It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

The distinctive round window high in the south transept was originally lit up at night as a beacon for mariners.

The beacon was partially destroyed during early World War II by the Japanese attacks, but was rebuilt in the early 1960s by men from the U. S. Coast Guard ship Blackhaw.

By 2000, the beacon was reported to be crumbling and it had not been painted in decades.

One stormy night a high wind extinguished the beacon, and Leander was drowned.

Phosphate and copra entrepreneur John T. Arundel visited the island in 1909 and near the beach landing on the western shore a tumbled, pyramidal day beacon made from slats of wood was repaired, painted white and stood at least until 1942.

Starting out as a cluster of large, open tents pitched next to the still-standing white wooden day beacon, the Millersville settlement on the island's western shore was named after a bureaucrat with the United States Department of Air Commerce.

After the Muslims took over all of Egypt, the top of the Pharos supposedly became a mosque, as the beacon was no longer in working order.

When the Romulan / Cardassian fleet arrived at the Founders ' homeworld, they bombarded it, only to realize that the planet was deserted except for a token beacon.

The narrator hypothesises that this " sentinel " was left on the moon as a " warning beacon " for possible intelligent and spacefaring species that might develop on Earth.

The scheme was seen as an early example of what some saw as Tony Blair's often excessive optimism, who stated at the Dome's opening: " In the Dome we have a creation that, I believe, will truly be a beacon to the world ".

It was intended that the spacecraft would provide a radio beacon for precision landings of manned spacecraft.

The Vanguard satellite was thrown clear and landed on the ground a short distance away with its transmitters still sending out a beacon signal.

Torriano Avenue, dating back to 1848, is a popular Kentish Town street being home to Pete Stanley, one of the country's best-known bluegrass banjo players, British actor Bill Nighy, The Torriano Poets, a beacon of culture where local poets have met for over 20 years and still hold weekly public poetry readings on Sunday evenings ; its founder was John Rety.

Higher up the village, the Church of St Nicholas has two towers: the main tower is over 100 ft ( 30 m ) high and a well-known landmark for miles around, and the smaller tower was built as a beacon to guide boats into Blakeney harbour.

With its ample supply of water and prosperous trading center, it truly was a shining beacon and sanctuary in the desert for those thousands of travelers who depended upon its resources for their survival.

The lighthouse's beacon was turned off in the 1940s, and the structure is no longer an important navigation aid for lake freighters, although small boaters still refer to the location.

Old Baldy was downgraded from a lighthouse to a navigational radio beacon in 1935.

This lighthouse was of utmost importance because it controlled the nighttime pass ; whoever governed the light beacon regulated the night time passageway.

The old naval navigation tower ( German: Peilturm ) was built in 1927 of brick and acted as an marine navigation beacon.

* The Nantucket Lightship LV-117 was rammed and sunk in 1934 by RMS Olympic homing in on its radio beacon, with a loss of seven out of a crew of eleven.

The original method was to place a spinning mirror which moves around a light bulb, called a " rotating beacon ".

The beacon system was widely used in the post-war era for blind bombing systems.

He also explained that the building had originally been intended to look like a candle, with a flame-like weather beacon on top, changing colour to reflect the weather.

The building's golden tower was originally covered with gold-gilded tiles, but these were removed during World War II due to fears they could become a beacon for enemy bombers.

It was originally constructed with a bell on its top, which in 1986 was replaced with a beacon.

Hook Head is the oldest continuous ( with some interruptions ) light in Ireland, it was originally a signal fire or beacon tended by the monk Dubhán in the fifth century.

* On 31 May 1934 an Air France aircraft carrying newspapers to Paris crashed after hitting the mast of an aircraft radio navigation beacon that had been erected off the end of the white-line takeoff path, killing the two crew.

It is the site of a beacon, and a cross is erected at Easter.

HMS X20 and HMS X23 arrived in position on 4 June and, due to the delay caused by bad weather, remained in position until 4: 30am on 6 June ( D-Day ) when they surfaced, erected the navigational aids, an 18-foot telescopic mast with a light shining to seaward, a radio beacon and echo sounder tapping out a message for the minelayers approaching ' Sword ' and ' Juno ' beaches.

A modern beacon was erected and lit during 1988, the 300th anniversary.

The current beacon was erected in the year 2000 to celebrate the Millennium, the beacon serves no actual purpose and it is a common misconception that it is used to alert low flying aircraft.

The site was declared a monument in 1977 ( Item 27304 in SAHRA registry ) and a stone beacon with bronze plaque for the lane was erected on the corner of Lombard and Kruger Street at the time.

The first lighthouse, a wooden one with an oil-burning beacon at the top, was erected at Point Gellibrand in 1840.

The beacon was erected in 1982, and reconstructed by the Colombian Ministry of Defence in February 2008.

The beacon at the summit was erected to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George VI in 1935.

It also has a replica of a Vippefyr, an early type of beacon or lighthouse, erected in 1932.

A wooden day beacon was erected in 1799 but lasted only five years.

There was probably some sort of a beacon at an earlier period but the first distinct intimation concerning a lighthouse on the North Foreland is in the year 1636 when Charles I by letters-patent granted to Sir John Meldrum licence to continue and renew the lighthouses erected on the North and South Forelands.

The Watch Hill Lighthouse in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, has served as a nautical beacon for ships since 1745, when the Rhode Island colonial government erected a watchtower and beacon during the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War.

A tall electric light beacon, which doubled as a water tower, was erected near the center of the park.