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    Request stop (redirect from Whistle stop)
    In public transport, a request stop, flag stop, or whistle stop is a stop or station at which buses or trains, respectively, stop only on request; that...
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  • Nintendo sponsored a crosscountry train competition called the Zelda Whistle Stop Tour. The event, which lasted three days, allowed select players to test...
    54 KB (5,506 words) - 00:42, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harry S. Truman 1948 presidential campaign
    "do-nothing Congress." In early September 1948, Truman conducted various whistle-stop tours across the nation, covering over 21,928 miles (35,290 km) on the...
    79 KB (9,436 words) - 11:41, 25 October 2024
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    especially in the United States. They were sometimes used by politicians in "whistle stop campaigns". Pay cars with less opulent sleeping and dining facilities...
    9 KB (965 words) - 14:17, 17 October 2024
  • campaign, he persuaded Truman, at the time an underdog, to launch a whistle stop tour of the Midwest. In 1949, Truman made Boyle the executive vice chairman...
    7 KB (813 words) - 02:15, 24 May 2024
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    ultimately SEPTA Regional Rail's R6 Norristown Line. SEPTA made the station a whistle stop and closed its waiting room in 1991. SEPTA later closed the station in...
    11 KB (921 words) - 20:27, 31 October 2024
  • February 1861 to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a whistle-stop tour en route to his inauguration. Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton...
    34 KB (3,302 words) - 20:41, 18 July 2024
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    been used by several recent presidents for various campaign related Whistle Stop Tours. Georgia 300, is a heavyweight observation car from the golden...
    8 KB (574 words) - 16:13, 12 September 2024
  • Divorce Court. He also appeared as Judge Herman Keene in the episode "Whistle Stop" in the legal drama L.A. Law. William Bigby Keene was born on February...
    4 KB (322 words) - 09:28, 26 March 2023
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    regularly accompanied him on campaign trips, such as the 1948 countrywide whistle-stop campaign lasting several weeks. She also appeared at important White...
    23 KB (1,980 words) - 22:14, 25 September 2024
  • overlooking the former Housatonic Valley rail-line, Hatch Pond, and the 'whistle-stop' South Kent station, and is itself overlooked by Bull Mountain. The school...
    27 KB (2,468 words) - 17:56, 21 February 2024
  • Hampton the Hampster. The song's hook is based on a sped-up sample of "Whistle-Stop", a song from the 1973 Disney film Robin Hood. This sample was originally...
    17 KB (1,741 words) - 16:06, 20 August 2024
  • almost in its entirety of an unofficial soundalike sampled loop from "Whistle Stop" by Roger Miller which was featured in the Disney movie Robin Hood, played...
    10 KB (1,196 words) - 19:08, 27 January 2024
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    Europe in November 2011. He guest starred in the In Plain Sight episode "Whistle Stop" as an ex-boxer/witness suffering from pugilistic dementia, and in the...
    18 KB (1,016 words) - 06:13, 9 October 2024
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    11-18-1896 cover A cabinet that could afford it William Jennings Bryan's whistle-stop campaign "Week by Week" Weekly Mail (22 May 1909): 6. Historical Society...
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    The Hindu. 8 August 2006. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 20 October 2016. "Whistle Stop: Punjabi Tadka". The Indian Express. 2 November 2011. Retrieved 20 October...
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  • empty |title= (help) "Billboard (magazine)". Billboard (Magazine). June 9, 1979. "Billboard (magazine)". Billboard (Magazine). Vol. 91, no. 13. March 31,...
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  • straightforward rockers like "Strawberry Wine", "Time to Kill" and "Just Another Whistle Stop", the funkier "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show", and Robertson's more...
    26 KB (2,234 words) - 23:51, 2 October 2024
  • a provocateur of beauty, Mobley is in a class all his own". Flophouse magazine noted "In the late sixties Hank Mobley’s round tone had become a bit rougher...
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  • Thumbnail for Martin Arnold (filmmaker)
    In a later group of short film loops such as Soft Palate (2010) and Whistle Stop (2014), Arnold seems to discover psychoanalytic underbellies in the most...
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