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unusual facts about The Lighthouse


The Lighthouse's Tale

A critic for the Houston Chronicle said in an article regarding the release of Why Should the Fire Die? that Nickel Creek once "sung sweetly about foxes and lighthouses", however, two thirds of the characters in "The Lighthouse's Tale" die.


Neil Mackie

He created the title role in Davies's opera The Martyrdom of St Magnus and Sandy in his The Lighthouse and performed in the world premieres of Davies's Into the Labyrinth, cantata for tenor and chamber orchestra, and The Jacobite Rising.


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Aegean Maritime Museum

The garden of the Aegean Maritime Museum, aside from displaying the lighthouse, has a number of ancient sailors' marble gravestones collected from the islands of Mykonos and Delos.

Amiel Weeks Whipple

Whipple converted to Catholicism in Detroit circa 1857, when commanding the lighthouse districts from Lake Superior to the Saint Lawrence River.

Ángel Rivero Méndez

The following day U.S. Marine Lieutenant John A. Lejeune came ashore with a detachment of Marines and evacuated the civilians and Marines for transport to Ponce, and the lighthouse was abandoned.

Battle of Fajardo

The sailors seized the "Faro de Las Cabezas de San Juan" (Cape San Juan lighthouse), posted the American flag and ordered the lighthouse keepers to continue working.

Bell Rock Lighthouse

The challenges faced in the building of the lighthouse have led to it being described as one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World.

Belle Tout lighthouse

The lighthouse was further immortalised in the song "Belle Tout" by British rock band Subterraneans, and in the movie B Monkey starring Asia Argento.

Belyea's Point Light

The lighthouse is named for its original keeper, "Spafford Barker Belyea" and the area's original United Empire Loyalist settler, "Hendrick Belyea".

Big Bay Point Light

There have been at least two notable deaths associated with the lighthouse, which have given rise to the belief that the light is haunted, and have inspired the book and movie Anatomy of a Murder.

Bittangabee Bay

The derelict stone storehouse at Bittangabee Bay is the only standing building within 6 kilometres (from the lighthouse and beach houses at Wonboyn), and was where supplies for Green Cape Lighthouse were left to be collected, until a passable road was built.

Blackwell Island Light

The lighthouse was operated by the City instead of the U.S. Lighthouse Board.

Cape Liptrap Lighthouse

The lighthouse warns ships of the rocks in treacherous Bass Strait.

Cape Point

The Flying Dutchman Funicular runs from a car park to the north up to slightly below the level of the old lighthouse and a short flight of steps leads to a viewing platform around the base of the lighthouse.

Cape Vincent, New York

The lighthouse marking the entrance to the St. Lawrence Seaway is now a youth hostel operated by Hostelling International USA.

Chandler blueberry

The Chandler blueberry appears in the Lighthouse Cove area of FarmVille, a farming simulation social network game developed by Zynga.

Cockspur Island Light

Florence Martus, The Waving Girl, famous sister of the lighthouse keeper.

Cyrus Willard

He returned to San Francisco in 1861, where he was superintendent of construction with the Lighthouse Construction Department of the United States Lighthouse Service.

Finding Myself

According to Victoria, the title should have been "From The Lighthouse" (inspired by Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse), but as they never managed to actually visit it, she turns it into "Finding Myself" at the last moment.

Fisherman's Village

Live Music: Free concerts are held in fountain square, near the lighthouse, both weekend afternoons throughout the year, weather permitting.

Great Duck Island, Maine

The island was inhabited year-round from sometime after 1837 when William Gilley purchased the island, until 1986 when the Coast Guard left and the lighthouse was automated.

Gunfleet Lighthouse

In 1974 an attempt was made to use the lighthouse as a base for a pirate radio station Radio Atlantis but this was thwarted by the authorities.

Japanese submarine I-26

In the evening of 20 June 1942, while patrolling two miles off the coast of British Columbia, I-26 surfaced and shelled the lighthouse and radio-direction-finding (RDF) installation at Estevan Point.

La Jument

The lighthouse became well known in 1989, through a series of photographs taken by Jean Guichard.

Lindau Lighthouse

The lighthouse and the entire port of Lindau were originally built by the Bavarian Railway Company and later used to be operated by the shipping department for Lake Constance of Deutsche Bahn.

Milan Asadurov

He was editor-in-chief of The Lighthouse Almanac and the scientific series of Neptun Publishing where he publishes works of Thor Heyerdahl and Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

Minot's Ledge Light

Plans for a new stone edifice were meanwhile drawn up for the Lighthouse Board by Brigadier General Joseph G. Totten; model makers built the proposed new structure in miniature; the same location was decided upon; and Barton S. Alexander, of the United States Engineers, started work on its construction in April 1855.

Montauk Point Light

On March 2, 2012 United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar officially designated the lighthouse as a National Historic Landmark; it is the 14th site on Long Island and the 11th lighthouse in the country to be so recognized.

MV Nimbin

The steamer Arakoon which had been loaded a quantity of salvage gear and had dispatched from Sydney late on the Monday night to assist the Nimbin was advised the same morning that the Nimbin was refloated by a message sent from the lighthouse-keeper at Seal Rocks.

Old Caloundra Light

The lighthouse's last active power source was a 500 Watt 110 Volt Philips lamp, fed by the Mains electricity.

Old Higher Lighthouse

The doctor, pioneer of birth control and Portland Museum founder Marie Stopes owned the lighthouse from 1923 until her death in 1958 where over time some of her visitors included George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells and Thomas Hardy.

Pisang Island

The lighthouse is currently operated by Singapore, and whilst the republic has publicly announced recognition that the island is Malaysian, the recent International Court of Justice decision in favour of Singapore over Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) dispute have given rise to fears that Singapore may one day lay claim to Pulau Pisang as well.

Point Bolivar Lighthouse

The 1970 film My Sweet Charlie, starring Patty Duke and Al Freeman Jr. was filmed at the lighthouse and adjacent caretaker's house.

Point Lookout State Park

The park is used as the setting in the Point Lookout add-on for the video game Fallout 3, which includes references to its use as a POW camp as well as various features of the park, including Calvert's manor and the lighthouse.

Point Lynas Lighthouse

The Lighthouse is considered to be important for its association with Jesse Hartley, the engineer responsible for the world's first great floating-dock system at Liverpool

Point Montara Light

In 2001 the lighthouse, specifically the hostel, was used in the film Bandits starring Bruce Willis, Cate Blanchett and Billy Bob Thornton.

Point Reyes Lighthouse

The lighthouse was used as a location for the 1980 John Carpenter film The Fog.

Santa Cruz Surfing Museum

The lighthouse was built in 1967 as a memorial to surfer Mark Abott, who died while surfing at the nearby Pleasure Point surf break.

Sarah Parcak

On December 31, 2013, she was the focus of Dan Snow's documentary "Rome's Lost Empire" on BBC Four, prospectively identifying several potentially significant sites including the arena at Portus; the lighthouse and a canal alongside the river Tiber directly to Rome.

Shdwan Battle

There was a company of infantry and naval soldiers for guarding the lighthouse which is located in the south of the Island.

Souter Lighthouse

The lighthouse is said to be haunted, and has even featured on British TV's Most Haunted ghost-hunting programme.

South Foreland

There was also a coastal artillery battery with four Mk X 9.2" guns and a network of bunkers and ammunition stores, northeast of the lighthouse on the road to St Margarets.

The Monster of Piedras Blancas

The lighthouse locations in the movie were filmed at the Point Conception lighthouse near Lompoc, and the movie's "town" is actually the seaside town of Cayucos, about 30 miles south of the real Piedras Blancas.

Weslemkoon Lake

The lighthouse cottage has been said to have been visited by Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.

Winterton Lighthouse

After the war, the lighthouse was the home of Viscount Elmley, M.P. for East Norfolk.