered the Unassigned Lands just prior to the April 22, 1889 official opening.

The term "Boomer," in relation to Oklahoma, refers to participants in the "Boomer Movement." These participants were white settlers who believed the Unassigned Lands were public property and open to anyone for settlement, not just Indian tribes. Their belief was based on a clause in the Homestead Act of 1862 which said that any settler could claim of "public land." Some Boomers entered the Unassigned Lands and were removed more than once by the United States Army. Charles C. Carpenter was the earliest leader of the Boomer movement, succeeded by David L. Payne, who was succeeded by William L. Couch.

After its founding in 1890, the University of Oklahoma adopted "Boomers" as the nickname of their football team, after having first tried "Rough Riders." In 1908, the name was changed to "Sooners", the current team name.

Boomers (TV series)

Boomers is a British television sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC One on 15 August 2014. The show was originally titled Grey Mates but was changed to Boomers in June 2014. Spanning two series and a special, it follows the ups and downs of three late middle-aged recently retired (or due to retire) couples who live in Thurnemouth, 'Norfolk's only west-facing resort'. The series was written by Richard Pinto, directed by Adam Miller and made by Hat Trick Productions. Paul Schlesinger is the producer and Jimmy Mulville is the executive producer for Hat Trick Productions.

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He also has to assume they may have been sunk intentionally and that all our boomers are now at risk.

Remember, our boomers stream the towed array for the specific purpose of avoiding any such surprises.

Washington, was a base especially for the boomers, and Buck Nelson presented his family with a brand-new house that had been built on a freshly cleared lot in a lovely grove of Douglas fir.

Soviet masking device that allowed their boomers to imitate the sound signature of American boomers.

But to reinforce that, it appears statistically almost impossible that two of our boomers could be lost as the result of an engineering casualty in this manner.

Americans already knew about the fate of their boomers was indeed complex, much more complex than the KGB director could explain to the General Secretary.

He said nothing about it to anyone because he knew Navy doctors, especially those who constantly evaluated the captains of boomers, might determine he was unstable.

Or you could have one of their boomers moving along at maneuvering speed, hardly making a sound and only five miles away.

Those boomers were exceedingly quiet and she would be tough to locate.

He wanted them to have something more to worry about than the masking device that made Soviet boomers sound American.

To send a warning to all boomers could tip off the Russians if they were involved, possibly even cause other subs to be sunk before a solution could be found.

These are the boomers, the drifters, the hard travelers, and the tramp diggers who roam the long highways of the West as regularly and as stoically as other men ride the subways of New York City.

Unlike the other boomers I met, Bob Barnes has gone the whole route and found it pretty barren in the homestretch.

Tenia threw a handful of boomers into the smoke and was rewarded with explosions.

The room was too big for anything really direct like sub-bass boomers, squarks or miniclicks.