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  • Thumbnail for To the Lighthouse
    To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910...
    17 KB (2,199 words) - 07:40, 29 July 2024
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    Þrídrangaviti Lighthouse (transliterated as Thridrangaviti) is an active lighthouse 7.2 kilometres (4.5 miles) off the southwest coast of Iceland, in the...
    8 KB (817 words) - 20:11, 10 July 2024
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    A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon...
    44 KB (5,013 words) - 00:07, 5 July 2024
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    Headlight, forward beam; the lamp is mounted in a vehicle, or on the forehead of a person, e.g. built into a helmet Lighthouse, beam sweeping around horizontally...
    4 KB (401 words) - 21:06, 9 September 2022
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    20th century by the government of India. The old lighthouse had first beamed light on 1 September 1836. The new lighthouse started functioning in 1979....
    4 KB (337 words) - 05:15, 10 April 2024
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    "Beam us up, star-trekkers". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. "Lighthouse Family - High (Official Video)". YouTube. Retrieved 25 June 2022. "The Lighthouse Family...
    7 KB (770 words) - 10:31, 25 April 2024
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    Fresnel lens (category Lighthouse fixtures)
    invention that saved a million ships". The first person to focus a lighthouse beam using a lens was apparently the London glass-cutter Thomas Rogers, who...
    56 KB (6,492 words) - 03:00, 27 July 2024
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    The History of Lighthouses refers to the development of the use of towers, buildings, or other types of structure, as an aid to navigation for maritime...
    33 KB (4,113 words) - 08:52, 24 February 2024
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    approximately US$70 million. The monument's lighthouse-style features projecting beams of light, forming a cross shape, which are so powerful that they...
    8 KB (784 words) - 22:24, 17 December 2023
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    oldest working lighthouse in East Anglia. The building was constructed in 1790 as one of a pair of lights ("High Lighthouse" and "Low Lighthouse") and worked...
    11 KB (1,101 words) - 08:02, 3 December 2023
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    The lighthouse paradox is a thought experiment in which the speed of light is apparently exceeded. The rotating beam of light from a lighthouse is imagined...
    10 KB (1,405 words) - 01:21, 29 January 2023
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    2015. Pelly, Frank. "William Douglass – Designer of Fastnet Lighthouse". Beam 33. Commissioners of Irish Lights. Archived from the original on 13 August...
    3 KB (155 words) - 13:56, 30 June 2024
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    Prong's Lighthouse is a lighthouse situated at the southernmost point of Bombay (now Mumbai), India in the Colaba (Navy Nagar) area. It was built in 1875...
    4 KB (244 words) - 16:13, 9 November 2023
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    searchlight as bright as the beam of a lighthouse. Li Garden, in Beiyi Xiang, was constructed in 1936 by Mr. Xie Weili, a Chinese emigrant to the United...
    22 KB (1,814 words) - 18:12, 6 August 2024
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    that the rotating beam of a lighthouse means that an observer sees the lighthouse blink, and can be observed as a highly regular series of pulses. General...
    72 KB (9,133 words) - 07:03, 22 June 2024
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    new lighthouse was commissioned into service on 25 July 1976. On 31 May 2003, the 'C' type sealed beam lamps were replaced by 'D' type sealed beam lamps...
    5 KB (559 words) - 18:18, 2 March 2024
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    The Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, Scotland, is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse. It was built between 1807 and 1810...
    19 KB (2,335 words) - 15:51, 24 July 2024
  • Beamer the Old Lighthouse is worried because previous storms have battered the breakwater so much that the last storm broke a hole in it. He calls a meeting...
    7 KB (841 words) - 12:55, 2 July 2024
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    display in their National Lighthouse Museum in Penzance). Its place in the tower was taken by a four-tier revolving sealed beam lamp array, manufactured...
    9 KB (785 words) - 20:56, 21 December 2023
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    Flamborough Head Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located at Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire. England. Flamborough Head Lighthouse acts as a waypoint...
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