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  2. Bullet Train (film) - Wikipedia

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    Bullet Train is a 2022 American action comedy film directed by David Leitch.It is based on the 2010 novel Maria Beetle (titled Bullet Train in the UK and US editions), written by Kōtarō Isaka and translated by Sam Malissa, the second novel in Isaka's Hitman series, of which the first novel was previously adapted as the 2015 Japanese film Grasshopper.

  3. Billet - Wikipedia

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    Overnight transport by train was very common for soldiers and on the Billet, the number indicating the location of the quarters would be specified. Later, during times of over-surging troops, more troops would be assigned to a train than its regular housing capacity. Thus, only those with a Billet would be assigned to a room or quarter.

  4. Bullet Train (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Bullet Train received "Rave" reviews according to the book review aggregator Book Marks based on seven independent reviews. [6] It received a starred review from Publishers Weekly [7] as well as Booklist, where Christine Tran described it as "a twisty, darkly hilarious game of musical chairs that draws out the train's hidden army of assassins and a strong dose of Machiavellian justice."

  5. The Bullet Train - Wikipedia

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    The Bullet Train (Japanese: 新幹線大爆破, Hepburn: Shinkansen Daibakuha, lit. ' The Shinkansen's Big Explosion ') is a 1975 Japanese action thriller film [4] directed by Junya Sato and starring Ken Takakura, Sonny Chiba, and Ken Utsui.

  6. Bullet train - Wikipedia

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    Caribou (train), a passenger train formerly used in Newfoundland and colloquially referred to as The Newfie Bullet; Bullet, a former passenger train of the Central Railroad of New Jersey; Bullet (interurban), a high-speed U.S. interurban rail car inaugurated in 1931; Bathurst Bullet, a passenger train connecting Sydney and Bathurst, Australia

  7. Hideo Shima - Wikipedia

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    Hideo Shima (島 秀雄, Shima Hideo, 20 May 1901 – 18 March 1998) was a Japanese engineer and the driving force behind the building of the first bullet train . [1] [2] Shima was born in Osaka in 1901, and educated at the Tokyo Imperial University, where he studied Mechanical Engineering. His father was part of a group of officials that had ...

  8. Shinkansen - Wikipedia

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    This is the name for the concept of using a single train that is designed to travel on both 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge railway lines and the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge used by Shinkansen train services in Japan. The trucks/bogies of the Gauge Change Train (GCT) allow the wheels to be unlocked from the axles, narrowed ...

  9. Billet reading - Wikipedia

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    Billet reading, or the envelope trick, is a mentalist effect in which a performer pretends to use clairvoyance to read messages on folded papers or inside sealed envelopes. It is a widely performed "standard" of the mentalist craft since the middle of the 19th century.

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