On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.

There a certain farmhouse was a station for the Sons of Liberty.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

In the grand court of the Palace, notable for its tiers of Moorish galleries that looked down on the maelstrom of vehicles below, Vernon's station was at the entrance.

In the railway station at Berlin, a uniformed attendant was chanting, ' Foreigners this way!!

This was extended the following year to include the railroad station agent's office and Thayer's Hotel at Factory Point.

The radar station with the best location was still not serviceable.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

It was the station wagon that had passed his cab on the road, the station wagon that had been parked at the Burch farm.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

Slowly he pulled out the hand throttle until the boat was moving at little more than a crawl, and watched Elaine rapidly spin from one station to another, tune in the null, then draw in a line on the chart.

I asked an old guy running a fishing station if the boat was Moore's.

At the feeding station, the raffish group of cowbirds again bobbed and gobbled over the ground, but now, gorgeous among them, was a beautiful red cardinal, radiant in its feathered vestments.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.

Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof ( Central Station ), was constructed in 1841 at the Cologne-Aachen railway line and replaced in 1905, moving it significantly closer to the city centre.

W7ASU is an amateur radio station that was first organized in 1935.

" The next stop, station six, was a blocky crater, where the astronauts believed they could sample the Cayley Formation as evidenced by the firmer soil found there.

At station nine, an area known as the " Vacant Lot ", which was believed to be free of ejecta from South Ray, Young and Duke spent about forty minutes gathering samples.

Later, the station at Perano Head on the east coast of the island was used to hunt humpback whales from 1911 to 1964 ( see Whaling in New Zealand ).

* 102. 1 Bay Radio, a radio station in South Wales, originally launched as Swansea Bay Radio

Here is an everyday experience of the basic nature of the Descartes experiment: Consider sitting in your train and noticing a train originally at rest beside you in the railway station pulling away.

As in other theatrical works of the time and place, the characters in Goldoni's Italian comedies spoke originally either the literary Tuscan variety ( which became modern Italian ) or the Venetian dialect, depending on their station in life.

Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned ; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public body established in 1990, coming into operation in 1993.

The Sydney-Parramatta Line ran from Sydney terminus, just south from today's Central railway station to the Granville area which was originally known as ' Parramatta Junction '.

In early May 2007, bassist Peter Hook was interviewed by British radio station XFM – originally to talk about his contribution to the debut album of former Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell's new band Satellite Party saying that "[...] me and Bernard aren't working together.

After the Bajorans have liberated themselves from the long and brutal Cardassian Occupation, the United Federation of Planets is invited by the Bajoran Provisional Government to administer joint control of the station, which ( originally ) orbits Bajor.

During the occupation, Gul Dukat had originally enlisted Odo to investigate the murder of one of the Bajoran station workers.

The formal economy of South Africa has its beginnings in the arrival of Dutch settlers in 1652, originally sent by the Dutch East India Company to establish a provisioning station for passing ships.

* 1994 – Aldwych tube station ( originally Strand Station ) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.

Talk Radio in English was originally served by Coastline Radio, the first truly English language station in Nerja, Costa del Sol.

It was the most dishonourable death imaginable, originally reserved for slaves, hence still called " supplicium servile " by Seneca, later extended to provincial freedmen of obscure station (' humiles ').

The Shuttle was originally conceived of and presented to the public in 1972 as a ' Space Truck ' which would, among other things, be used to build a United States space station in low earth orbit in the early-1990s and then be replaced by a new vehicle.

When the concept of the U. S. space station evolved into that of the International Space Station, which suffered from long delays and design changes before it could be completed, the service life of the Space Shuttle was extended several times until 2011 when it was finally retired — serving at least 15 years longer than it was originally designed to do.

The station building at Holt was originally built at Stalham in 1883 and was moved, brick by brick in 2002, to be re-erected in its current location.

The museum building was originally a railway station, Gare d ' Orsay, constructed for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans and finished in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle to the design of three architects: Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux.

The station was originally owned and operated by famous broadcasting pioneer ( and former Detroit Tigers owner ) John Fetzer, as " WKZO-TV ".

" Some came from their sketch series on a local radio station in Chicago and had to be lengthened from the " two-minute bits " that they were originally, while several others were stage sketches performed in a comedy club in Santa Monica.

The radio station was founded as WLPI-AM in 1966 and originally housed in a rented office on Railroad Avenue in downtown Ruston.

The Waterloo & City originally had its own electric power station, and coal was delivered from Waterloo main line station using a second, smaller lift ( known as the Abbotts Lift ), which explains the continued presence of a wagon turntable in Waterloo depot.

In Toronto, CFRB ( originally a CNR Radio affiliate ) continued to simulcast Maple Leaf games for many years alongside CBC Radio's Toronto station CBL.

Lewes railway station was originally the junction for six routes.

A short length of Battle Bridge Road survives, but Cheney Road was largely removed to accommodate a realignment of Pancras Road that was originally to run to the east of the German Gymnasium, but now runs between St Pancras railway station and the German Gymnasium.

Local radio was provided by Heart North Devon, the station, originally called Lantern FM and based in Bideford in a building named " the Lighthouse ", later moved to an industrial estate in nearby Barnstaple.