* has new illustrations by Alan Lee, who draws Garm ( talking dog ) as a Mastiff instead of a Greyhound ( as Pauline Baynes had ).

Its name is thought to come from the ancient Arabian town of Suluk, Libya, although in the modern era it has also been called the Gazelle Hound or Persian Greyhound.

The English Greyhound has tended to outshine the Galgo.

The National Greyhound Association founded in 1906 strictly regulates greyhound ownership in the U. S, and has established comprehensive animal welfare guidelines based on veterinary recommendations.

The grandstand has over 400 monitors to pick-up the 50 plus Simulcast Live Racing signals from the top Greyhound and Horse tracks from all around the United States.

Greyhound Bus Lines, offering passenger and cargo service throughout the United States, has a downtown terminal on Florida Boulevard.

For many years Wimbledon Stadium has been host to Greyhound racing as well as Stock car racing and Speedway.

The nearest point for Greyhound passenger service is Opelika, which has three buses per day to Atlanta.

Greyhound Lines also has a bus station.

* The Greyhound Lines has a bus stop in Iola.

The Greyhound Lines has a bus stop in Chanute.

Greyhound Bus Lines no longer serves Erskine, but Jefferson Lines has taken over the Fargo-Minneapolis route previously served by Greyhound.

Porter Stage Lines provides bus service from Coos Bay, Oregon with several stops, including Eugene, which has connections with Amtrak rail services and the Greyhound bus network.

Two routes of the Utah Transit Authority's bus system also provide access to Brigham City from Ogden, and it also has a Greyhound bus stop.

It also has a Greyhound bus stop along a line that runs north-south along I-15.

In addition, Chatham-Kent also has intercity bus services, with Greyhound Canada services to and from Windsor, London and Toronto, and through Detroit, Michigan to Chicago, Illinois.

* Tralee Greyhound Racing has a stadium on Brewery Road.

Greyhound Canada has a bus depot in south Coquitlam for both passenger and package service.

Although considering himself to have an expansive and learned worldview, Ignatius has an aversion to ever leaving the town of his birth, and frequently bores friends and strangers with the story of his sole, abortive journey from New Orleans, a trip to Baton Rouge on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bus, which Ignatius recounts as a traumatic ordeal of extreme horror.

It is not a major tourist centre but has many places to stay the most notable being The Greyhound, ( former local court house where hangings took place ) which is situated at the foot of the village on the banks of the River Misbourne.

Southern Cross Station also has a coach terminal under the shopping complex, from which operates the Skybus Super Shuttle service to Melbourne Airport and Sunbus Shuttle service to Avalon Airport ; Greyhound Australia, Firefly Express Coaches, Premier Motor Service interstate coach services ; and V / Line coach services to Mildura, Yarram, Mansfield and other areas not served by rail.

The village has two pubs, the Greyhound and the Plough, and one shop comprising a post office and general store.

Many adoption programs have been setup throughout Australia known as Greyhound Adoption Program or Greyhounds As Pets, GAP.

After the Battle of Chalgrove Field in 1643, Colonel John Hampden, who had been educated at the grammar school, died of his wounds at the house of Ezekiel Browne, later to become the Greyhound Inn.

The Wangaratta Greyhound Racing Club which held regular meetings at the same venue, has been discontinued.

Jefferson Lines has taken over operation of many former Greyhound routes and has been able to improve ridership significantly on some of them.

* US 41 is referenced in the The Allman Brothers Band song " Ramblin ' Man ", the singer claiming to have been born " in the back seat of a Greyhound Bus " traveling this highway.

Sixteen different ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Greyhound, after the greyhound, a breed of dog notable for its speed.

By 1986, the Greyhound Bus Line had been spun off from the parent company to new owners, which resulted in Greyhound Lines becoming solely a bus transportation company.

Boeven is good friends with producer Jesse Ranney and has been cast in his upcoming film Greyhound.

In a private prosecution under the Act brought by the International Fund for Animal Welfare ( IFAW ) who had observed two hare coursing events in villages near Malton, North Yorkshire in March 2007 organised by the Yorkshire Greyhound Field Trialling Club, the District Judge in Scarborough magistrates court clarified that the club was mistaken in believing that because the dogs they had been using were muzzled, the practice was legal.

It has been owned by Greyhound since 1998, and Voyageur now essentially operates as a Greyhound brand.

Greyhound Bus service to the station was previously available but has been discontinued.

Upon its upgrade, Springfield's Union Station — which has been mostly dormant since the early 1970s, when the riverfront-blocking Interstate 91 was constructed — will become an intermodal transportation center, housing the headquarters of Peter Pan Bus, the PVTA, and a regional headquarters for Greyhound Bus.

The breed is believed to have been created from several different breeds of dogs that had the characteristics that Dobermann was looking for, including the German Pinscher, the Beauceron, the Rottweiler, the Thuringian Sylvan Dog, the Greyhound, the Great Dane, the Weimaraner, the German Shorthaired Pointer, the Manchester Terrier and the Old German Shepherd Dog.

Prominent local music venues include the Palace, ( closing soon due to redevelopment unless the High Court says otherwise ) the Palais theatre for larger concerts, the Esplanade Hotel, the Prince of Wales Hotel for larger gigs and DJ's ( and backpackers ), The George Public Bar on Saturday afternoons, the St Kilda Bowls Club, and The Greyhound – which picked up the local crowd, local bands, local bar staff and sticky carpet when The Esplanade Hotel ( The Espy ) kicked them out after ' suburbification ' in the early noughties.

The Greyhound pub and restaurant situated at the top of the village main road re-opened in June 2009 after a two-year closure for redevelopment.

Passenger trains haven't served Carson City since 1948, Greyhound Lines stopped their bus services to the town in 2006 and Amtrak discontinued their connecting thruway bus to Sacramento in 2008.

The Union Passenger Terminal is the terminus for three of Amtrak's long-distance trains, the City of New Orleans, the Crescent and, since 2005, the Sunset Limited and also offers inter-city bus service via Greyhound Lines.

Greyhound racing in Milton Keynes was previously at Ashland ( since 1966 ): Gaming International owned that too, but sold it to English Partnerships as a brownfield site for a 350 house development.

On August 7, 2008, he played his first post-rehab electric show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY debuting: " Alaska "( electric version ; the song was debuted acoustic at Rothbury ), " Peggy ", " Gone ", " Backwards Down the Number Line " ( electric version ; the song was debuted acoustic at Rothbury ), " Valentine ", " Greyhound Rising ", and " Light ".

In 2008 the Houston Press named the Greyhound Terminal as " best place to people watch.

Bus still in the old livery, leaving the Greyhound Courier Express depot in Toronto, in June 2008

Greyhound Lines operates its intercity buses from the Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal, which was the second busiest Greyhound bus station in the United States in 2008.

On July 30, 2008, Tim McLean, a passenger on a Greyhound bus, was stabbed, beheaded and cannibalized while riding the bus near Portage La Prairie, Manitoba.