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	Bus spotting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bus spotting is a pastime in which one seeks to see all buses in a particular fleet or those produced by a particular manufacturer.
		Bus spotters are relatively unconcerned by timetables or network quality but they may be interested in new liveries, especially ad-hoc schemes to advertise particular products or events.
		Bus spotters also like to have 'fan charters' by chartering a bus of choice and get photos of it in different parts of the city or town they are in.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bus_spotting (431 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Aircraft spotting
		Aircraft spotting or Plane spotting is a hobby involving the enjoyment, observation and photography of aircraft: gliders, powered aircraft, large balloons, airships, helicopters, and microlights.
		Spotting is a practice used in climbing, especially in bouldering, where the climbers are close to the ground and ropes are not typically used.
		The term spotting or spots is sometimes given to the practice of burning rolled balls of marijuana between heated metal knives and inhaling the smoke through a spottle.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Aircraft-spotting (1466 words)

	Bus spotting: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Bus spotters seek to see all vehicles in a particular fleet, or produced by a particular manufacturer.
		Bus spotters are relatively unconcerned by timetables or network quality but they may be excited by new liveries especially ad-hoc schemes to advertise particular products or events.
		Bus spotting has never had the wide following achieved by train spotting in the UK but has become popular in Hong Kong and many bus societies have been formed there.
	www.encyclopedian.com /bu/Bus-spotting.html (277 words)

	Bus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A bus is a large automobile intended to carry numerous persons in addition to the driver and sometimes a conductor.
		Bus services were also a focal point in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s in the United States.
		This incident, boycotts of bus services, other protests, and court challenges led a U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning segregation on public buses and helped lead the U.S. Congress to the pass the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act which clarified the unconstitutionality of public racial segregation laws.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bus (1124 words)

	Bus spotting: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Train spotting is a pastime practised in countries where trains run on a constant schedule, in which enthusiasts spend time at railway depots, train stations...
		A bus is a large wheeled vehicle, intended to carry numerous persons in addition to the driver....
		Aircraft spotting is a hobby involving the enjoyment, observation and photography of aircraft: gliders, powered aircraft, large balloons, airships, helicopterhelicopters,...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bu/bus_spotting.htm (880 words)

	Recent fiction: Lake Bus
		The bus had been fifteen minutes late, an eternity at rush hour, time enough for the milling crowd at the stop to grow from one dozen to four.
		Even over the steady drone of the bus, the heavy slog of its tires through slush, her voice saws across his concentration.
		Intermittently, riders were encouraged to move to the rear of the bus, to keep their bags off the seat, to not spit or gamble, or to share comments with the people at headquarters.
	www.ess.pdx.edu /portlandreview/PRrecent_story_lakebus.htm (3405 words)

	spotting \| TutorGig.co.uk Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bus spotting is a pastime in which one seeks to see all bus buses in a particular fleet or those produced...
		A spotting scope is a portable telescope, optimized for the observation of terrestrial objects.
		Aircraft spotting or Plane spotting is a hobby involving the enjoyment, observation and photography of aircraft...
	www.tutorgig.co.uk /encyclopedia/sencyclo.jsp?keywords=spotting (418 words)

	Bus spotting: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bus (Bus: A vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport) spotters seek to see all vehicles in a particular fleet (fleet: A group of warships organized as a tactical unit), or produced by a particular manufacturer.
		As with train or aircraft spotters (aircraft spotters: aircraft spotting is a hobby involving the enjoyment, observation and photography of...
		Since bus spotting involves urban mass transit, it often goes hand in hand with metrophily (metrophily: a metrophile is a person who has as a hobby the study of metro (subway, underground)...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/bus_spotting (274 words)

	Aircraft spotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Aircraft spotting is a hobby involving the enjoyment observation and photography aircraft : gliders powered aircraft large balloons airships helicopters and microlights.
		Aircraft spotting was not until recently recognised a legitimate hobby in Greece where the military authorities remain concerned note-taking and photography on or near airfields.
		See bus spotting train spotting birding and butterfly spotting for examples of hobbies.
	www.freeglossary.com /Aircraft_spotting (909 words)

	Bus spotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bus spotting is a pastime in which one seeks to see all buses in a...
		Bus spotting is not about memorising every single bus timetable you can lay your hands on and then
		bus spotting Bus spotting is a pastime in which one seeks to see all buses in a particular fleet or
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Bus_spotting.html (2091 words)

	The Peninsula On-line: Qatar's leading English Daily
		SPOTTING a bus driver accelerating down the street with both hands off the wheel should no longer be cause for alarm under plans to introduce Britain’s first self-steering bus.
		The self-steering bus, which uses a camera mounted at the top of the windscreen to follow lines painted on the road, does not deviate more than a few millimetres from its course.
		Stagecoach, the bus and train operator, is conducting trials in Britain in the summer and plans to fit the system on 22 buses in Cambridge by the end of the year.
	www.thepeninsulaqatar.com /features/featuredetail.asp?file=januaryfeatures152006.xml (573 words)

	Grenada On the buses
		And, quite often, they do not stop at bus stops (though they are meant to.) But they do have names, and they can sort of be identified by the number plate.
		If the music in the bus is so loud that it is impossible for the driver to have heard the knock, do not despair.
		For the return journey, the Grand Anse (hotel belt) buses can be found at a bus station (unmarked, naturally), at the end of the Sendal Tunnel in St. George's, near the Esplanade, on the west coast.
	www.grenadaexplorer.com /tip/bus (881 words)

	Laundry bus (kottke.org) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		You'll be entered in the Spot the Bus Sweepstakes.
		If you'd like to take part without actually spotting the bus or even living in NYC (and have a chance at winning $5000), I took the above photo at 10:41am near 14th Street and 10th Ave in Manhattan.
		This entry is part of the kottke.org weblog, of which Job opening for a web designer is the latest entry.
	www.kottke.org /06/05/laundry-bus (215 words)

	Bus-spotting is a one-man show with a bizarre rollercoaster of 14 comic and tragic characters from a bus journey around ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bus-spotting is a one-man show with a bizarre rollercoaster of 14 comic and tragic characters from a bus journey around the world.
		Johnny's Dad abandons him on a bus as a young boy, never to be seen again.
		When he leaves school, he puts his ambition of becoming a bus driver on hold and decides to go on a round the world trip, using only buses - maybe then, he feels, people will respect him for his full notebook of bus types.
	www.busspotting.com (630 words)

	Bus - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Image:Honoluluthebus.jpg A bus is a large, motorized, wheeled vehicle intended to carry numerous persons in addition to the driver.
		Intercity bus services have become an important travel connection to smaller towns and rural areas in the United States that do not have airports or train service.
		Under a busing plan, children do not necessarily go to the nearest school geographically, but to such a school where there is an appropriate mix of racial diversity.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Bus (1128 words)

	Bus spotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bus spotters are relatively unconcerned by timetables network quality but they may be excited new liveries especially ad-hoc schemes to advertise products or events.
		Bus has never had the wide following achieved train spotting in the UK but has popular in Hong Kong and many bus societies have been there.
		The concept of this story is simple: The bus driver has left you the responsibility of watching his bus.
	www.freeglossary.com /Bus_spotting (604 words)

	Simply Adventure - The #24 London Bus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bus stops are abundant and each is marked with a sign indicating the buses that pass by it.
		Bus stops marked Request require you to signal the driver to stop, and an outstretched hand works well.
		As mentioned before, London Travelcards are valid on this bus (and any other displaying a London Transport sign) so feel free to hop on and off whenever you please.
	www.steveclifford.com /europe_brit_24p2.html (548 words)

	Bus driver fired for leaving student
		Doug Buchanan, a Laidlaw bus driver for East Middle School, delivered students to school Wednesday morning, then drove to a local restaurant where he exited the bus to have breakfast.
		Not only are bus drivers trained to check the seats after each run, but buses are equipped with an alarm system that is designed to prevent drivers from overlooking students.
		The Child Checkmate System, developed by Laidlaw, consists of an alarm that is connected to the ignition and requires bus drivers to deactivate the system by pushing a button located on the rear wall of the bus.
	www.auburnpub.com /articles/2005/02/10/news/news02.txt (508 words)

	ggower.com: Bus spotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Up until a few weeks ago, all Ottawa buses looked pretty much the same to me. Some are short buses, some are accordion buses, some are newer, some are older.
		I spotted 7 of them on the 85.
		I should post a message asking why the #2 bus is never, ever on time.
	ggower.blogspot.com /2004/01/bus-spotting.html (147 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By the end of the 20th century, almost the only steam power still in regular use in North America and Western European countries was on heritage railways specifically aimed at tourists and/or railroad enthusiasts, known as railfans or train spotters, although some narrow gauge lines in Germany which form part of the public transport...
		Their own on-line discussion board showcases their combative style, their detailed knowledge of transport issues and their dislike of groups such as West-on-Track who make a heritage or development case for rail expansion where this case tends to require virtually total subsidisation from some level of Government.
		They are highly sceptical of rail enthuasiast groups whom they assert tend to have the interest of train spotting enthusiasts, many of them from overseas, at heart rather than that of local rail users and taxpayers....
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Train-spotting.htm (682 words)

	FIFA.com
		On spotting the Italian and without the usual preventive barriers, several hundred fans push forward and close in on the azzurri great.
		Several heartbeats pass…then, there he is being bundled on the bus by a burly security guard, yet still wearing the broad grin that has endeared him to fans in Italy, England and the world over.
		Back on the bus, Zola, with not a hair out of place on top of his boyish face, waves cheerily back to a crowd that moments earlier seemed to be desperate to grab a piece of the Italian.
	www.fifa.com /en/news/feature/0,1451,105892,00.html (997 words)

	Aircraft Spotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The munition's spotting charge, equivalent to the charge of a shotgun shell...
		30, and its spotting charge _ roughly equivalent to the charge of a shotgun...
		See bus spotting, train spotting, birding and butterfly spotting for examples of similar hobbies.
	www.wikiverse.org /aircraft-spotting (1046 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Plane spotting
		Aircraft spotting is a hobby involving the enjoyment, observation and photography of aircraft: gliders, powered aircraft, large balloons, airships, helicopters, and microlights.
		Plane spotting, like its even more eccentric predecessor "train spotting," endures as a hobby among eccentric Brits and a handful of devotees from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Japan and the United States.
		While plane spotters lug around their own accounts of sightings in notebooks as thick as Bibles, God spotters carry the real thing filled with the accounts of generations of the God spotters who came before them.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Plane-spotting (1164 words)

	Bus Zone - Why Buses?
		Whilst this image can be applied to bus spotters in bus stations, it doesn't really get across the story of why people can be interested in these things.
		Bus spotting is not about memorising every single bus timetable you can lay your hands on and then acting as a mobile timetable for your friends (although this is handy)!
		After reading it I started to recognise the types of bus in the town and started to realise that there was a whole world of things to find out about buses and their operation.
	www.buszone.co.uk /Why.html (1173 words)

	Bus spotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Scottish Vintage Bus Museum, located at Lathalmond by Dunfermline, Fife, is the acknowledged focal point of historic bus restoration and operation in Scotland.
		Mr Purcell is keeping the school bus running, but says he has no intention of keeping the two coaches, which are used for charter purposes such as taking the football players to their games.
		Xarxa de bus, xarxa de metro, transport turístic, bitllets i tarifes, línies adaptades, novetats i a més te una aplicació interactiva de recorreguts óptims amb bus, metro o ambdós.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Bus_spotting (1579 words)

	The G Train
		Spotting a bus, Nolan made his way across the parking lot towards it.
		A stringy woman in a wig that looked like greasy feathers climbed off the bus and shook a long hook of a fingernail at him, "Excuse me! This the last stop!" Nolan couldn't tell if she was the driver, didn't care, turned and walked back towards the tracks with cold toes.
		He hung out at two in the morning at a bus stop with pop music hanging in his brain like dead weight, keeping him from lining up his thoughts into something useful.
	www.wileywiggins.com /gtrain.html (999 words)

	Rob's Bus Zone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bus spotting is not just about memorising timetables.
		Every double deck bus on route 17 for example, does not look the same, but they are similar in having two decks, wheels, lights and a driver.
		The Bus Station is especially highly recommended with links to thousands of bus related sites across the UK and the world.
	www.busweb.co.uk /rwill2805/Buses.html (690 words)

	Bus stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Spotting the bus driver leaving his bus and going to the airport building, he
		bus was due to leave in five minutes.
		And the series would not be complete without at least one red London bus...
	www.corsicabus.org /Bus_stories.html (205 words)

	The School Bus Yard
		Ron states this bus in an excellent condition for a 1992.
		All photos, graphics and material of The Bus Spot & School Bus Yard are used with permission of their owner and are protected by the copyright laws of the United States of America.
		The Bus Spot and School Bus Yard 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001.
	members.aol.com /SchoolBusYard (548 words)

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