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5 unusual facts about S Line


Dmowski's Line

It was proposed by the Polish delegation at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and it was named after Roman Dmowski, Polish foreign minister.

Fyodor Pirotsky

In 1874 he started experiments on Volkov Field in Saint Petersburg and in 1875 he put electrically powered railway cars on the Sestroretsks railway Miller's line (not far from the station Miller's pier).

Miller's line

In 1875, on an area between Miller's pier and Sestroretsk rail station, the engineer Fyodor Pirotsky experimented on the adaptation of rail transport to be driven by an electrogalvanic cell.

By the mid-1880s the Society of the Sestroretsk railway was definitively ruined, and on January 1, 1886, the railway was closed.

S Line

S Castro Shuttle, a Muni Metro line in San Francisco, California, United States


Oriental Bird Club

The OBC's geographical area of interest ranges from the Indus River, Pakistan, in the west, through India and south-east Asia to Wallace's line, eastern Indonesia, in the east, and from Mongolia, north-east Russia (east of 90°E), and Japan in the north, to the Lesser Sundas and Christmas Island in the south.


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1994 Aloha Bowl

K-State's only score came with eight seconds left in the first quarter when Joe Gordon crashed the middle of BC's line and blocked a punt by Jeff Beckley.

A Woman Scorned

These titles are all an allusion to William Congreve's line "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned" from his 1697 play The Mourning Bride.

Ammanford railway station

Situated 12 miles (19.4 km) north of Swansea on today's Heart of Wales Line, the station was first opened in 1841 as a temporary terminus of the Llanelly Railway's line to Llandeilo (and branch to Cross Hands), making it one of the country's earliest railway stations.

Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company

At the time there was no railway east of the River Trent so the ore had to be taken to a wharf at Gunness (or Gunhouse), where it was loaded into barges or taken across the river to join the South Yorkshire Railway’s line from Keadby.

Baby Let's Play House

Presley's version differs greatly from the original: Elvis started the song with the chorus, where Gunter began with the first verse, and he replaced Gunter's line "You may get religion" with the words "You may have a Pink Cadillac", referring to his custom-painted 1955 Cadillac auto that had been serving as the band's transportation at the time.

Dash

Similarly, it can be used instead of an ellipsis to indicate aposiopesis, the rhetorical device by which a sentence is stopped short not because of interruption but because the speaker is too emotional to continue, such as Darth Vader's line "I sense something; a presence I've not felt since—" in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

Dedicated console

Of the latter, Jakks Pacific's line of TV Games is among the most famous, which includes re-releases of many vintage games, from arcade classics to Atari 2600 games, as well as games based on currently-popular characters, such as SpongeBob SquarePants.

Deviationism

Immediately after the Pact, Georgi Dimitrov, chief of the Comintern, sent a ciphered message to Browder explaining that the CPUSA’s line supporting the Pact was not fully correct because while it broke with President Franklin Roosevelt’s policy of supporting Britain, France, and Lend-Lease aid, it failed to take the additional step of breaking with FDR’s domestic policies as well.

Grand Elk Railroad

The railroad connects with three larger railroads, the Norfolk Southern (Elkhart), CSX (Grand Rapids) and Canadian National (Kalamazoo, Michigan)(Via CK&S Line(Kalamazoo Spur.), as well as four short line railroads, the Marquette Rail (Grand Rapids), Grand Rapids Eastern Railroad (Grand Rapids), Michigan Southern Railroad (White Pigeon, Michigan), and Grand Rapids Eastern Railroad (Grand Rapids).

Horemheb

At a well known 1987 Conference from Gothenburg, Sweden, Kenneth Kitchen astutely noted that any attempt to explain away the Year 59 Horemheb date as a "scribal error" fails to consider the long and volumnious listed series of court trials and legal setbacks which Mes' family endured in order to win back control over certain valuable lands which had been stolen from his family's line.

Hungry generation

They took the word Hungry from Geoffrey Chaucer's line "In Sowre Hungry Tyme" and they drew upon, among others, Oswald Spengler's histriographical ideas about the non-centrality of cultural evolution and progression, for philosophical inspiration.

Inge de Bruijn

She was the face for Dutch lingerie brand Sapph, along with kickboxer Remy Bonjasky, the face for the men's line of the brand.

King Adora

Rounding up the band's line-up was Beat Union and Farse bassist Ade Preston on guitar, bassist Glen Jones and drummer Ash Sheehan.

Kringkastingsselskapet

Mowinckel's Second Cabinet's successor in 1931, Kolstad's Cabinet, supported Hasund's line and proposed in 1932 that the government take responsibility for content.

Lil Scrappy

G's Up/S-Line has embarked in a joint venture with Bonzi Records, a label owned by platinum producer J. Wells & will be distributed by Fontana/Universal.

Little Miss Disaster

The band’s line-up shifted again, with Stu West making his recording debut on bass guitar for the group, having taken over on live dates from Patricia Morrison, who had begun to concentrate on her daughter Emily and managing the band.

Louanne Katraine

Circumstances lead to Starbuck and Kat flying as a pair on a Combat air patrol during which they encounter the ace Cylon Raider nicknamed Scar. Starbuck is the first to spot Scar, and comes close to trying to kill him in a suicidal head-on pass; at the last moment, she breaks away and lures Scar into Kat's line of fire.

Maestro guitars

Many different variables of tone woods are used in Maestro’s line of ukuleles, including Flame maple, acacia koa, Red Cedar, Cocobolo, Java Rosewood and Granadillo.

Marcel Ospel

In 2001, he was criticized for evading requests to extend Swissair's line of credit, leading some people to believe that the dramatic grounding of Swissair planes on October 2 was Ospel's responsibility.

Marsh Farm Junction

Marsh Farm Junction was a railway junction in Shropshire where the GWR's line from Buildwas via Much Wenlock joined the LNWR/GWR joint line between Shrewsbury and Hereford.

Martin Day

Co-written with Steve Bowkett (under the pseudonym Len Beech), this was one of the first books in Virgin's line of Bernice Summerfield novels.

Miles Millar

Millar and Gough are currently writing and executive producing Existence 2.0 for Paramount, as well the screenplay for Monster High, based on Mattel's line of books, webisodes, animation, and toys which is being produced by Hairspray team Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.

Nathan Guy

Guy's great-grandfather was chairman of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company when the last spike was driven on the company's line at Otaihanga, an event re-created on 19 February 2011 when Guy drove the last spike at the new Waikanae Railway Station opening ceremony.

National Aircraft Factory No. 2

NAF No.2 was created at Crossley Road, Heaton Chapel, next to the London & North Western Railway company's line between Manchester (London Road) station and Stockport (Edgeley) station.

Neuromance

Also concerning the band's line-up, Love confirmed that Brian Wolfram did not leave the band, but that they chose Alex Vega of Klimt 1918 to replace him.

Nottingham and District Tramways Company Limited

Yesterday (Thursday) morning Major-General Hutchinson of the Board of Trade, made an official inspection of the second section of the Nottingham Tramway Company's line, which extends from the Market-place as far as Carrington and the end of Forest-Road, and which is now fully completed.

Oh! You Pretty Things

Noone replaced Bowie's line "The Earth is a bitch" with "The Earth is a beast", in a performance that NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray opined to be "one of rock and roll's most outstanding examples of a singer failing to achieve any degree of empathy whatsoever with the mood and content of a lyric".

OpenPages

The OpenPages name continues to be applied to IBM's line of Governance, Risk, and Compliance products.

Patrick Walden

The band's line-up underwent several changes before stabilizing during the late summer of 2004 with Doherty on vocals, Patrick Walden on guitar, Gemma Clarke on drums and Drew McConnell on bass.

Peelwood Colliery

After 1888 an exchange siding was constructed next to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's line from Manchester to Wigan, providing access for the company's coal traffic.

Planeta U

Debuting first in the 1990s then returning to Univision's line up on April 5, 2008, Planeta U features programming that comply with federal E/I content rules as mandated by the Federal Communications Commission.

Preservation efforts of the Fredericksburg battlefield

Over this ground Federal troops under Maj. Gen. George Meade and Brig. Gen. John Gibbon launched their assault against Lt. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's Confederates holding the southern portion of the Army of Northern Virginia's line at Fredericksburg.

President's Choice

Dave Nichol, president of Loblaws Supermarkets, was constantly on the lookout for new products to add to the company’s line-up of No Name generics and had even begun offering gourmet items in the familiar, unbranded yellow packaging.

Sacramento Railyards

The First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, when Central Pacific's line joined Union Pacific's at Promontory Summit.

Shit on You

The song features references to John Candy, JonBenét Ramsey, where one of the verses said "Got JonBenet Ramsey in my '98 Camry", Richard Pryor, and Steve Stout, while Eminem's line referring to the band as "five more zany-actin' maniacs in action" harks back to his original underground album Infinite.

Supervisory program

Historically, this term was essentially associated with IBM's line of mainframe operating systems starting with OS/360.

Temporary Autonomous Zone

Bey's line "art as crime; crime as art" from "Poetic Terrorism" was sampled by Negativland in their song "Downloading" from their album No Business.

This Is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic

The group's line-up had changed by this point, with guitarists Dave Brock and Huw Lloyd-Langton, and saxophonist Nik Turner remaining, and Harvey Bainbridge switching from bass to keyboards.

To the Devil a Daughter

Christopher Lee's line "It is not heresy... and I will not recant!" was sampled by heavy metal band White Zombie for the song "Super-Charger Heaven".

Transport in Andorra

Two stations in France are connected by bus to Andorra la VellaL'Hospitalet-près-l'Andorre (served by the SNCF) and Latour-de-Carol, served by both SNCF's line to Toulouse and Spain's (RENFE's) line to Barcelona.

Vlad VI Înecatul

In October, after a further unsuccessful rebellion of the Oltenian nobility led by Craioveşti pretender to the throne Drăghici Gogoaşă, who was subsequently executed in Constantinople, Vlad ended Craioveşti's line of succession to the Banat of Craiova.

Walter Crane

Flora's Feast, A Masque of Flowers had lithographic reproductions of Crane's line drawings washed in with watercolour; he also decorated in colour The Wonder Book of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Deland's Old Garden.

WCJC

The station's line-up includes Big John (John Morgan) in the mornings (5-10AM), Sammy Edmonds(Previously Nights/Afternoons on WXXC from 10AM to 2PM, Phil (Also nights on WXXC) in the evenings (2-7PM) and CMT Live With Cody Allen from 7PM to Midnight.

Wends of Texas

After negotiating and waiting for news to come back, their would-be ship line had found and transported them to their requested ship among the White Star Line's line of packet ships, the Ben Nevis in Liverpool.

Willard, Ohio

The original name of Willard was Chicago, named for the junction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's line to Sandusky (the Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark Railroad) and the branch west to Chicago (the Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago Railroad).