X-Nico

6 unusual facts about beacon


Beacon, New York

Beacon's most major route is Interstate 84 (I-84), which passes through the city's north side, providing a connection that is minutes to the Taconic State Parkway, New York State Thruway, and Stewart International Airport.

Drowning Mona — The movie's production studio, Code Entertainment, claims that the movie was based and partially filmed in the city during its 1999 filming.

Super Troopers — Film was based in the city and the "Town Cop" scenes as well as most of the inside scenes were filmed in the city in 1999.

Dia:Beacon

Dia:Beacon occupies a former Nabisco box-printing facility that was renovated by Dia with artist Robert Irwin and architects Alan Koch, Lyn Rice, Galia Solomonoff and Linda Taalman, then of OpenOffice.

Galia Solomonoff

Her notable projects include Dia:Beacon; the Defective Brick Project; multiple residential projects in Manhattan and Brooklyn; and competition proposals for institutional projects around the world.

Sarah Dreher

Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Literature 1969-1989, 1992 (Beacon)


1935 SABENA Savoia-Marchetti S.73 crash

Between 16:30 and 17:00 GMT, the aircraft crashed into the garden of a house named Mosscroft, in Tatsfield, located close to the Tatsfield Aerial Beacon.

2013 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

British newspaper The Guardian in its editorial section, hailed the 'ancient Irish' game of hurling as a beacon of sporting courage and commitment, Hopefully the Gaelic Athletic Association will do all sports fans everywhere a massive favour and produce DVD copies of this memorable game, where Clare emerged victorious.

Akron Beacon Journal

On August 2, 2006, McClatchy sold the Beacon Journal to Black Press, a Canadian company that owns over 100 newspapers, mainly weekly publications in British Columbia and Washington.

Alfred Mendes

Alfred Hubert Mendes (18 November 1897 – 1991), novelist and short-story writer, was a leading member of the 1930s "Beacon group" of writers (named after the literary magazine The Beacon) in Trinidad that included Albert Gomes, C. L. R. James and Ralph de Boissière.

Andrzej Pitynski

In January, 2006, his Partisans (1979) was removed from the corner of Beacon and Charles streets on the Boston Common, where it had stood since 1983.

Beacon Hill, Boston

On Beacon Street, the Bull and Finch Bar was inspiration and source of exterior shots for the Cheers television show.

Bhima Bhattar

His quest of producing new Jewellery items and honest practices ensured the rapid growth of his business, especially 22 carat Gold jewellery become the beacon of trust.

Boston Common

The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Afro-American 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry stands at Beacon and Park Streets, the northeast corner of the Common, opposite the State House.

Boston University Housing System

Students at the Holiday Inn are provided with a complimentary MBTA Subway pass, as the Green Line C passes nearby on Beacon Street.

Bridger Bowl Ski Area

Local skiers are alerted to the presence of fresh snow by a flashing blue beacon placed atop the Baxter Hotel in downtown Bozeman.

CA Anti-Spyware

In 2007, the CA Anti-Spyware team was instrumental in exposing the fact that Facebook was collecting personal information about their users, without their knowledge, even when those users opted out of Facebook's ill-fated Beacon program, and even when those users were not logged into Facebook.

Cambridge Bay LORAN Tower

Today the tower is used as a Non-directional beacon (NDB) and is often called the "CB" beacon after the morse code letters that it transmits on 245 kHz, with an output power of 2000 watts.

Charles Southwell

After a lecture tour and a spell as a well-reviewed Shakespearean actor, Southwell launched the Lancashire Beacon in 1849, which also failed to last a full year.

Deseado

A Tasmanian Police Kawasaki BK 117 rescue/Emergency medical services helicopter had earlier winched off the owner-yachtsman in 8 m waves on 16 April 2006 (Easter day), after he set off his EPIRB (radio beacon).

Erie Harbor North Pier Light

The United States Coast Guard, which operates the beacon, changed its fixed red beam to an automated red flashing light in 1995, at which time the 4th order Fresnel lens was sent to the Erie Maritime Museum.

Estate tax in the United States

William H. Gates, Sr. and Chuck Collins, with foreword by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes, Beacon Press (2003)

Facebook Beacon

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, said on the Facebook Blog in November 2011 that Beacon was a "mistake".

Fair Oak

The church, which has been designated a beacon church for the Winchester diocese, has links with Kware, a suburb of Nairobi in Kenya, via a hospital and school mission.

FV Big Valley

The vessel's EPIRB emergency beacon went off around 8:00am AST (UTC-9), at the beginning of the 2005 opilio crab hunting season.

George Trakas

Notable recent examples of his work include a waterfront nature walk at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn, New York; another waterfront installation adjacent to the Dia:Beacon museum in Beacon, New York; and public art in the New York City Subway at the Atlantic Avenue - Barclays Center station.

Granada Islamic School

Granada Islamic School (GIS) was founded in 1988 in Santa Clara, California, in memory of Granada, Spain (Andalusia) - the beacon of Islamic civilization in the West.

Hassocks F.C.

In October 2002, an ex-Arsenal and Celebrity Team visited to help celebrate the centenary with Steve Williams, Peter Marinello, Terry Marsh, Martin Offiah and Ralf Little all gracing The Beacon.

Jai Johanny Johanson

This practice came to a final halt, after forty years of performances since the Cirque du Soleil was given a permanent contract year-round at the Beacon Theatre.

Khodovarikha

In 1942 it was shelled by the Kriegsmarine during Operation Wunderland because it was an important beacon for the Russian convoy route coming from the Yugorsky Strait.

Mavis Beacon

Mavis's name comes from a combination of Mavis Staples (one of the software developer's favorite singers) and the word beacon (an allusion to her role as a guide to typing).

Montol Festival

During the festival there are a series of workshops dedicated to the making of Lanterns which are used in a large lantern parade on 21 December in Penzance Town Centre followed by the lighting of a beacon at Lescudjack Hill Fort one of the most ancient sites in the Penzance parish.

One Tree Hill, Honor Oak

Before the end of the eighteenth century, the East India Company built a semaphore station on the top of the hill to signal when ships were sighted in the Channel, and it was used as a beacon point by the Admiralty during the Napoleonic Wars.

Optical communication

When electronic equipment is not employed the 'receiver' is a person visually observing and interpreting a signal, which may be either simple (such as the presence of a beacon fire) or complex (such as lights using color codes or flashed in a Morse code sequence).

Par Avion

Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews), Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly), John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), Danielle Rousseau (Mira Furlan) and the captured Other Mikhail Bakunin (Andrew Divoff) learn from Mikhail that the implosion at "The Swan" station sent an electromagnetic pulse which wiped out an underwater beacon.

Peakin' at the Beacon

Peakin' at the Beacon was the first Allman Brothers Band album to include Derek Trucks on guitar and Oteil Burbridge on bass, and the last to include founding member Dickey Betts.

Peninsula Ultra Fun Run

The route runs from Cape Point to Red Hill Pass, through the Simon's Town Water Catchment Area to Black Hill, via Ou Kaapse Weg across Fish Hoek Valley to Silvermine Nature Reserve, through Tokai Forest Plantation and the Vlakkenberg footpath to Constantia Nek, over Table Mountain to the summit at Maclear's Beacon (1,086 metres above sea level), then down Platteklip Gorge to Kloofnek, via Signal Hill to Granger Bay.

Reformed Church of Beacon

The Reformed Church of Beacon shows the influence of William Butterfield's contemporary All Saints Church in London's Fitzrovia neighborhood, and writings by John Ruskin such as Seven Lamps of Architecture and Stones of Venice.

Representing NYC

Nine 11 Thesaurus, originally Nine 11 GZG, began as a loose collection of MCs meeting at The Beacon center for Arts and Leadership's Teen Action Program, but has now congealed in an 8 strong rap team and are presently preparing for the release of their first record which is being pushed out into the world by seminal New York underground record label The Social Registry.

Sedgley

Sedgley Beacon Hill provides views across the Black Country, Cannock Chase and Birmingham to the east, and to the Wrekin, Clee Hills and Malvern Hills to the west; on very clear days it is possible to see the hills of North Staffordshire and Derbyshire, as well as the mountains of both North and South Wales.

String Driven Thing

Singer Kim Beacon, guitarist Andy Roberts and bassist James Exel joined the band, with Roberts and Exel collaborating for much of the songwriting, including the single "Cruel To Fool" produced by Shel Talmy.

The Beacon

Al-Manar (The Beacon), a Lebanese satellite television station

Tim Tierney

Prior to being elected, he served as the President of the Beacon Hill North Community Association, where he played an integral part in keeping Colonel By Secondary School open during the Ottawa East Secondary Accommodation Study in 2008 and 2009.

Transmission balise-locomotive

Transmission balise-locomotive (Dutch: Transmissie Baken Locomotief) (TBL) (English "Transmission Beacon Locomotive") is a train protection system used in Belgium and on Hong Kong's East Rail Line.

Tremont Street

Sir Thomas Hyde Page of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers, shows Beacon Hill, Mount Whoredom, and another unnamed hill all just above Beacon Street.

UFO 2: Flying

UFO 2: Flying (sometimes simply UFO 2 or Flying; also subtitled One Hour Space Rock) is the second album by UFO released in 1971 (see 1971 in music) on the Beacon label; it was issued on CD in 1999 on Repertoire Records.

Urban Light

He called the artwork "an extraordinary beacon" that "lights up a desperate part of Wilshire that felt almost abandoned at night." Urban Light was featured in the Tori Amos video Maybe California and the film Valentine's Day.

Water resources

Pearce, Fred When the Rivers Run Dry: Water—The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century Beacon Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8070-8572-3 ISBN 978-0-8070-8572-1

Windows of Hope Family Relief Fund

With much support from colleagues throughout the industry, the fund was founded by a core group of restaurant professionals: Darlene Dwyer, a public relations consultant in the food industry; David Emil, an owner and operator of Windows on the World at the time; chef Michael Lomonaco, executive chef at Windows on the World at the time; chef Waldy Malouf, chef and co-owner of the New York restaurant, Beacon; and chef Tom Valenti, chef and owner of the restaurant Ouest.

WLXV

Weekend programming includes the Hot AC version American Top 40 with Ryan Seacrest Sundays; The Hollywood5 with Kidd Kraddick, Nina Blackwood's Absolutely 80's and Kid Kelly's Back Trax USA ('90s version) on Saturdays; and The Beacon with Austin Harris on Sunday mornings.


see also