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There are two kinds of lighthouses, each blinking polar messages.
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"lighthouses" and "field hospitals" for refugees in flight from high-entropy
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Located on the ocean, Washington's Cape Disappointment State Park has two lighthouses.
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The peninsula is also full of great seafood eats, lighthouses, and breweries.
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Lighthouses were designed to help ships navigate the dangers of the sea.
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Back when Britannia ruled the waves her beautiful lighthouses were wonders to behold.
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By then, all lighthouses had either been automated or, in large numbers, decommissioned.
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Eight miles south, there's Pigeon Point, one of the West Coast's tallest lighthouses.
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She'd never been to Maine and wanted to see the picturesque coastline and lighthouses.
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MEG WHITMAN: Certainly, we need a hit, and that's what we call our lighthouses.
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The final series, devoted to the lighthouses of New England, was issued in 2013.
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We see the American Revolution in patriots defending or recapturing lighthouses from the British.
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In more than a dozen US states, former lighthouses have been converted into inns.
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Bird deaths have been observed at lighthouses, for example, for more than a century.
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Up and down the Maine coast, you will find more than 60 lighthouses to explore.
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What's important is that their contemporaries could notice that they were lighthouses for their era.
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It's bundled with an external tracking faceplate, two external tracking lighthouses, and two Vive controllers.
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It's tracked with the same laser "lighthouses" as the Vive, and uses a very similar controller.
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The lighthouses are listed at GSA Auctions, a website the government uses to sell federal property.
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During the fall, as the sun sets earlier, the state's wineries and lighthouses come to life.
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Featuring the photography of John Eagle, the presentation explores the history and scenery of Irish lighthouses.
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Four of the six lighthouses are currently $15,000, one is $27,000 and the cheapest is $10,400.
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Lighthouses give us a false sense of security to cling to as we face the unknown.
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Elsewhere in the 29,2450-acre park, pristine beaches and bone-white lighthouses call to mind Maine.
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It&aposs a mix of sandy beaches, picturesque lighthouses, wildlife sanctuaries — and sprawling, million-dollar estates.
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A chance to clear our heads of moaning spirit creatures and paranoia-inducing bureaucracies and threatening lighthouses.
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So her studio imagined a series of subversive, welcoming "barriers" made of lighthouses, hammocks, and pipe organs.
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China had claimed to be serving the common good: making navigation safer by building lighthouses, for instance.
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Like distant cosmic lighthouses, pulsars are rotating neutron stars that emit a long beam of electromagnetic radiation.
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This coastal city is dotted with beautiful lighthouses, and its local restaurants serve up top-notch seafood.
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New York Harbor, the Jersey Shore and Long Island Sound are home to dozens of aging lighthouses.
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These leaning splintery beams of people, these lighthouses, this blood blue sea could only be North America, Maine.
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Why are lighthouses romantic, deserving of Dolin's thick love-letter, in a way that, say, gristmills are not?
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The US government is auctioning six out-of-commission lighthouses, with an asking price of around $153,000 each.
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Five of the lighthouses are on lakes in Michigan and one is on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
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Beijing has reclaimed land in massive dredging operations, turning sandbars into islands equipped with airfields, ports and lighthouses.
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The perfect mix of history and adventure, lighthouses have a captivating quality that appeals to travelers young and old.
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There you can savor lobster, visit the region's lighthouses and take in the rocky coastline along the Atlantic Ocean.
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Further, in standard home use, the new Lighthouses haven't offered a substantially better experience than Oculus inside-out tracking.
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This was back in the day, well before lighthouses could be automated and manned by one person or remotely.
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All the lighthouses sit on small concrete "cribs," or bases, surrounded by water and are accessible only by boat.
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Formentera is full of caves to explore, Instagram-friendly lighthouses, classically Mediterranean white stone villages, and mopeds zipping around.
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China says that its island facilities, including lighthouses and weather stations, serve valuable civilian functions for all countries. video
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This author took a vacation from writing about lighthouses (18 books) and astronomy (4 books) to concentrate on chickens.
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He currently manages United States Coast Guard Aids to Navigation and Lighthouses at the Northeast district headquarters in Boston.
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Bidding is underway for six decommissioned lighthouses built before 1930 that the federal government has put up for auction.
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Managing lighthouses is a full-time job, he said, one that involves painting, rust prevention, roof repair and more.
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Upon joining Novartis, he and his team compiled "12 lighthouses," areas where the company is focusing its digital strategy.
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Lighthouses, dramatic bluffs and windswept dunes complete the alluring picture that keeps tourists coming every spring, summer and fall.
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Definitions of a public good can vary, but the oft-used examples are lighthouses, national defenses and clean air.
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In fact, I did a bit of research and there are hardly any lighthouses that people have actually lived inside.
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If you immediately saw a montage of plaid, stiff school uniforms, organized sports, and New England lighthouses, you're not alone.
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We suggest they take a look at these proposals that imagine a structure built of pipe organs, hammocks, or lighthouses.
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Located on the Pacific Ocean, this park contains two lighthouses, eight miles of hiking trails, and an amphitheater for entertainment.
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Whether they are functioning towers casting a beam over the sea or simply historic landmarks, lighthouses are full of intrigue.
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This cruise lets you see at least 10 of the area's lighthouses from the water, the way the designers intended.
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"The most frightening thing was when the heavy fog came in," Michael said, noting the limitations of even powerful lighthouses.
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The world should pay more attention to the civilian facilities China has built like lighthouses, Hua told a daily news briefing.
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The island, with restaurants with names like the Lobster Box and mailboxes shaped like lighthouses, wound up being a fortuitous detour.
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These include lighthouses, miniature castle follies and Georgian Dublin townhouses, but only Magherintemple Lodge, in County Antrim, has the Casement connection.
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Ireland is, after all, an island — before the time of GPS, lighthouses were essential in preventing shipwrecks along the rocky coast.
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I planned too late, and both Wicklow Head and Galley Head were booked (space in lighthouses is limited, so book early).
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Although there are many museums represented, there are also lighthouses, fire stations, hospitals, post offices, and a center for vintage fairground rides.
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The GSA Auctions website did not state why the lighthouses were being sold now or immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.
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Chinese officials have repeatedly stressed the civilian nature of the Spratlys expansion, including lighthouses, search and rescue bases and environment research stations.
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Benjamin Wheeler, 6 Ben loved The Beatles, lighthouses and the No. 7 train to Sunnyside, Queens, his family said in a statement.
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A battalion of lighthouses surrounding the border, light streaming from their eerily eye-like windows and pure darkness from their all-devouring doorways.
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That means there should be more focus on building lighthouses, civilian airports, maritime search and rescue, scientific research and weather forecasting, it added.
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Tensions have ratcheted up as China has reclaimed land in massive dredging operations, turning sandbars into islands equipped with airfields, ports and lighthouses.
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The Lighthouses of Ireland (Friday) The National Lighthouse Museum celebrates St. Patrick's Day with a multimedia lecture about beacons on the Emerald Isle.
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The National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act, passed in 2000, helps the government preserve lighthouses that are no longer needed by the Coast Guard.
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After he graduated from high school, Gülen asked him to run one of his "lighthouses"—student dormitories that doubled as religious discussion centers.
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Maine is commonly called the Lighthouse State, as it still has 65 historical lighthouses spread out over its thousands of miles of coastline.
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The island also has two distinctive lighthouses to explore and plenty of hiking trails for when you find yourself feeling restless on the beach.
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That's $200 less than the HP Reverb and $400 less than a Vive Pro (and that's just for the headset sans controllers or lighthouses).
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Combat was a wash, and the multiple lighthouses a boring trope, but it pitched itself and felt like a capital s Serious video game.
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One of many lighthouses that dot the coastline of Nova Scotia, Peggy's Point sits among large boulders in the fishing village of Peggy's Cove.
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China's foreign minister said reports by "certain Western media" should focus more on China's building of lighthouses to improve shipping safety in the region.
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Chinese naval expert Li Jie told the Global Times the platforms could power lighthouses, defense facilities, airports and harbors in the South China Sea.
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Mr. Korstad's fascination with lighthouses started when he was in the sixth grade, he said, when he met a lighthouse keeper in Washington state.
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" Quibi will have 35 high-gloss narrative shows—Katzenberg's aforementioned "lighthouses"—in the first year, along with 115 "alternative" shows and daily "quick bites.
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Drop in price: 34%Median airfare: $447With windswept beaches, historic lighthouses, seaside cottages, and opulent captain's mansions, Nantucket is New England at its finest.
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Every summer, they drive to visit family in central Maine before heading to the coast near Boothbay Harbor for the "lighthouses and lobsters," Bowman said.
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When we reach La Coruña, where there are hundreds of lighthouses bordering the coast, I spot other percebeiros waiting for the sea to calm down.
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Think of the towers as lighthouses, broadcasting their existence at set time intervals and frequencies for any data-enabled device in range to pick up.
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Tensions have ratcheted up in the region as China has reclaimed land in massive dredging operations, turning sandbars into islands equipped with airfields, ports and lighthouses.
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After some modeling, scientists think they've got the answer: Pulsars, incredibly dense, rapidly-spinning cores of ancient stars that shoot beams of radiation out like lighthouses.
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The ferry ride, which took around 45 minutes, was the quintessential experience of journeying across an archipelago, the routes well marked by buoys, poles and lighthouses.
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To some, the Atlantic Coast conjures visions of New England lighthouses, sunrises in the Chesapeake Bay and tourists flocking to the white sands of Myrtle Beach.
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The golden age of lighthouse construction in the country was in the mid-19th century; between the 1183s and 1860s alone over 40 lighthouses were built.
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Along with Fastnet Rock in County Cork, Fanad Head is one of Ireland's most scenic lighthouses (and is situated in Donegal's Gaeltacht, or Irish-speaking, region).
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Ms. Yeomans is also a freelance illustrator who keeps a sketchbook on board and draws and paints tugboats, lighthouses and other nautical themes during down time.
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This isn't the 109-foot-tall iron structure's first brush with Cuban migrants, according to Kraig Anderson, who runs a website dedicated to lighthouses and their history.
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It seemed like something from the pages of an old fairytale book, and so I created a sound backdrop that included real sounds of lighthouses and waves.
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We're still far away from the ideals listed above, but they represent lighthouses to guide us toward the kind of workplace we are building here at Konsus.
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His art is a form of urban exploration, roving over, into and around Singapore, studying what few others see: outlying islets, sewage tunnels, buoys, lighthouses, sand barges.
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These historic landmarks are finding new life with the help of the Great Lighthouses of Ireland, a tourism trail introduced in 21951 that highlights 21967 exceptional examples.
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"Such communities of practice will increasingly be seen as lighthouses and field hospitals to those who might have once regarded them as peculiar and suspect," Deneen writes.
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The photos of course feature a number of relatively unpopulated beaches, landscapes, boats, piers, and lighthouses, and there are some unpeopled advertisements, posters, and postcards as well.
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Tensions have risen over the past two years as China has embarked on a massive land reclamation program -- turning sandbars into islands equipped with airfields, ports and lighthouses.
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Davenport refers to the beacons as "lighthouses illuminating virtual worlds" that allowed for static imagery to be cast onto the walls of the venue in sweeping 360 arcs.
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Yet it concluded that without GPS, delivery drivers could still use road maps, aircraft could still use terrestrial beacons, and ships could still use radar, buoys, and lighthouses.
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The novel's paranormal elements (a diabolical villain's glass eye has superhuman powers) do not fully counteract the ubiquity of the genre's tropes, like meetings conducted in remote lighthouses.
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A man-made North Star guiding sailors through the darkness and storms, lighthouses give us a false sense of security to cling to as we faces the unknown.
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Famous for it's spectacular landscapes, sandy beaches, shipwrecks and lighthouses, this rugged park can be found in the #YorkePeninsula region - which is home to more than 700km of coastline.
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This is huge, in that it means owners of the headset won't require any additional lighthouses or equipment to experience VR software where they can move around in space.
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Stay in one of the many small B&Bs, stop by one of the local bakeries every morning, visit the lighthouses, and end the day off at Cisco Brewers.
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Some things just have a tendency to give us the creeps: lighthouses at night, the rustle of leaves on a midnight sidewalk, and nondescript, windowless buildings in the woods.
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The Hanseatic League—an organization of German towns that long predated the German nation and cooperated on such win-win endeavors as building lighthouses—went into pirate-quelling mode.
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That is in addition to airstrips capable of handling large jets like one on Fiery Cross Reef, harbors to berth seagoing vessels, lighthouses and large buildings such as barracks.
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Lighthouses abound in Victoria, and the Cape Otway Lightstation, the oldest working lighthouse in Australia — and "the most important," according to the website — is worth going the extra mile.
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"Passengers traveling to the United States do not request to be dropped off at lighthouses located 6.5 nautical miles from shore," Assistant U.S. Attorney Dexter Lee argued in court documents.
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" A thesis of sorts can be found in the simple equation Dolin writes in the final pages: "[W]e will never return to time when new lighthouses will be built.
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"Sea level change and storm surge pose considerable risks to infrastructure, archeological sites, lighthouses, forts, and other historic structures in coastal units of the national park system," the report concluded.
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Tensions have risen in the contested waters after China embarked on a massive land reclamation program in 2014, turning sandbars and reefs into islands equipped with ports, airstrips and lighthouses.
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Norway's Ministry of Transport and Communication said eLoran was "outdated and had very few users", adding that lighthouses, markers, and radar beacons provided sufficient navigation safety in waters near the shore.
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Without ceremony, they've become as irrelevant a utility today as workhorses, lanterns, or sail-power; all those redundant lighthouses, unmanned and unmaintained, have left to be ground down by the sea.
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Although the Coast Guard will continue to visit auctioned lighthouses to maintain lamps that are crucial to navigation, the rest of the property will be the responsibility of the new owner.
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We understand the true nature of American expansion, characterized by federal land seizures from indigenous coastal tribes as the government built more lighthouses for the growing number of ports and trade routes.
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The island, which resembles a pair of handcuffs, is a complete world unto itself, with cliffs, bays, lakes and streams, olive groves, caves, bridges, mills, chapels, lighthouses, harbors, boatyards and a volcano.
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China has reclaimed seven reefs in the Spratlys islands, building two airfields, ports, lighthouses radars, and other military structures, which the United States has called a clear move to militarise the disputed area.
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A lifelong New Yorker, Hopper and his wife, Jo, took several extended road trips, during which he painted common elements of American life: hotels, motels and guesthouses; lighthouses; restaurants; city streets and interiors.
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The outposts were built in recent years by piling sand on top of coral reefs followed by the construction of military grade 0003,000-meter (10,000-foot) airstrips, barracks, lighthouses radar stations and other infrastructure.
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A satellite photos from the Asian Maritime Transparency Institute revealed just how much China has transformed this reef into a fully pledged island, reclaiming over 220 million square meters, adding lighthouses, even an airstrip.
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I was still very stoned from the medication and took a series of ill-framed photos from the side of the boat — gray crags on which the first lighthouses and trap sheds were perched.
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In New England, The Brewster House Bed and Breakfast, located in Freeport, Maine, allows their customers to charge at their location -- only a short distance from Wolfe's Neck State Park and several renowned lighthouses.
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Known for its lobster and lighthouses, Maine also has one of the oldest populations in the U.S. — the median age in the state is 43, around five years older than the rest of the country.
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Since 2000, the government has parted with 133 lighthouses: Preservationists have received 78 of them at no cost, and 55 have been auctioned to the public, the General Services Administration said in a news release.
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"Red Lens for Grenfell" by Anish Kapoor is a thick acrylic disc, reminiscent of lenses used in lighthouses, while a black-and-white photograph by Sarah Lucas has been renamed "Eating a Banana (for Grenfell)".
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By disarming the viewer with unassuming representations of lighthouses or fish, flowers or hillsides, the paintings lure the eye ever closer, as intermingled colors and fine gradations of light both constitute and complicate those objects.
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The spin rate is so consistent that people who navigate spacecraft around our solar system use them as mile markers to know exactly where they are in space—sort of as the lighthouses of the cosmos.
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Based on the timing of the IR hits, and the information the Lighthouses encode in their blasts, you can get ultra-precise positional coordinates in 3D space (x, y, and z) of the photodiode in question.
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China has rattled nerves with its military and construction activities on the islands in the South China Sea, including building runways, though Beijing says most of what it is building is for civilian purposes, like lighthouses.
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They say that Beijing is risking a dangerous escalation of regional tensions by expanding barren reefs and outcrops into artificial islands and by installing military outposts, lighthouses, airstrips and other infrastructure on islands under its control.
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The United States Coast Guard maintains its beacon, along with those at five lighthouses on Long Island: Orient Point, Old Field Point, Montauk Point, Horton Point and Huntington Harbor, according to Chief Warrant Officer Manny Zambrana.
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Tensions in the area have ratcheted up in the past two years as China has reclaimed land in massive dredging operations in the Spratly Islands, turning sandbars into islands equipped with airfields, weapons systems, ports and lighthouses.
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Others are green initiatives, from a line of solar-powered lighthouses to provide guidance to all travelers, to a chute of clean water sourced from the Pacific that represents a vision of a world with fluid borders.
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Tensions in the region have escalated over the last two years as China has claimed land in massive dredging operations in the contested waters, turning sandbars into islands equipped with airfields, ports and lighthouses in some cases.
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It was invented in the 19th century by a French physicist named Augustin Jean Fresnel and originally used in lighthouses to concentrate the beam so the light could be seen from as much as 20 miles away.
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It was hard to build a system that met the recommended specs to power VR headsets, and the headsets required things like dedicated lighthouses or base stations to follow the movements of your head or hands properly.
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The artist couple Arthur Dove and Helen Torr, who were among the earliest American experimenters with abstraction, lived there in the 1930s and '40s, and based their abstract and semiabstract canvases on nearby harbors, lighthouses and foghorns.
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China has rattled nerves with its military and construction activities on the islands it occupies in the South China Sea, including building runways, though Beijing says most of the construction is meant for civilian purposes, like lighthouses.
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Last week, Wang Yi, the foreign minister of China, said that the country's artificial islands in the South China Sea were being used for civilian purposes, pointing out that Beijing had built lighthouses and weather observation facilities there.
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In the past two years, the United States says China has reclaimed some 2,000 acres of land --- equivalent to 1,500 football fields -- in a massive dredging operation, turning tiny sandbars into islands equipped with airfields, ports and lighthouses.
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"Schools in difficult neighborhoods, where a lot of young people are dropping out, have to become the lighthouses, the cathedrals in our country," said Gabriel, who is also leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's junior partner, the Social Democrats.
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Connections to my Irish family normally provide a reason to visit obscure graveyards and quiet country towns not on most guidebook maps, but for this trip, two lighthouses in County Mayo and County Donegal would guide the way.
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For Lighthouse in the Sea of Time (2010), a darkened room invites the viewer to immerse themselves in the history of two lighthouses in Algeria — Cape Sigli (1905) and Cape Caxine (1938) — both monuments from the colonial period.
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He works for Milford Helicopters, where he goes on five or more flights a day, usually taking tourists to high mountain tops or delivering workers and supplies to small islands, lighthouses, and ships in the middle of the ocean.
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Located in the southern Adriatic and known as the sunniest Croatian island (a figure of 2,726 sunny hours per year is often quoted), Hvar offers many sights to behold — lighthouses, ancient forts, tiny villages and a jaw-dropping coastline.
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The words are from a poem written by Wolowiec, who likens its bisected structure to a call-and-response, or two lighthouses signaling each other across a watery expanse: he called it an interzone / the outlands can i tune you?
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Its "Lighthouses" content will cost roughly $100,353-per-minute to produce, which puts it on par with some of the most expensive shows on TV. Think "Game of Thrones" production costs, but for a series cut into smaller snackable episodes.
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In a separate article, the China Daily said Beijing has build two lighthouses and four beacons on the disputed Paracel Islands and has set up four base stations for radio communications and civilian cellphone networks, providing "complete coverage of the area".
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In the past two years, the United States says China has reclaimed some 2,000 acres of land in the waters -- equivalent to 1,500 football fields -- in a massive dredging operation, turning tiny sandbars into islands equipped with airfields, ports and lighthouses.
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U.S. sends warship close to island reclaimed by China Tensions have risen as China has reclaimed more than 2,000 acres of land in a massive dredging operation in the Spratly Islands, turning sandbars into islands equipped with airfields, ports and lighthouses.
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It has rock jewelry, perfect views of the aurora borealis, Mackinac Island fudge, winning college football teams, no toll roads, more than 120 lighthouses and endless beachfront property, stretched across the longest freshwater coastline of any state in the nation.
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Pioneers and symbols are important — needed even, as lighthouses in oceans where role models have been scarce — but more so is foundational change to an industry that continues to bet on our money as audiences, but not our talent and stories.
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High-resolution aerial images of China's reclamation efforts in the Spratly Islands, recently obtained by the Philippine Inquirer newspaper, show that the reefs and sandbars have been turned into island fortresses, with ports, air strips, lighthouses, hangars and multi-story buildings.
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A substantial part of this exhibition, organized by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, is devoted to a multipart project on the subject of lighthouses built under French colonial rule along the North African coastline, and still in use, weather-battered and outdated.
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But that's another highlight of the games; this one is the snap back to Rapture, which serves both to destroy a boss enemy, trapped outside the city and crushed by the pressure, and move the plot onwards to its wonderful ocean of lighthouses.
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From its depths spring images of creaky lighthouses and buried towers, great beasts moaning at dusk, and a brightness that grows inside you—just some of the features that haunt Area X, the mysterious wilderness at the center of his Southern Reach trilogy.
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China has embarked on a massive land reclamation program, turning sandbars into islands equipped with airfields, ports and lighthouses, but Wang said China honored President Xi's commitment not to militarize the South China Sea -- made while he visited the White House in September.
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Vapor Riders is a multi-headset, single-setup experience; what I mean by that is using multiple Vives in the same room-scale setup, so there's only two lighthouses but there could be as many as four or five users standing within them.
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Howard Koslow, a painter and illustrator who for more than four decades designed many of the most recognizable stamps issued by the United States Postal Service, including a 21999 series depicting famous blues and jazz musicians and 250 stamps depicting coastal lighthouses, died on Jan.
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Kasikorn, which was founded in 1945 and is one of Thailand's major banks, is calling the fund Beacon — think lights on top of lighthouses — and it is aimed at giving the firm first-mover advantage on global tech through startups based in Thailand and overseas.
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As the southern limit of the English Channel, Ushant is strategically positioned along an important shipping route, and many cargo ships travel by it every day—one of the reasons that the island's Phare du Creach is one of the strongest lighthouses in the world.
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As this new novel opens, it is the late 1870s and Ally, a pioneer in the male-dominated medical profession, has just met ginger-haired Tom, who has risen from a working-class background to work for a company building lighthouses throughout the world.
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The Heidi Shop was to us then what a trip to New York City or Paris might be now, its glass shelves full of trinkets, crystals, charms (to add to our bracelets), china animals, brass lighthouses, wind chimes, miniature musical instruments, wooden dolls wearing bonnets.
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Public sales of lighthouses have generated millions of dollars over the years — the Graves Island Light Station near Boston was sold at auction for more than $930,000 in 2013 — and they're used for multiple purposes, including vacation homes, bed-and-breakfasts, and concert venues.
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The first shows footage of the lighthouses and their serene environments on the southern Mediterranean coastline; the second documents an interview with Krimo, the lighthouse keeper at Cape Sigli since 2005, whose stories of Cape Sigli's history and his everyday life there flow together.
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The first, "Lighthouses," will be premium video stories that will cost $100,000 per minute to produce — on par with some of the most expensive shows on TV. "Quick Bites" will be three-to-seven minute standalone episodes of "reality and alternative," according to Katzenberg.
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When the lighthouse keeper still lived at the Eshaness (a lighthouse on the northwest of the main island — there are upward of 34 lighthouses on the islands), our guide told us, he used to chain his car to the cliff to make sure it didn't blow away.
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NASA announced yesterday that it had decided to fund the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE, pronounced ix-pee) mission, a polarized X-ray telescope, to help the bigger telescopes explore some of space's strangest phenomena—including the dead remains of exploded stars and galactic lighthouses called pulsars.
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A native of the borough and a tenured member of the art faculty at nearby Wagner College, Murphy derives inspiration from Staten Island's bridges, lighthouses, and array of half-sunk vessels, piers, and bulkheads that were abandoned when the city's ship and rail systems gave way to air freight.
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" While the story of a young boy sent to live with his termagant of an aunt tips the musical terrain toward Benjamin Britten-infused pop, what's on view largely wastes a talented cast, who are forced to deal with lines like "we'll be like lighthouses, you and me.
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Sinosphere HONG KONG — All the radar systems, lighthouses, barracks, ports and airfields that China has set up on its newly built island chain in the South China Sea require tremendous amounts of electricity, which is hard to come by in a place hundreds of miles from the country's power grid.
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These experiments measure the timing of pulsars, light sources that send beams to earth at regular intervals like lighthouses, explains Chiara Mingarelli, astrophysicist from the Flatiron Institute, in a blog post for Scientific American:PTAs take advantage of the regular arrival times of radio pulses from millisecond pulsars to search for gravitational waves.
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Most of it was petty, bumbling, and shabby: favoritism and graft, wheeling and dealing, mainly done not by the President but by the men around him, not least the notorious Grant staffer and Whiskey Ring swindler Orville Babcock, whom Grant could never bring himself to fire but instead rusticated by appointing him Inspector of Lighthouses.
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But among the towering, intimidating designs that range from solar-powered walls to a censor-filled smart wall, one proposal stands out: a portfolio of sparsely sketched prototypes that imagine a border lined with unconventional construction material, from hammocks strung on trees to vibrant painted lighthouses to 10 million pipe organs that would send songs out to the desert.
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"While the U.S. Navy is becoming a dangerous obstacle in Asian waters, China has been making joint efforts with the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to draw up a Code of Conduct for the South China Sea and it has boosted navigational safety by constructing five lighthouses on its islands," the China Daily said.
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