Then the lights went out.

He went around the corner and parked, turning off his lights and motor.

In her journal for Christmas Eve 1832, the delighted 13-year-old princess wrote, " After dinner … we then went into the drawing-room near the dining-room … There were two large round tables on which were placed two trees hung with lights and sugar ornaments.

The relics were said to have been later rediscovered in the 9th century by a hermit named Pelagius, who after observing strange lights in a local forest went for help after the local bishop, Theodemar of Iria, in the west of Galicia.

The electric arc lights went into regular service on December 20, 1880.

He remembered one day being ten meters underwater and " suddenly the lights went out.

These allowed a naked dancer's body to be concealed by her fans or those of her attendants, until the end of an act, when she posed naked for a brief interval whilst standing stock still, and the lights went out or the curtain dropped to allow her to leave the stage.

As they started to shoot the scene, one string of bridge lights went out and Allen was forced to use that take.

The writer Sheridan Morley described Hiller as being remarkable in her " extreme untheatricality until the house lights went down, whereupon she would deliver a performance of breathtaking reality and expertise.

Consulting President Abraham Lincoln, he organized a balloon corps during the Civil War, and went on to invent the ice-making machine, and later the water-gas process which for years ran gas lights in hundreds of cities.

Of course, the real story was not as fantastic as the fictional radio drama – all that had occurred was that the Superior Portland cement company's electrical sub-station suffered a short-circuit with a flash of brilliant light, and all the town's lights went dark.

( Toscanini then left the opera pit, the lights went up and the audience left in silence.

During round three of the rematch, the lights went off the sports facility where the fight was held at, and the fighters had to keep boxing under a complete obscurity.

For the live show in support of this album, " Ave Satani ", the main theme from Jerry Goldsmith's Oscar-winning soundtrack for The Omen, was used as the intro tape, beginning as the house lights went down.

These allowed a naked dancer's body to be concealed by her fans or those of her attendants, until the end of an act, when she posed naked for a brief interval whilst standing stock still, and the lights went out or the curtain dropped to allow her to leave the stage.

In the report Fireman Sim Webb states that he heard the torpedo explode, then went to the gangway on the engineer's side and saw the flagman with the red and white lights standing alongside the tracks.

The lights in the room unexpectedly went out, and when relit, the charter had disappeared.

After discussing the battle that they had with Kraven years ago, and the fact that he had given samples of the X-Men's DNA to Sinister for cloning, the lights went out on the wing where they were located.

He went into the New York subways with lights and photographic background paper to portray the bedraggled homeless as art objects, as well as producing some rather tender but sometimes decidedly kinky portraits of couples.

" When the lights went out at Lionel.

After round two, the TV went " Off the Air " ( accompanied by a siren sound effect and the studio lights flashing on and off ), and the contestant in last place at that moment was also thrown " Off the Air " and eliminated from the game.

Meanwhile, Kerry Von Erich won the World Class title from Perez ; and lost it to Iceman Parsons following an infamous incident during a March 1988 card in which the lights at the Sportatorium went out during the match, and when the lights returned, Kerry was down on the mat, with Parsons pinning him.

At least when the Titanic went down, the lights were on.

He stood very still, his arms at his sides, staring up at the heavens, then down at the blinking lights below.

Why, when I drove down to church, didn't it speak to me, seeing the lights still on and the day crisp and clear??

Simple examples are vending machines which dispense products when the proper combination of coins are deposited, elevators which drop riders off at upper floors before going down, traffic lights which change sequence when cars are waiting, and combination locks which require the input of combination numbers in the proper order.

The mascot has established a reputation for making dramatic entrances including bungee jumping off the stadium lights, sliding down a rope from the scoreboard and parachuting into the stadium.

** The family observed pots and pans being thrown around the kitchen, blinds moving up and down, lights going on and off, doors locking themselves, chairs flying across the room, and cupboard doors opening and banging shut before being ripped off their hinges among other phenomena.

1994 Porsche 968 cabriolet, top down and lights up

When he only sees lights and shapes, he puts this down to being a bad visualiser, however, he experiences a great change in his perception of the external world.

Some airports have more complicated lighting on the runways including lights that run down the centerline of the runway and lights that help indicate the approach ( an approach lighting system, or ALS ).

Friday: Run Act III, runthrough of entire play, no scripts in hand and technicals, meaning lights and sound, to watch and write down cues.

In the Bogdanov modern dress production, after the house lights go down, nothing happens on stage for a moment.

* 9 June 1973: a Varig cargo Boeing 707-327C registration PP-VJL flying from Campinas-Viracopos to Rio de Janeiro-Galeão while making an instrument approach to Rio de Janeiro-Galeão had technical problems with the spoilers which eventually caused the aircraft to pitch down, descended fast, struck approach lights and ditch.

There are three known airports in Lyon County, The Yerington Airport, The Silver Springs Airport with 7200 feet long runway capable of accepting 737's, its runway lights are visible when driving down on Fir Street from Ramsey Weeks cut-off to 95A ; and The Tiger Field on 95A from Fernley with a dirt runway of 2, 750 feet and a paved runway of 5, 600 feet.

Where once even many traffic lights were shut down or bagged up, increased traffic from golfers and Ocean City Convention Center conventions has convinced many seasonal restaurants and hotels to remain open.

" Downtown New Brighton " is distinguishable from other areas of the town because of the old-fashioned street lights set approximately twenty feet ( 6 m ) apart down the entire road.

The monsoon can bring storms in the summer, like July 3, 2011, bringing floods, thunderstorms, and shutting down traffic lights.

In the summer, the monsoon can reach the area, bringing heavy rains, and thunderstorms ( like July 3, 2011, when flooding occured, shutting down traffic lights ).

Since 1947, the Berwick Christmas Boulevard, created by the Jaycees, displays over a mile long Christmas show of lights and displays down Market Street.

As the scene progressed, the red lights were turned down and green lights were brought up.

Flashing Yellow / Orange: Cross with caution, usually used when lights are out of order or shut down for the night, for low traffic

After a dummy light was knocked down by a truck in 2010, the city of Coleman, Texas decided to preserve and refurbish its last two pedestal mounted dummy lights as part of its historic district preservation efforts.

Since all spares were provided by Siemens, the equipment, like traffic lights eventually broke down, and projects like the metro expansion were abandoned.