A stylised representation of the Lighthouse appears on the flag and seal of the Governorate and on many public services of the city, including the seal of Alexandria University.

* A replica of the Lighthouse of Alexandria was constructed in the Window of the World Cultural Park in Shenzhen, China.

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2006 ) of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, on the island of Pharos

At Pharos — in Hellenistic times the site of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, ( in modern Greek the word still has the meaning " lighthouse )— a king of Egypt named Proteus welcomed Dionysus in the young god's wanderings.

* Remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria ( one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ) are toppled by a series of earthquakes.

* August 8 – An earthquake destroys the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt, one of the seven wonders of the world.

* An earthquake badly damages the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, designed by Sostratus of Cnidus and built during the reign of Ptolemy I Soter served as the city's landmark, and later, lighthouse.

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Originally the gate, being part of the Walls of Babylon, was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the world until, in the 6th century AD, it was replaced by the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

Thür's proposed identification of the skeleton was based on the shape of the tomb ( octagonal, like the Lighthouse of Alexandria ), the carbon dating of the bones ( between 200-20 BC ), the gender of the skeleton, and the age of the young woman at death.

Burton designed two lighthouses for the town: The Upper Lighthouse, usually referred to as the Pharos ( after the Pharos of Alexandria in Egypt, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ), can be seen for 13 miles, and Beach Lighthouse is visible for 9 miles.

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The Latin word farum is derived from the Greek pharos for the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

It is thought to be modeled after the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

* The Lighthouse of Alexandria, Egypt

The tower is fashioned after the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt.

In the city he visited the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which at that time was still standing, and he was amazed by its size and splendour.

Tower of Hercules, a Roman lighthouse at La Coruna modelled on the Lighthouse of Alexandria | Pharos

Also of interest are the High Lighthouse ( 1818 ); the unusual Treadwheel Crane ( late 17th century ); the Electric Palace Cinema ( 1911 ), one of the oldest purpose-built cinemas to survive complete with its original projection room and ornamental frontage still intact and operational ; the Old Custom Houses on West Street ; and a number of Victorian shopfronts.

Henri Bergson ( 1859 – 1941 ), on the other hand, emphasized the difference between scientific, clock time and the direct, subjective, human experience of time His work on time and consciousness " had a great influence on twentieth-century novelists ," especially those modernists who used the stream of consciousness technique, such as Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, ( 1915 ), James Joyce, Ulysses ( 1922 ) and Virginia Woolf ( 1882 – 1941 ) Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ), To the Lighthouse ( 1927 ).

* Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program ( LAMP ), St. Augustine, Florida

* Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program ( LAMP ), St. Augustine, Florida

The European rock is usually identified with an islet, about 20m wide and 200m long, which stands about 100m off the shore of a village called Rumeli Feneri (' Lighthouse of Rumeli ), and is connected to it by a modern concrete jetty.

Musicians Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode and Recoil, Nick Midson ( formerly of Threshold ), actress Daniela Denby-Ashe, Ian Gillan of Deep Purple, Mick Jones of punk band The Clash, the highly influential Big Audio Dynamite and latterly Carbon / Silicon, Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols, Robert Smith of The Cure, Pete Doherty, of The Libertines and Babyshambles, Dave Kerr-Clemenson ( Edison Lighthouse / White Plains ) as well as Matador Records founder Gerard Cosloy, are all fans of the club.

The other modernist novelists that are associated with the use of this narrative technique are James Joyce in Ulysses ( 1922 ), Virginia Woolf in Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ) and To the Lighthouse ( 1927 ) and William Faulkner in The Sound and the Fury ( 1928 ).

On March 15, 2006, a large fire destroyed Bowen's Inn ( established in the 1800s ), The Lighthouse Inn restaurant ( established in 1984 ), and a condominium building.

Truro is the site of the Cape Cod Highland Lighthouse ( also known as the Cape Cod Light ), the first lighthouse on Cape Cod.

Filming took place at The Thunder Bay Inn, the Big Bay Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast, The Lumberjack Tavern ( scene of the real 1952 crime on which the film is based ), Perkins Park Campground, and various other locales.

Scores of hurricanes have hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but the most destructive, as measured by storm surge levels in the Biloxi Lighthouse, occurred in 1855, 1906, 1909, 1947, 1969 ( Hurricane Camille ), and 2005 ( Hurricane Katrina )

It has no role in the maintenance of seamarks which is instead the responsibility of Trinity House, the Northern Lighthouse Board ( in Scotland ) and the Commissioners of Irish Lights ( in Northern Ireland ), nor has it any concern with customs enforcement, which is the responsibility of the UK Border Agency.

* Edward Hopper ( 1970 ), " The Lighthouse at Two Lights "

It was followed by Shadows of the North ( 1923 ), The Lighthouse by the Sea ( 1924 ), Clash of the Wolves ( 1925 ), The Night Cry ( 1926 ), A Dog of the Regiment ( 1927 ), Tracked by the Police ( 1927 ) and Tiger Rose ( 1929 ).

Her novels include Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ), To the Lighthouse ( 1927 ), and The Waves ( 1931 ).

Lamour was the heroine of a novel, Dorothy Lamour and the Haunted Lighthouse ( 1947, by Matilda Bailey ), where " the heroine has the same name and appearance as the famous actress but has no connection ... it is as though the famous actress has stepped into an alternate reality in which she is an ordinary person.

John Smeaton made an important contribution to the development of cements when he was planning the construction of the third Eddystone Lighthouse ( 1755 – 9 ) in the English Channel.

It earned the nickname " Lighthouse of the Pacific " because it was the most active volcano in Central America.

In the 20th century, Theosophy was further developed by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater, while people like Alice Bailey, Rudolf Steiner and many others, became the source for a whole range of post-theosophical movements such as The Summit Lighthouse.

St. Anthony's Lighthouse at St. Anthony's Head near Falmouth, Cornwall was featured in the title sequence of the children's live action puppet television program series Fraggle Rock created by Jim Henson.

This is the upper portion of John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse, which was originally built on the Eddystone Rocks ( 22. 5 km south ) in 1759.

The statue was administered by the United States Lighthouse Board until 1901 and then by the Department of War ; since 1933 it has been maintained by the National Park Service.

The Lizard Lighthouse was built at Lizard Point in 1752 and the RNLI operates The Lizard lifeboat station.

* May 5 – The novel To the Lighthouse was finished by Virginia Woolf.

She was also the president or patron of numerous organisations, such as the West Indies Olympic Association, the Girl Guides, Northern Ballet Theatre, and the London Lighthouse ( an AIDS charity that has since merged with the Terrence Higgins Trust ).

Because of the hazards of the cape from coral shoals to shipping, the first Cape Canaveral Lighthouse was built and completed in 1843.

The Columbus Lighthouse – Faro a Colón – was erected in Santo Domingo in honor of this occasion, with an approximate cost of 400 million Dominican pesos.

Bamburgh Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1910 to guide shipping both passing along the Northumberland coast and in the waters around the Farne Islands.

More controversial was that Balaguer spent two hundred million US Dollars on the construction of a massive ten-story Columbus Lighthouse.

Completed in 1992, the Columbus Lighthouse was designed to beam the image of a Christian cross into the night sky and to be visible for tens of miles.

The Pencarrow Head Lighthouse was the first permanent lighthouse built in New Zealand.

The light was decommissioned in 1935 when it was replaced by the Baring Head Lighthouse.

Local radio was provided by Heart North Devon, the station, originally called Lantern FM and based in Bideford in a building named " the Lighthouse ", later moved to an industrial estate in nearby Barnstaple.

It was very influential within these special markets, and spawned a number of clones on different platforms, notably Lighthouse Design's Quantrix, which has since been spun off into its own company.

Notable among these was Lighthouse Design's Quantrix, an almost direct clone aimed at the financial market.

The traditional Cumbrae Lighthouse was built in 1793 by Thomas Smith under commission from the Commissioners of the Northern Lights.

In February 1890, the Sochi Lighthouse was constructed.

The Aquarium makes an extremely brief cameo in Ghost Adventures during the Point Sur Lighthouse episode, while the crew was leaving the bay on a boat to the waters off the coast of the lighthouse