Lighthouse
noun
A tall building near the sea, with a flashing light at the top, used to guide ships.
The ship was guided safely to harbor by the lighthouse.
Often appears as...
- lighthouse keeper
- lighthouse beacon
noun
A tall building near the sea, with a flashing light at the top, used to guide ships.
The ship was guided safely to harbor by the lighthouse.
Often appears as...
- lighthouse keeper
- lighthouse beacon
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Pro Tip 1/3Nautical Significance
Lighthouses are crucial for maritime navigation; they're a symbol of safety and guidance for vessels.
Before GPS, sailors relied on the lighthouse to avoid shoals.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Symbol
Lighthouses often symbolize hope, guidance, and isolation in literature and movies.
The lighthouse stood as a beacon of hope for the lost travelers.
Pro Tip 3/3Architectural Icon
Lighthouses are iconic structures, each with unique designs, often becoming tourist attractions.
We visited the old lighthouse which had elaborate stonework and a spiral staircase.
Pro Tip 1/3Nautical Significance
Lighthouses are crucial for maritime navigation; they're a symbol of safety and guidance for vessels.
Before GPS, sailors relied on the lighthouse to avoid shoals.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Symbol
Lighthouses often symbolize hope, guidance, and isolation in literature and movies.
The lighthouse stood as a beacon of hope for the lost travelers.
Pro Tip 3/3Architectural Icon
Lighthouses are iconic structures, each with unique designs, often becoming tourist attractions.
We visited the old lighthouse which had elaborate stonework and a spiral staircase.
Pro Tip 1/3Nautical Significance
Lighthouses are crucial for maritime navigation; they're a symbol of safety and guidance for vessels.
Before GPS, sailors relied on the lighthouse to avoid shoals.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Symbol
Lighthouses often symbolize hope, guidance, and isolation in literature and movies.
The lighthouse stood as a beacon of hope for the lost travelers.
Pro Tip 3/3Architectural Icon
Lighthouses are iconic structures, each with unique designs, often becoming tourist attractions.
We visited the old lighthouse which had elaborate stonework and a spiral staircase.
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A journey through the...
There's a cave where all these animal-headed creatures travel between two worlds. They go from the representational world, to this analog-mesh underworld, where they're hiding. This is where the animal-headed creatures are by the lighthouse, and they're all about to commit mass suicide into the ocean. The ocean is made up of thousands of elements.
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On the Hill PIPE Sue in the...
between that and then I got to go touch the soil even when I was five four or five years old when people asked me in the mid sixties what do you want to be when you grow up I always said lighthouse keeper I've always been an extreme isolationist any happy about it you're really very lucky to have that and to be in the
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Humanity's Search for...
kind of like a lighthouse beacon -- when she began noticing a distinct correlation between their brightness and their blinking pattern. That correlation made it possible to measure the distance of stars for the very first time, furnishing the yardstick of the universe.
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NC Finalist PIPE National...
Lighthouse aided seaman during the Age of sail data banks is also the first place to a different form of transportation let's visit the wright brothers national memorial to find out more about the first flight here we are the wright brothers national memorial
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Tales from a modern...
about two miles from Eden's neck lighthouse and they dump them to this Long Island Sound is home to this massive stash of mob loot including hundreds if not thousands of pinball machines now on one of these dumps the police commissioner turns to reporter on
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How to recover from...
Some of my biggest dreams are nightmares. I have a nightmare that one day all the past will be forgotten and new clothes will be dripping the blood of past mistakes. I have a nightmare that one day the lighthouses of our humanity will crumble,
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NJ Finalist PIPE National...
May lighthouse if I could trade places with any famous explorer or Road leader unpick sir francis drake because he is a great adventurer and later and because he sailed around the world while leading the third voyage to ever do so my
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Todd Humphreys: How to...
All of a sudden your GPS readout goes blank, and now it's just you and the fog and whatever you can pull off the radar system if you remember how to work it. They -- in fact, they don't update or upkeep lighthouses
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How to fool a GPS - Todd...
lighthouses anymore and Loran the only backup to GPS was discontinued last year our modern society has a special relationship with GPS we're almost blindly reliant on it it's built deeply
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The most lightning-struck...
but today, sailors actually embrace this phenomenon. They call it the Maracaibo Beacon, and use it as a natural lighthouse to illuminate their path across the seas.
Video examples
A journey through the...
There's a cave where all these animal-headed creatures travel between two worlds. They go from the representational world, to this analog-mesh underworld, where they're hiding. This is where the animal-headed creatures are by the lighthouse, and they're all about to commit mass suicide into the ocean. The ocean is made up of thousands of elements.
Video examples
On the Hill PIPE Sue in the...
between that and then I got to go touch the soil even when I was five four or five years old when people asked me in the mid sixties what do you want to be when you grow up I always said lighthouse keeper I've always been an extreme isolationist any happy about it you're really very lucky to have that and to be in the
Video examples
Humanity's Search for...
kind of like a lighthouse beacon -- when she began noticing a distinct correlation between their brightness and their blinking pattern. That correlation made it possible to measure the distance of stars for the very first time, furnishing the yardstick of the universe.
Video examples
NC Finalist PIPE National...
Lighthouse aided seaman during the Age of sail data banks is also the first place to a different form of transportation let's visit the wright brothers national memorial to find out more about the first flight here we are the wright brothers national memorial
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Tales from a modern...
about two miles from Eden's neck lighthouse and they dump them to this Long Island Sound is home to this massive stash of mob loot including hundreds if not thousands of pinball machines now on one of these dumps the police commissioner turns to reporter on
Video examples
How to recover from...
Some of my biggest dreams are nightmares. I have a nightmare that one day all the past will be forgotten and new clothes will be dripping the blood of past mistakes. I have a nightmare that one day the lighthouses of our humanity will crumble,
Video examples
NJ Finalist PIPE National...
May lighthouse if I could trade places with any famous explorer or Road leader unpick sir francis drake because he is a great adventurer and later and because he sailed around the world while leading the third voyage to ever do so my
Video examples
Todd Humphreys: How to...
All of a sudden your GPS readout goes blank, and now it's just you and the fog and whatever you can pull off the radar system if you remember how to work it. They -- in fact, they don't update or upkeep lighthouses
Video examples
How to fool a GPS - Todd...
lighthouses anymore and Loran the only backup to GPS was discontinued last year our modern society has a special relationship with GPS we're almost blindly reliant on it it's built deeply
Video examples
The most lightning-struck...
but today, sailors actually embrace this phenomenon. They call it the Maracaibo Beacon, and use it as a natural lighthouse to illuminate their path across the seas.
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Robert Eggers
American Director
Three years into getting 'The Witch' financed, I was hanging out with my brother and he was like, 'I'm working on this script. It's a ghost story in a lighthouse.' I thought, 'Damn, that's a really good idea, I wish I'd had it.
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Garrett McNamara
Nazare is a special place for me; we got married right there, at the lighthouse. The seafood and wine are amazing. Best of all, there are no sharks: they are much more scary than a big wave.
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Dwight L. Moody
American Clergyman
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.
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Robert M. Pirsig
American Philosopher
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
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Kate Herron
Oh, I think I'd be a lighthouse keeper. I was living on my own for a lot through COVID, and I think I was quite good at it.
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George Downing
English Soldier
We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.
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Charles Simic
American Poet
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
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Charles Dickens
English Novelist
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
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Navjot Singh Sidhu
Indian Entertainer
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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Morrissey
English Musician
Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.
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Robert Eggers
American Director
Three years into getting 'The Witch' financed, I was hanging out with my brother and he was like, 'I'm working on this script. It's a ghost story in a lighthouse.' I thought, 'Damn, that's a really good idea, I wish I'd had it.
Quote examples
Garrett McNamara
Nazare is a special place for me; we got married right there, at the lighthouse. The seafood and wine are amazing. Best of all, there are no sharks: they are much more scary than a big wave.
Quote examples
Dwight L. Moody
American Clergyman
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.
Quote examples
Robert M. Pirsig
American Philosopher
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
Quote examples
Kate Herron
Oh, I think I'd be a lighthouse keeper. I was living on my own for a lot through COVID, and I think I was quite good at it.
Quote examples
George Downing
English Soldier
We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.
Quote examples
Charles Simic
American Poet
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
Quote examples
Charles Dickens
English Novelist
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Quote examples
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Indian Entertainer
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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Morrissey
English Musician
Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.
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