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' Top and tail ' is a phrase used to describe an operation where there is a locomotive at each end of the train ; usually to make it easier to change direction at a terminal location where it is not possible to run the motive power ' around ' the train ( i. e. swap the locomotives from one end of the train to the other ); this arrangement is not used specifically to operate longer or heavier trains.
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Ambergris is key to the Ian Cameron novel The Lost Ones, from which came the 1974 Disney film, The Island at the Top of the World.
The AFL is the List of sports attendance figures # Top 10 in average attendance | most attended national competition in Australia and the only fully professional league for Australian football in the world.
The well-watered north of the continent is often called the " Top End " and the arid interior " The Red Centre ", owing to its vast amounts of red soil and sparse greenery amongst its landscape.
The Budweiser brand is promoted in motorsports, from Bernie Little's Miss Budweiser hydroplane boat to sponsoring the Budweiser King Top Fuel Dragster driven by Brandon Bernstein.
It is ranked 19th in the British Film Institute's list of Top 100 British films.
A similar type of investigation occurs in many mathematical theories, such as the study of continuous maps ( morphisms ) between topological spaces in topology ( the associated category is called Top ), and the study of smooth functions ( morphisms ) in manifold theory.
The case of the IWC 2007 Top Gun edition of the Pilot's Watch double chronograph is crafted in black ceramic.
The company's effort to regain its footing is the subject of Tom Barbash's 2003 book On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9 / 11: A Story of Loss and Renewal.
Top Up TV later replaced it ; however, this service is shrinking as the DVB-T multiplex owners are finding free-to-air broadcasting more profitable.
It is the smallest and most northerly of the Australian capital cities, and acts as the Top End's regional centre.
On a side note on the nightlife, Edinburgh is the Top UK city for male single travelers, according to a recent Excite EU study.
This effort is supported by the Top Gun Program enabling HP Enterprise Services technical personnel to dedicate 3 months of their time on joint projects with the Agility Alliance partner on a key technology problem, to create an innovative customer solution.
The Vail Film Festival in Vail, Colorado, is one of the " Top 10 destination film festivals in the world " ( MovieMaker magazine ), screens over 90 films, features mostly new filmmakers and honors Rising Stars, including Jesse Esienberg, Olivia Wilde, and many more.
*" Top o ' The Morning to Ya " is used in Michael Mann's 1995 film Heat, and the 2003 film Daredevil.
* 1944 – World War II: Top Ace Major Greg " Pappy " Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
* 2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two.
Despite his three titles, and although John Cooper considered him " the greatest ", Formula One journalist Adam Cooper wrote in 1999 that Brabham is never listed among the Top 10 of all time, noting that " Stirling Moss and Jim Clark dominated the headlines when Jack was racing, and they still do ".
Top to bottom viewing angles may still be restrictive, by design, as looking at an LCD from an extreme up or down angle is not a common usage model and these photons are wasted.
Coster-Mullen is the author of Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man, 2003 ( first printed in 1996, self-published ), considered a definitive text about Little Boy ; illustrations from which are used in the Assembly details section above.
Hybrid Theory is also in the RIAA's Top 100 Albums.
Millsaps College is featured in Loren Pope ’ s Colleges That Change Lives and is one of only 24 private colleges nationwide named a Best Buy in the 2010 edition of Fiske ’ s Top Financial Finds on the College Tuition Market.
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Top 40 music is heavily criticized by some music fans as being repetitive and of low quality, and is almost exclusively dominated by large media conglomerates such as Clear Channel Communications and CBS Corporation.
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Two California radio programming pioneers, Bill Drake and Gene Chenault, modified the Top 40 formula and gave their version the brand name " Boss Radio ", after then-KHJ promotion director Clancy Imuslind originated the phrase.
However, Goldberg first used the phrase in April 1999 with no relation to the Iraq War, as the title of a column in the National Review on the " Top Ten Reasons to Hate the French ".
In 2003, the Russian journalist Julia Jusik coined the phrase " Brides of Allah " ( Невесты Аллаха ) when she described the process by which Chechen women were recruited by Basayev and his associates ; the phrase was also used again after the Beslan attack, as the title of an installment of the Russian NTV programme Top Secret ( Совершенно секретно ).
The album contained two more Top 5 singles ; " Here We Go ( Let's Rock & Roll )" reached No. 3 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart ( and No. 20 in the UK ), and " Things That Make You Go Hmmm " ( inspired by a phrase uttered periodically by late-night talk show host, Arsenio Hall ) reached No. 4 ( and No. 4 in the UK ).
Some schools teach this order by remembering the phrase " My Baby Looks Hot Tonight " or " Money Buys Lots of Hot Toys ", where the beginning of each word stands for Middle torso strap, Bottom torso strap, Leg straps, Head strap and Top torso strap.
Morgan claims to have a number of tattoos, including: a peace sign ; a happy and sad face ; a cross bearing the names of his wife and three sons ; the name of a friend he played football with in high school who was murdered ; the words ME, MYSELF, & I on his back ; and the phrase Stove Top.
* David Letterman used the phrase " How to Shoot Friends and Influence People " as number ten in his Top 10 list of " Chapter Titles in Dick Cheney's Memoir ", referring to the Dick Cheney hunting incident.
The meaningless but catchy show slogans are SCOF ( Swirling Cesspool Of Filth ) and Slap My Top ( thought to be a variation on the music hall soundbite slap my thigh-but reserved exclusively for people with bald heads ) and listeners have marketed the show by writing the phrase in the dirt on the backs of trucks and vans.
The derivation of the name ' Toppesfield ' is assumed to be an agglomeration of the phrase ' Top of the Field ' meaning it is located on a rise.
While Martin's old catch phrase was " Top 40 ", he has since replaced it with " Snore " and " You dont care do you ".
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-short for " The Collective Consciousness Society "-which had several hit singles produced by Mickie Most, including a version of Led Zeppelin's " Whole Lotta Love ", which was used as the theme for BBC's Top Of The Pops between 1971 and 1981.
Another instrumental called " Brother " was used as the theme to the BBC Radio 1 Top 20 / 40 when Tom Browne / Simon Bates presented the programme in the 1970s.
That same year Potter used some of her income and a small inheritance from an aunt to buy Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey in Lancashire in the English Lake District.
The term Jacobs was used in a line uttered by Brick Top in the movie Snatch:
It is also used in rock, by bands and artists such as Canned Heat, The Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, Ry Cooder, Chris Rea, Bonnie Raitt, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Little Feat, Eagles, ZZ Top, Whitesnake and AC / DC.
According to al-Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda's documentary Top Secret: The Road to September 11, three weeks prior to the attacks Saeed is believed to have used the name ' Abdul Rahman ' to send a message to Ramzi bin al-Shibh ( who was posing as a girlfriend ) online, in which he wrote
This type of hardened carrier is not used for Top Secret or special category information for non-U. S. UAA.
With help from Radio 1 breakfast show host Simon Mayo, who gave the song regular airplay and also used the chorus within a jingle, it became a hit, some 12 years after the song's original appearance in Life Of Brian, reaching number 3 in the UK charts and landing Idle a set on Top of the Pops in October 1991.
From 1959 to 1960 series Loopy De Loop and The Flintstones, softly orchestrated themes, some of them almost sounding concrete music and some played only by accordion, were used in other H-B cartons between 1961 and 1963 – like Top Cat, Snagglepuss, Touché Turtle, Wally Gator and the Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound 1961 seasons and all of its segments – and eventually between 1964 and 1967, and rarely then until the eighties.
The term " code word " was used by the CIA during the 1960s as a partial designation for a Top Secret report on a highly classified and sensitive intelligence topic, and for compartmenting information.
This description can be used to describe any number of Westerns, but also other films such as Die Hard, Top Gun, and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai which are frequently cited examples of films that do not take place in the American West but have many themes and characteristics common to Westerns.
In Aerospace the more general term " system Failure Condition " is used for the " undesired state " / Top event of the fault tree.
The winners then advance to face the top two teams in the semifinals, which are held at nominally neutral sites ( a traditional feature in the French playoffs )— although in the 2011 – 12 season, the semifinals were held at Stadium de Toulouse, occasionally used as a " big-game " venue by traditional Top 14 power Stade Toulousain.
According to al-Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda's documentary Top Secret: The Road to September 11, three weeks prior to the attacks Saeed al-Ghamdi is believed to have used the name " Abdul Rahman " to message bin al-Shibh ( who was posing as a girlfriend ) online, where he messaged
Many Boards of Canada compositions are used in the BBC's motoring show, Top Gear, such as 1969 from the album Geogaddi, and Pete Standing Alone from the predecessor album Music Has the Right to Children.
The Sultan of Brunei used to keep a residence there, and Carrot Top has his Las Vegas residence in the area.
The remainder of the southern end, between Johnson's Hillock and Wigan Top Lock, is now considered as part of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and remains well used by leisure traffic.
Nilsson's next album, Harry ( 1969 ), was his first to hit the charts, and also provided a Top 40 single with " I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City " ( written as a contender for the theme to Midnight Cowboy ), used in the Sophia Loren movie La Mortadella ( 1971 ) ( US title: Lady Liberty ).
Allman Brothers songs have been used in various advertising campaigns and television programs, with the most well-known use being that of " Jessica " used in both the 1977 and 2002 formats of the BBC television series Top Gear.
" Jeff Apter maintains that the guitar Smith received for Christmas of 1972 was from his parents, and equates this item with Smith's notorious Woolworth's ' Top 20 ' guitar, later used on many of The Cure's earliest recordings.
In 2007, the Organization announced the Top 15 system would be back, which was also used in 2008 until 2010.
Among the Jelly Belly flavors used for JBz shells were raspberry, coconut, strawberry cheesecake, Juicy Pear, apricot, cappuccino, Very Cherry, Ice Blue Mint, cotton candy, Top Banana, Honey Graham Cracker, orange juice, licorice, green apple, Sizzling Cinnamon, grape, blueberry, Buttered Popcorn, Toasted Marshmallow and Tutti Fruitti.
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