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A Pillow of Winds

"A Pillow of Winds" is the second track from Pink Floyd's 1971 album Meddle.

Battle of Fort Pillow

In 1997, an American motion picture, titled Last Stand at Saber River (based on the Elmore Leonard novel), features a character (played by Tom Selleck) who was a Confederate soldier at the Fort Pillow Massacre.

Depend on Me

Comedian Doug Chappel has a cameo appearance as Kaylie's father at the end of the music video to find the girls bedroom full of feathers from the pillow fights.

Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 4

#Interview With Elvis by Ray and Norma Pillow, recorded in Tampa, Florida, 1956

Gene Wojciechowski

These works include The Bus: My Life In and Out of a Helmet (Doubleday 2007) with Jerome Bettis; I Love Being the Enemy: A Season on the Court with the NBA’s Best Shooter and Sharpest Tongue (Simon & Schuster 1995) with Reggie Miller; Nothing but Net: Just Give Me the Ball and Get Out of the Way (Hyperion Books 1995) with Bill Walton; and My Life on a Napkin: Pillow Mints, Playground Dreams and Coaching the Runnin’ Utes (Hyperion 1999) with Rick Majerus.

Gobowen

The name Gobowen is believed to originate from Gob (a pillow) and Owen (Owain Glyndŵr) who was believed to have rested his weary head there.

Golden Stool

A throne is carried to the king on a pillow, as only the Asantehene himself is allowed to handle it.

John Bluett

Sir John is dressed in full armour of Almain rivets and his head rests on a pillow with lace border in which is worked the Bluett crest of a squirrel eating a nut.

Johnny Got His Gun

Joe successfully communicates these desires with military officials by banging his head on his pillow in Morse code.

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company

A special anniversary tour including Great Britain and (in the US) the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

Little Red Riding Rabbit

The wolf (voiced by Billy Bletcher) growls for the others to "COME ON! COME ON! take a powder – this is MY racket!" and the other wolves leave muttering to themselves, and a small wolf leaves from under the pillow.

Madame Fanny La Fan

Lt. Gruber once found a book under her pillow with the title Wheelchair Jujutsu which contained, among other things, 12 ways to disable a man with a crutch.

Manuel Cuevas

Cuevas created Johnny Cash's black suits, the roses and skeletons insignia of the Grateful Dead, crafted Elvis' signature suits, and an inflated lips pillow for Mick Jagger that designer John Pasche modified into the logo for The Rolling Stones.

Medb

Medb's "pillow talk" argument with her consort contains suggestions of matrilineality, as does Ailill's taking his name from his mother Máta Muirisc.

Michael J. Lindell

Lindell sold his first pillow in November 2005 at a kiosk in the Eden Prairie Center mall in Minnesota.

New York Poets Theatre

Productions included Di Prima's The Discontent of the Russian Prince, written for herself and Fred Herko, and The Pillow by Michael McClure.

Pacific Pillows

Founded in Newport, RI in 2004 by Craig & Abby Clark while Craig was serving on active duty in the United States Marine Corps as an attorney, Pacific Pillows is an e-commerce company that sells hospitality bedding, linens and pillows to consumers who would otherwise have to purchase these items in larger wholesale quantities.

Parks' Fly Shop

One of the most enduring contributions of Parks' Fly Shop is the Parks' Salmon Fly, an improved version of the old Sofa Pillow used to imitate the giant stoneflies or Salmon Flies on the Yellowstone River and its tributaries.

Phanat Nikhom District

In Tambon Mon Nang of this district there is a shrine to the Twelve Sisters with the rock they used as pillow when they wandered in the wilderness, as well as a Carissa carandas tree related to the legend.

Pillow fight

At the conclusion of the spring semester at the University of Rochester an orchestrated pillow fight is held on the main Eastman quad with one team attacking and another defending Rush Rhees Library.

The Johannesburg-based University of the Witswatersrand's Silly Buggers Society has held an annual Pillow Fight at the East Campus' Library Lawns since 2007.

Pillow fight flash mob

These events occur around the world, some taking the name Pillow Fight Club, a reference to Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk in which anyone could join and fight as long as they fought by the rules.

Pillow Head Hour

The Pillow Head Hour was a one-hour block of E/I-compliant programming on the now-defunct Kids WB, featuring two half-hour series and framed by interstitial segments hosted by Pillow Head reporter Gisselle.

Pillow talk

Pillow talk is conventionally seen as an opportunity for spies to obtain secret information, as Christine Keeler is said to have done in the Profumo Affair.

Pillows and Blankets

Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) convinces Jeff (Joel McHale) to organize a meeting to get Troy and Abed back together and build a blanket-pillow fort worthy of a Guinness world record.

Stone Pillow

Stone Pillow was a 1985 television movie, directed by George Schaefer, in which Lucille Ball, in an attempt to make a dramatic "breakout" from her years in comedy, portrayed an older homeless woman with few resources and even fewer options.

Tey

The eldest two seem to be throwing rewards to Aye and Tey, while Ankhesenpaaten stands on the pillow before Nefertiti and is caressing her chin.

The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book is also the name of a series of radio thrillers written by Robert Forrest and broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour Drama.

The Twelve Sisters

In Tambon Mon Nang, Phanat Nikhom District, Chonburi Province, there is a shrine to the Twelve Sisters with the rock they used as pillow when they wandered in the wilderness and a Carissa carandas tree.

Théâtre des Nouveautés

2009: Un oreiller … ou trois? ("One pillow … or three?") by Ray Cooney and Gene Stone, originally Why not stay for breakfast? adapted and translated by Stewart Vaughan and Jean-Claude Islert, starring Delphine Depardieu and Paul Belmondo

Tori Kropp

The Joy of Pregnancy drew upon Kropp's philosophy at Pillow Talk to present a book that was medically sound, yet not alarmist.

Tulelake, California

A goose and duck processing business and pillow factory in Tulelake was featured on an episode of Discovery Channel's series Dirty Jobs.


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