and bright though they all were, they could not possibly compete for her interest with Papa, whose mind -- although he never tried to dazzle or patronize lesser lights with it -- naturally eclipsed theirs and made them seem to her even younger than they were.

Kate had no idea what they were talking of, although she had seen the blue lights and strange fires burning and winking on the ridges at night, had heard horsemen on the River Road and hill trails through the nights till dawn.

There were lights glinting in the city, too, even though it was now dark enough for a few stars to become visible.

As the lights came up, Andy could see that a number of patrons were already on their way toward the exit.

Competing machines such as the Altair 8800 generally were programmed with front-mounted toggle switches and used indicator lights ( red LEDs, most commonly ) for output, and had to be extended with separate hardware to allow connection to a computer terminal or a teletypewriter machine.

At 19: 00 the identifying lights in the mizenmasts of the British fleet were lit.

Electric lights were in use by 1888.

Among the leading lights in comedy films of the next decade were Woody Allen and Mel Brooks.

The lights were like large pylons towering 50 metres over the ground and were similar in appearance to those at the WACA.

Except in times of danger, the lights were to be placed outside one's door, on the opposite side of the Mezuza, or in the window closest to the street.

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 racks were themselves packaged into a single large mainframe case, with a hexagonal control panel containing switches and lights mounted to lay at table-top height at one end of the mainframe.

This early ninth century military leader is commemorated in this way because he is said to have ordered huge illuminated lanterns to be placed at the top of hills ; and when the curious Emishi approached these bright lights to investigate, they were captured and subdued by Tamuramaro's men.

The main sources used were modified arc lights made for street lighting.

Large mercury vapour tube lights ( Cooper-Hewitts ) were also used in racks placed in the same way.

Two days after her death, the lights of the Empire State Building were extinguished for 15 minutes in her memory.

* In 1947, arc lights were installed at Fenway Park.

The Boston Red Sox were the third-to-last team out of 16 major league teams to have lights in their home park.

Fluorescent lights were first available to the public at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Sound, lights, and visual setups were brought along to every gig of the tour.

Before modern strobe lights, lenses were used to concentrate the light from a continuous source.

In more modern lighthouses, electric lights and motor drives were used, generally powered by diesel electric generators.

Winnipeg's Perimeter Highway ( the southern half of which, Highway 100, is officially part of the Trans-Canada ) has a mix of traffic lights and interchanges, and gives highway drivers a way of bypassing the city completely ; however, the Trans-Canada system also has an alignment which passes through the urban core of Winnipeg, incorporating Portage Avenue, Main Street / St.

At its " typical Hollywood opening " it was said, " bright lights will flood the sky, bands will blare, and the theatre will be officially presented to Mayor Fred Borgwordt of the town of Homewood.

Exceptionally, it is not an offence for pedestrians to cross against a red light in the United Kingdom, where pedestrian lights officially give advice, rather than an instruction, although UK pedestrians do commit an offence if they cross a road against the signals of a police officer controlling traffic.

This has led to the phrase " bringing up the markers " to describe the last car on a train ( these lights were officially what made a train a " train ").

She was not officially qualified, but nurses were badly needed ; she was accepted and assigned to " Dark Ships ": transports that ran with all lights off between Australia and England carrying war goods and soldiers one way, and wounded soldiers and trade goods on the return voyage.

The Club later installed floodlights at Albert Park and Celtic were the visitors when the lights were officially unveiled in November 1981 ; included in the visiting team that night were players such as Charlie Nicholas and David Moyes.

When we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:

Mark stopped the car and switched off the lights and they sat looking at the water, which, there being no moon out, at first could be distinguished from the sky only by an absence of stars.

( Note: Because of light leakage from one ultraviolet source to another, the lights are switched by a commutator-like assembly rotated by a synchronous motor.

When I switched on the lights for her to come and get the check, I had the exact change plus a dollar tip.

* Timelapse video of Acropolis during Earth Hour 2010 Timelapse showing how the Acropolis of Athens switched off & on the lights during Earth Hour 2010

A solitary policeman sat in a small cabin at the top of the tower and switched the lights around manually, until they were eventually automated in 1926.

In 1922 a lecture in Munich was disrupted when stink bombs were let off and the lights switched out.

The lights have caused confusion for thousands of migrating birds, trapping them in the beams, and requiring that the lights be switched off for 20 minute periods to allow the birds to escape.

This led to the rumor that whenever the computer was switched on, lights in Philadelphia dimmed.

These were donated to a parish church and later converted to gas but then returned to Brasenose when the church switched to electric lights.

Upon activation the normal traffic light cycle is suspended and replaced by the " preemption sequence ": the traffic lights to all approaches to the intersection are switched to " red " with the exception of the light for the vehicle that has triggered the preemption sequence.

A violent confrontation in the control room results in the death of all four terrorists, and the lights are switched off in the nick of time.

In 2005, Councillor Ann Reid of York arranged for all nine sets of traffic lights on her daughter Hannah's route through York to be switched to green for the five-car convoy.

The early part of the century saw electricity arrive initially for street lighting ; the city converted from gas street lighting to electric lighting on 22 December 1924, when 370 electric lights at a cost of ₤ 40, 000 were switched on.

Every December the town comes together for Liskeard Lights Up, Street entertainment and fun activities throughout the day and a lantern parade around the streets before the Christmas lights are switched on.

The lights must be dimmed to half-strength at 9. 50 pm and be switched off by 11 pm.

Pakistan also shut down their air traffic services, thus effectively blackening the whole of Pakistan airspace for the Indian Airlines flight and switched off all lights at Lahore Airport.

On understanding that the only other option for the aircraft was to crash land, Lahore Airport switched on its lights and allowed the aircraft to land.

As a last-ditch attempt to stop the landing, the runway lights were switched off, but the pilot still managed to land the damaged aircraft safely.

This fish loses its brilliant blue and red colors when lights are switched off in the dark, but regains it when lights are switched on again.

However, Kenneth MacLeod had to present Westward Diary in what looked to viewers like almost total darkness, as the union only permitted the house lights to be switched on in the studio.