a whistle post or whistle board, is a sign marking a location where a train driver is required to sound the horn or whistle. In Australia, whistle posts...
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Whistleblowing (redirect from Whistle-blower)
Whistleblowing (also whistle-blowing or whistle blowing) is the activity of a person, often an employee, revealing information about activity within a...
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A train whistle or air whistle (originally referred to as a train trumpet or air trumpet) is an audible signaling device on a steam or gas locomotive,...
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The tin whistle, also known as the penny whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is a type of fipple flute, putting it in the same class...
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In politics, a dog whistle is the use of coded or suggestive language in political messaging to garner support from a particular group without provoking...
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purposes. Whistle posts are labeled with the letter "P" (for Pfeifen – "whistle"). Common signals are: Train horns are sounded where a whistle post (marked...
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flag of Texas. The new colors are: caboose red, steel rail blue and whistle post white. The Railroaders will have three uniforms for this upcoming 2021...
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Whistling, without the use of an artificial whistle, is achieved by creating a small opening with one's lips, usually after applying moisture (licking...
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Avnet and based on Fannie Flagg's 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Written by Flagg and Carol Sobieski, and starring Kathy Bates...
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Silbo Gomero (redirect from Gomeran Whistle)
(Spanish: silbo gomero [ˈsilβo ɣoˈmeɾo], "Gomeran whistle"), also known as el silbo ("the whistle"), is a whistled register of Spanish that is used by inhabitants...
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler RBA (/ˈwɪslər/; July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during...
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The British Post Office scandal, also called the Horizon IT scandal, involved the Post Office pursuing thousands of innocent subpostmasters for apparent...
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Many films have featured mid- and post-credits scenes. Such scenes often include comedic gags, plot revelations, outtakes, and/or hints about sequels....
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Basketball positions (redirect from Post (basketball))
could also be a great passer, particularly from the high or low post areas via post-split action. Instead of a physical power forward, the stretch four...
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on a wooden post and a metallic marker post that was once located 1 mile (1.6 km) from a station. A metallic white railroad whistle post with black markings...
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additionally included a cover version of Nothing but Thieves' "Graveyard Whistling", and featured digital collections and live recordings of all 36 tracks...
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of a whistle stem to secure the whistle bell in place, and usually surmounted by an acorn-shaped top called the whistle ornament. Whistle post An advance...
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name Whistler's Mother or Portrait of Artist's Mother, is a painting in oils on canvas created by the American-born painter James McNeill Whistler in 1871...
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Whistler (Lillooet: Cwitima, [xʷetemɛ]; Squamish: Sḵwiḵw, [sqʷɛqʷ]) is a resort municipality in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia,...
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The International Whistlers Convention was an international competition for whistlers that originated from a folk festival in Louisburg, North Carolina...
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None of these things is true. — Zoe Williams, The Guardian Absurdism Dog whistle (politics) Gaslighting Guerrilla ontology Metamodernism Poe's Law Independent...
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A Whistle in the Dark is a play by Tom Murphy that premiered on September 11, 1961 at the Joan Littlewood's Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, having...
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2018. Mary Trainer; Brian Antonson; Rick Antonson (23 October 2015). Whistle Posts West: Railway Tales from British Columbia, Alberta, and Yukon. Heritage...
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Hoedemaker left Pig 'n Whistle in 1949 and started a chain of Hody's restaurants aimed at the young families moving into the Post WWII suburbs. The Hollywood...
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Michigan with a restored GTW wood caboose. The whistle post sign style of GTW on a double whistle post at Battle Creek, Michigan A 1976 map of the proposed...
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Post-truth politics, also described as post-factual politics or post-reality politics, amidst varying academic and dictionary definitions of the term,...
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Transcendental whistling (Chinese: 長嘯; pinyin: chángxiào) was an ancient Daoist technique of long-drawn, resounding whistling that functioned as a qigong...
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The whistled language of Aas (in French: langage sifflé d'Aas, occitan sifflé d'Aas; in Occitan: siular d'Aas) is a whistled language used in the town...
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The Malabar whistling thrush (Myophonus horsfieldii) is a whistling thrush in the family Muscicapidae. The bird has been called whistling schoolboy for...
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convinces Belova to stand down and spare his life after whistling her and Romanoff's whistle, leading her to realize how close he was to Romanoff. Belova...
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