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 ).

* From 1980 to 2009, a local radio station broadcasting from Peterborough was called Hereward FM, before being relaunched as Heart Peterborough.

It recently relaunched as an internet only station.

Westinghouse relaunched the station as KDKA on November 2, 1920, claiming to be " the world's first commercially licensed radio station ".

The station relaunched as BBC Radio 4 Extra on 2 April 2011 to bring the station closer to its sister station, BBC Radio 4.

The station relaunched as BBC Radio 4 Extra on Saturday 2 April 2011.

On 8 July 1988 Rival tycoon Rupert Murdoch, having failed to gain regulatory approval for his own satellite service, and failing to become part of the BSB consortium announced that his pan-European television station, Sky Channel, would be relaunched as a four channel UK-based service called Sky Television, using the Astra system and broadcast in PAL with analogue sound.

The brand name was relaunched by Channel 4 as an online radio station in November 2006.

On 9 January 2006, the station was relaunched under its original name Capital Radio, with a modified line-up of presenters and a slightly tweaked music format.

The only change made to the licence was the classification of the franchise as North and North East Scotland, as opposed to North East Scotland-a change which the station had already capitalised upon in January 1980 when Grampian Today was relaunched as North Tonight as part of a major expansion for Grampian's news operation.

In January 2012, the Halifax station relaunched their Top 40 / Dance format and began patterning their direction after its sister station in Winnipeg, CHWE, who uses the moniker " Energy 106.

After WHTA relocated to 107. 9, 97. 5 FM relaunched as urban gospel station " Praise 97. 5 " with the call sign WEGF originally until December 5, 2001 when the call sign was again changed to WPZE.

For a time starting in the fall of 2001, the station relaunched the 1 p. m. hour of the Midday News as the WBZ Business Hour, with an increased focus on business news ; this program was similar to one on Los Angeles sister station KNX ( WBZ has since returned to regular news in the 1 p. m. hour ).

On 30 January 2006, the station relaunched its logo to coincide with the Nine Network's fiftieth year of broadcasting.

The station subsequently relaunched with a vastly more mainstream format, and a new advert featuring a friendly cartoon radio saying " Don't be afraid!

In 2001, DCL transferred 3AK from 1503 kHz to 1116 kHz and relaunched 3AK once again as a talk back station in direct competition to top rating stations 3AW and 774 ABC Melbourne.

Initially called BBC Radio Sussex and Surrey, the station relaunched with the name BBC Southern Counties Radio on 1 August 1994.

However only three years into the newly relaunched station the station was given an additional three years to prove itself to its audience by senior BBC management or close for good: this threat was also applied to its other metropolitan BBC Local Radio stations BBC WM in Birmingham and Manchester's BBC GMR.

Facing even more public criticism over GLR's position in the London radio market and its very low listening reach, the station was relaunched on 25 March 2000 as BBC London Live 94. 9 in a blaze of publicity.

The station began as a substation of Kanda Police Station in April 1905.

On 24 April 1826 over 1, 000 men and women, many armed, gathered at Whinney Hill in Clayton-le-Moors to listen to a speaker from where they marched on Sykes ’ s Mill at Higher Grange Lane, near the site of the modern police station and Magistrate ’ s Courts, and smashed over 60 looms.

An automatic weather installation was completed on April 7, 1980, with data collected by this station being transmitted directly by satellite to Brittany.

On the following day, 29 April, Mussolini's and Petacci's bodies were taken to the Piazzale Loreto in Milan and hung upside down in front of a petrol station.

The Federal Government assumed control of immigration on April 18, 1890 and Congress appropriated $ 75, 000 to construct America's first Federal immigration station on Ellis Island.

At the end of April 2005, they celebrated the decommissioning of the Obrigheim nuclear power station.

Glasnevin railway station opened on 1 April 1901 and closed on 1 December 1910.

In April, he brought Goebbels to Munich, sending his own car to meet him at the railway station, and gave him a long private audience.

* Libya TV-aka Libya al-Ahrar ; Qatar-based satellite station, launched in April 2011.

On April 4, 2006, Abdul filed a report at a Hollywood police station claiming she had been a victim of battery at a private party at about 1 a. m. April 2, according to L. A. P. D.

In 1939 the S-Bahn followed, its North-South Link between Unter den Linden and Yorckstraße opening in stages during the year, the Potsdamer Platz S-Bahn station itself opening on 15 April.

* April 21 – Bahá ' u ' lláh declares His station as " He whom God shall make manifest ".

On April 16, 2009 at 6: 00AM CDT, WYCC-TV transmitting off the John Hancock switched to all-digital broadcasting, becoming Chicago's first television station to stop broadcasting in an analog signal.

In April 2010, after securing a $ 100, 000 grant, Pierce College launched a 24-hour student-run online radio station, KPCR, airing a mix of music, sports, drama, and locally-produced news and features.

The first satellite of the Molniya series was launched on April 23, 1965 and was used for experimental transmission of TV signal from a Moscow uplink station to downlink stations located in Siberia and the Russian Far East, in Norilsk, Khabarovsk, Magadan and Vladivostok.

The first space station was Salyut 1, which was launched by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971.

On 24 April 2008 television station Sky1 announced that it had commissioned two 60-minute scripts for a potential series, working alongside B7 Productions.

Barghouti survived but was arrested by the Israeli Army in Ramallah, on April 15, 2002 and transferred to the ' Russian Compound ' police station in Jerusalem.

The 1992 Tube Stock was introduced gradually from April 1993 to 17 February 1995, and was the first in London to have automated announcements for connections and station stops.

Interior of the main train station ( of several ) in Bielsko-Biała, 28 April 2006

In April 2009 the station was rebranded as part of the Heart Network losing the long-standing Lantern FM name.

The stone railway station in the film was built in 1904 for the Northwestern Pacific Railroad and is one of the few commercial buildings in central Santa Rosa to survive the earthquake of April 18, 1906.

The first French station, Port Martin, was completed April 9 1950, but destroyed by fire the night of January 22 to 23 1952.

With over 91 million passenger entries and exits between April 2010 and March 2011, Waterloo is easily Britain's busiest railway station in terms of passenger throughput.