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Ad Santel

Santel lost his World Light Heavyweight Championship to Gobar Goho of Calcutta (now Kolkata), India on 30 August 1921 in San Francisco.

Bart Dickon

This nods in the direction of the original daily Dick Barton radio series on the BBC Light Programme from 1946-1951 (later in novels and a trio of low budget feature films), although the spelling of the original character, Snowey, has been changed - as has his gender from time to time.

Bryza

PZL M28B Bryza - a Polish STOL light maritime patrol, cargo and passenger plane

Carol Windley

Born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta, Windley's debut short story collection, Visible Light (1993) won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English Fiction and the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

CBD Rail Link

CBD Relief Line, a similar proposed rail link in Sydney, Australia

Color

After exposure to strong light in their sensitivity range, photoreceptors of a given type become desensitized.

Daníel Bjarnason

He has twice won awards at the Icelandic Music Awards—Best Composer/Best Composition, 2010 for Processions and Composer of the Year, 2013 for his works "The Isle Is Full of Noises" and "Over Light Earth." Also in 2013, he and Ben Frost won the Edda Award for best soundtrack for their score to the Baltasar Kormákur-directed film, The Deep.

Datong–Xi'an Passenger Railway

The high speed rail line will run down the length of Shanxi Province from Datong in the north through Shuozhou, Xinzhou, the provincial capital Taiyuan, Jinzhong, Linfen and Yuncheng.

David Carstens

He won the gold medal in the Light heavyweight competition in Los Angeles, beating Gino Rossi of Italy in the final match.

Deadly Towers

It is a pun of the word mashō (魔性), meaning "devilishness", and in keeping with this theme, the Japanese cartridge contained a red LED at the top which illuminated when turned on.

Eli Janney

Eli H. Janney (1831–1912), American inventor of the Janney coupler used in rail transport

Englewood, Kansas

The northern terminus was actually established in 1912 at Forgan, Oklahoma, then later rail service to Forgan ended in 1973, as Altus, Oklahoma became the northern terminus of the successor company.

Gaslight

Gas lighting, the use of flammable gas such as natural gas as a light source

HD 189733

HD 189733, also catalogued as V452 Vulpeculae, is a binary star system approximately 63 light-years away in the constellation of Vulpecula (the Fox).

Hessdalen light

The Hessdalen light is an unexplained light usually seen in the Hessdalen valley in the municipality of Holtålen in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway.

High Bridge Branch

1990s: Columbia Gas Transmission of West Virginia construct a gas line under the former rail bed, and the surface rights for the former High Bridge Branch line are transferred to the Hunterdon County Department of Parks and Recreation and Morris County Parks and Recreation for use as a recreational trail, known as Columbia Trail.

Humber-class monitor

Designed for service on the Amazon River, the ships were of shallow draft and heavy armament and were ideally suited to inshore, riverine and coastal work but unsuitable for service at sea, where their weight and light draft reduced their speed from a projected twelve knots to under four.

John Crowder

He appears as a character in The Long Walk to Finchley, on Thatcher's selection to succeed him as Conservative candidate for his seat - he is played, in a less than flattering light, by Geoffrey Palmer.

Josephus on Jesus

In 1971, a 10th-century Arabic version of the Testimonium due to Agapius of Hierapolis was brought to light by Shlomo Pines who also discovered a 12th-century Syriac version of Josephus by Michael the Syrian.

Kelly Stables

Her two largest roles were in the Thousand Oaks Civic Light Opera's Peter Pan as Wendy, and in Sleeping Beauty as the title character.

Kevin Gaughan

Gaughan wrote At First Light: Strengthening Buffalo Niagara in the New Century which was published by the Canisius College Press in 2003.

Kogarah, New South Wales

Commercial and light industrial developments are also located along the Princes Highway and Rocky Point Road.

Lesley Dill

In 2008, Dill conceived and directed a full-scale opera, “Divide Light,” based on the language of Emily Dickinson.

Lower Lake Fork Valley, Colorado

In 1881, the Denver and Rio Grande (D&RG) built a rail line into Gunnison and then continued to the west to Sapinero. Although a branch had been planned for Lake City, the lack of money delayed it.

Maricopa County, Arizona

The county has no other passenger rail transport as Amtrak's Sunset Limited, which once served Phoenix, has its closest stop in Maricopa, Arizona in neighboring Pinal County.

Marie Taylor

She briefly taught at Cardozo High School, and later started up summer science institutes for high school science teachers, bringing new methods of how to teach science, such as using light-microscopes to study cells.

Matt Light

In his senior season, 2000, Light earned first-team All-Big Ten recognition after starting 12 games at left tackle, helping an offensive line that gave up only seven sacks en route to a Big Ten title and Rose Bowl Game appearance.

Mr. America

Harmon Mister America, 1970s American single-seat light sports aircraft

Navan railway station

A rail replacement bus was introduced in 1958 and this route continues to this day as Bus Éireann route 188 (Navan-Slane-Duleek-Drogheda with a latter extension to Trim).

Olympic Dam, South Australia

Among the project's new infrastructure requirements were: a desalination plant at Point Lowly (Port Bonython), a rail link to Pimba, a worker accommodation village between Olympic Dam and Andamooka and a barge landing facility near Port Augusta.

Port Kembla, New South Wales

Patrick Corporation holds a contract for integrated port services in the harbour and transports goods by road or rail through its parent company Pacific National.

Portals network programming api

In light of emerging partitioned global address space (PGAS) languages, several new features have been added to the Portals API as part of Portals 4.

Ramgarh district

By rail: The nearest railway stations are Ramgarh Cant station (28 km), Ranchi Road (30 km), Barkakana (33 km), Ranchi (70 km), Koderma (135 km).

Ricky Bruch

As well as achieving his sporting career and his turbulent personal life, Bruch also acted in light-entertainment films, debuting in the Italian action comedy film Anche gli angeli tirano di destro and appearing in a minor role in the film version of Ronia the Robber's Daughter.

Rover Light Six

The act to promote the new Rover Light Six in a headline-grabbing campaign was the brainchild of former motorcycle tester and pioneer publicist Dudley Noble, in which a Light Six was to race the Blue Train across France from Calais to St Raphael on the Côte d'Azur.

Shuanggudui

Like Mawangdui and Guodian, two other tombs from the area of the old state of Chu, the Shuanggudui find has shed great light on the culture and practices of the early Han dynasty.

Siemens Viaggio Light

In February 2009, Ynet reported serious problems with the Viaggio Light model, including a longer stopping distance when traveling north, narrow doors and corridors, and problems with the Trainlift TR 450 technology.

Škoda 1202

The Škoda 1202 was a family car produced as a station wagon, light panel van and pick-up (Utility) by Czechoslovakian automaker AZNP at their subsidiary plant in Vrchlabí.

Skovorodino, Amur Oblast

An oil pipeline is currently under construction from Tayshet north of Lake Baikal to Skovorodino; it is intended for oil to be transported from here by rail to the port of Nakhodka on the Pacific, as well as to China.

South Beach Tow

According to cast member Christie Ashenoff, the idea for the program came after Tremont towed the car of Simon Fields: "He tells us that a few days later a light bulb went off in his head that if he lost his mind, that everyone else must too".

Spatial cutoff frequency

If it were not for the effects of diffraction, a 2" aperture telescope could theoretically be used to read newspapers on a planet circling Alpha Centauri, over four light-years distant.

The Reason 4

They also supported Peter Andre on a number of UK tour dates through the summer, played many light switch ons where they were joined on stage by Keith Lemon in Blackpool.

ThinCan

The tube came painted in one's choice of several transparent colors (black, dark blue, light blue, purple, red) for an authentic "Jetsons" feel.

Thiruvananthapuram Central railway station

It is the largest and busiest railway station in Kerala in terms of passenger movement and an important rail hub in Southern Railway.

Tom 'Diver' Derrick Bridge

But in 2005, in the wake of the death of Pope John Paul II, Mr Rann announced the rail bridge would be named after Saint Mary MacKillop.

Variobahn

In 1996, six trams were delivered to serve on the light rail between Mannheim, Heidelberg and Weinheim, Germany, operated by Oberrheinischen Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft.

VTOL

The Yakovlev Yak-38 was a Soviet Navy VTOL aircraft intended for use aboard their light carriers, cargoships, and capital ships.

Worlds of Fun

“Snoopy’s Hot Summer Lights” which debuted in 2010 is an immersive light and sound experience starring the Peanuts characters.

Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle light heavyweight

The men's freestyle light heavyweight was a freestyle wrestling event held as part of the Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics programme.

Zach Mills

In 2007 he appeared in the Hallmark movie The Valley of Light, and that year would also mark his leading role in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, in which he acted alongside Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman.


see also

22nd Street

Church and 22nd Street, a station on the San Francisco Municipal Railway light rail network's J Church line

30th Street

Church and 30th Street, a station on the San Francisco Municipal Railway light rail network's J Church line

30th Street and Dolores, a station on the San Francisco Municipal Railway light rail network's J Church line

Central Corridor

METRO Green Line, a light rail line under construction between Minneapolis and St. Paul that was known as the Central Corridor during the planning and early construction phase

Chung Fu Stop

It is the only elevated Light Rail stop in Tin Shui Wai, and the distance between it and Tin Fu Stop is the shortest in the current Light Rail system.

CITI Belfast

The CITI was a proposed light-rail system that would have served the under-construction Titanic Quarter and George Best Belfast City Airport in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Citytram

The Tram Power City Class Light Rail Vehicle (also referred to as the Citytram) is a prototype two car articulated electric tram previously tested on the Blackpool Tramway It operates off a power supply between 550V and 800V DC.

Cleveland Metro

RTA Rapid Transit, the subway and light rail system serving Cleveland, Ohio.

Connex Melbourne

Melbourne artist Van Thanh Rudd made an artwork attacking Connex's parent company Veolia Environnement's building of a light rail system linking up Israeli settlements.

East Didsbury

East Didsbury Metrolink station, a light rail stop in Didsbury, England; the terminus of Metrolink's South Manchester Line.

Eastlink

East Link, an extension of Sound Transit Link Light Rail in the Seattle metropolitan area

Glattalbahn

The Stadtbahn Glattal, a more recent light rail system also in the Swiss canton of Zurich

GoldLinQ

In June 2011 the GoldLinq consortium comprising Bombardier Transportation, Downer EDI, Keolis, McConnell Dowell and Plenary Group was awarded the contract to build the light and operate the Gold Coast light rail line for 18 years.

Harrington Road

Harrington Road tram stop, a light rail station in Croydon, London, England

Hohokam

Archaeological finds have been recorded along the track of the adjacent Valley Metro light-rail construction.

Hyde Road railway station

Shortly before its demise, the Fallowfield Loop line played an important role in the early development of the Manchester Metrolink system when the stretch of track at Debdale Park on the site of the former Hyde Road railway station was used in 1987 for a public demonstration of "Project Light Rail", the working title for the development of a new light rail/tram network in Manchester.

Interurban streetcars in Southern New England

The Green Line "D" Branch (formerly the Boston & Albany Railroad's Highland Branch) was converted in 1959 and runs modern light rail equipment; the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line was converted in 1929 and runs historic PCC streetcars.

Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit

A temporary light rail system for demonstration purposes, with just 2 stations, was built in the Central Park in 2004, using Melbourne D2 Tram cars from Siemens.

Karl Linn

With an overflowing wait list for plots in the refurbished Karl Linn Community Garden, he set his sights on a large weed-filled vacant lot across the street where the light rail tracks of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) enter an underground tunnel.

Kemper Freeman

In September 2013, Washington Supreme Court ruled that plans to build light rail over I-90 bridge do not violate Washington's Consitution.

Longbenton Metro station

The station itself predates the Metro light rail system; it was opened in July 1947 by the LNER, which operated electric suburban passenger services on the North Tyneside Loop, the predecessor of the Metro's Yellow line (see Tyneside Electrics).

LRTA

Light Rail Transit Association, a light rail transit advocacy group based in the United Kingdom

LYNX Silver Line

The Silver Line, or Southeast Corridor, would serve as a BRT (though light rail may be a small possibility) line between the CPCC Levine Campus in Matthews and the proposed Gateway Station in Uptown Charlotte.

Metrotranvía Mendoza

The service is provided by eleven Siemens–Duewag U2 light-rail vehicles (LRVs) acquired secondhand from the San Diego Trolley system in San Diego, California.

North/Northwest Phoenix

The mall grounds also contain a Valley Metro transit stop for buses, and is slated as a location for light rail service in the future.

O'Bryant Square

As a resting point, the park sits closely between many areas of interest to those in the street life, for example the Tri-Met transit mall, the east-west light rail service, the Portland Streetcar service, Powell's Books, and Burnside Street as well as Stark Street, home of Portland's The Roxy, which is open 24 hours most days.

Oldham King Street Metrolink station

Oldham King Street Metrolink station is a stop on the Oldham and Rochdale Line (ORL) of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system and is located opposite Oldham Sixth Form College, at the junction of King Street and Union Street in Oldham, England.

Packard's Corner

Packard's Corner is serviced by the Packards Corner stop on the B Branch of the MBTA's Green Line, a light rail line that runs mostly above ground.

Pioneer Square Station

Pioneer Square South and Pioneer Square North, a pair of stations on the MAX Light Rail in Portland, Oregon

Regional Transportation District

It is a 1.8-mile (2.9-km) branch with four stations that provides light rail access to numerous venues, including the Auraria Campus, Invesco Field at Mile High, Pepsi Center, Elitch Gardens, Union Station and Coors Field.

RijnGouweLijn

It will be the first system in the Netherlands where light rail vehicles will share heavy rail tracks with heavy rail trains, similar to the tram-train systems around Karlsruhe and Saarbrücken, Germany.

Riverside Line

Green Line "D" Branch, a light rail line connecting Boston and Riverside, Massachusetts

Rod Diridon, Sr.

In 1976, he chaired the campaign for the first successful half-cent sales tax for a transit district in California, has subsequently come to be known as "the father of VTA light rail," and is presently the executive director of the Mineta Transportation Institute.

Roosevelt Station

Roosevelt LRT Station, a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System in Manila, Philippines

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail

Light Rail also serves to connect commuters/travelers to the San Jose International Airport, Diridon Station and the transit systems it serves: (Caltrain, ACE, the Coast Starlight, the Capitol Corridor); and moves LRT riders to and from Silicon Valley, the Greater Bay Area, and beyond.

Shirley DeLibero

Her tenure at Texas was marked by the introduction of the METRORail light rail transit system and for scandals; In 2000, she was suspended for 30 days after failing to report a collision involving her company car.

Staten Island light rail

According to a news story aired on NY1 on March 8, 2007, many Staten Island residents endure very long commutes into Manhattan, and the West Shore Light Rail project would lessen this for many commuters.

Tamien

Tamien Station is a train and light rail station in San Jose, California.

The Big Move

The plan builds on 52 GO train, subway, light rail and bus rapid transit projects proposed by the Government of Ontario in its MoveOntario 2020 plan announced on June 15, 2007, and includes new projects to support them.

Tin Fu Stop

The distance between it and Chung Fu Stop is the shortest in the current Light Rail system.

TransAdelaide

The tram line had undergone a major A$71 million overhaul in 2005–2006 with new Bombardier Flexity light-rail vehicles replacing the aging H-type trams which had been in service since 1929.

Transdev Australasia

Transdev Sydney operates light rail services in Sydney on behalf of Transport for New South Wales.

Transportation in Arizona

The centerpiece of the plan is a light rail streetcar system (possibly similar to the Portland Streetcar in Oregon) that will travel through the downtown area, connecting the main University of Arizona campus with the Rio Nuevo master plan area on the western edge of downtown.

Tuen Mun Ferry Pier Stop

On the previous day, the Light Rail Transit system was declared open by Anne, Princess Royal, at this stop; the commemorative plaque she unveiled still remains intact.

Twin Cities Rail Transport

Rail transport in the Twin Cities currently consists of Amtrak service between Chicago and Seattle, the METRO Blue Line light rail service running between downtown Minneapolis and the Mall of America, passing by the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, and the Northstar Commuter Rail line between downtown Minneapolis and a number of northwest suburbs.

US Standard Light Rail Vehicle

When the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) in San Francisco, California, and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in Boston, Massachusetts, were looking at building new vehicles or import existing European vehicles, the UMTA created a committee (the BSF Committee) to design a standardized light rail car.