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He need only pick up one of the two red telephone receivers at his extreme left, right next to the big red button marked alert.
In the past, it was a popular cliché with travel writers that Gibraltar still had traditional red British-style telephone boxes when there were just a few original ones in service.
* 1963 – The so-called " red telephone " is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
A non-dial telephone used as the famous Presidential red telephone to the Kremlin.
* January 17 – British Telecom announces it is going to phase out its famous red telephone boxes.
* The White House / Kremlin hotline during the Cold War, known as the red telephone, which was established on June 20, 1963, in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Corner posts are in diameter or larger, and a minimum in length may consist of treated wood or from durable on-site trees such as osage orange, black locust, red cedar, or red mulberry, also railroad ties, telephone, and power poles are salvaged to be used as corner posts ( poles and railroad ties were often treated with chemicals determined to be an environmental hazard and cannot be reused in some jurisdictions ).
The set of the Birling ’ s house represents the time zone of the play in early 1912 ; the front of the stage, featuring warped floor boards, a red telephone box and street children listening to a wireless, represented London in middle of World War II, when Priestley wrote the play ; and Goole ’ s final speech is delivered directly to the audience, with the house lights turned up so that the audience are visible, representing the present day.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, OM ( 9 November 1880 – 8 February 1960 ) was an English architect known for his work on such structures as Liverpool Cathedral, Waterloo Bridge and Battersea Power Station and designing the iconic red telephone box.
K2 red telephone box es preserved as a tourist attraction near Covent Garden, London
Giles Gilbert Scott, famous for designing Liverpool Cathedral and the K2 red telephone box designed the college's Byzantine-style chapel.
The red toy telephone is described as " perfect for the children's room and those late night calls from grandmom.
K2 red telephone boxes behind Enzo Plazzotta's bronze, " Young Dancer ", on Broad Street, Covent Garden, London
Post box incorporated into a red telephone box in Warrington, Cheshire, England.
This design was not of the same family as the familiar red telephone boxes.
The red telephone box was the result of a competition in 1924 to design a kiosk that would be acceptable to the London Metropolitan Boroughs which had hitherto resisted the Post Office's effort to erect K1 kiosks on their streets.

red and box
He must take it from `` the red box ''.
In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.
The codes in the red box -- there are several of them covering various contingencies -- are contained in a sealed X-ray-proof `` unique device ''.
The larger box in the same colour red is the " brain " to which they are connected.
He eliminates Woolton by a prolonged scheme: At the party conferences, Urquhart pressures O ' Neill into persuading his personal assistant and lover, Penny Guy, to have sex with Woolton in his suite, with the encounter recorded through a bugged ministerial red box.
EEG highlighted by red box.
A red lacquer box from the Qing Dynasty.
Stage N3 sleep ; EEG highlighted by red box.
Rapid eye movement ( sleep ) | REM sleep ; EEG highlighted by red box ; eye movements highlighted by red line.
The detector ( red box ) can be slid closer or further away from the crystal, allowing higher resolution data to be taken ( if closer ) or better discernment of the Bragg peaks ( if further away ).
At least two of the cellphone calls made by passengers indicate that all the hijackers they saw were wearing red bandannas, and indicated that one of the men, believed to be either Ahmed al-Haznawi or Ahmed al-Nami, had a box tied around his torso, and claimed there was a bomb inside.
The " service box " is formed by the short line — a solid red line running the court's width parallel to the front and back walls at a distance of 20 feet-and the service line parallels the short line and is 15 feet from the front wall.
Note the bright red " POISON " warning box on the label given the potency of the drug and potential for overdose.
This included changing the logos to the same red, white and blue rotating box logo.
For example, a box of Kellogg's cereals will be easily recognized in a supermarket's shelf from a certain distance, due to its unique typography and distinctive red coloring.
He chances upon a battered old red collar box.
* Christmas Crunch: A special edition named Christmas Crunch was first released for the 1988 holiday season and contained Cap ’ n Crunch with red and green Crunch Berries in a green box with the Cap ’ n wearing a Santa Claus hat ( originally also containing a toy or Christmas tree ornament inside the box ).
That is, the courses which have been unlocked will be marked by a red box on its respective page, while the courses that still remain locked will be blue.
After that, Klaymen can visit a demolition shack ( where he makes a statue of himself with dynamite ), a wasteland with a large red mushroom covered in yellow berries ( which cause Klaymen to burp, longer with each one ) and a green music box which causes the " Weasel ", a large, insect-like monster to burst from the wall and chase Klaymen back across the wasteland, forcing him to hide in the demolition shack.

red and kiosk
In 1935 the K6 ( kiosk number six ) was designed to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V. K6 was the first red telephone kiosk to be extensively used outside London, and many thousands were deployed in virtually every town and city, replacing most of the existing kiosks and establishing thousands of new sites.

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`` Finally, all I needed was to throw a little piece of red wood that looked like a firecracker and that dumb dog would run ki-yi-ing for his life ''.
I asked Quasimodo recently how he accomplished this, and he replied that he had painted his model `` a beautiful shade of red and then had her breathe on the canvas '', which was his typical tongue-in-cheek way of chiding me for my lack of sensitivity.
The red cells for the Rh antibody tests were used within 3 days after drawing except for the Af cells, which had been glycerolized and stored at -20-degrees-C for approximately 1 year.
Now the thing for us to do is to find ourselves a couple of those wonderful flowering currants such as the red Ribes sanguineum of our Pacific Northwest, or otherwise a good sloe tree, or perhaps some nice pussy willow in bloom, preferably one with male or staminate catkins.
But neither was the statement empirical, for goodness was not a quality like red or squeaky that could be seen or heard.
Nosebleed could be stopped by wrapping a red woolen string about the patient's neck and tying it in a knot for each year of his life.
By tradition, a red wine should be served at approximately room temperature -- if anything a little cooler -- and be aged enough for the tannin and acids to have worked out and the sediment have settled well.
Many people use wicker cradles for old red wine, lifting the bottle carefully from the bin into the cradle and eventually to the table, without disturbing the sediment.
Another school frowns on such a shortcut, and insists that after leaving the bin an old red wine should first stand on end for several days to allow the sediment to roll to the very bottom, after which the bottle may be gently eased to a tilted position on its side in the cradle.
If a red Bordeaux of a good name and year is bitter or acid, or cloying and muddy-tasting, leave it alone for a while.
A new red carpet had been laid for their coming, but I walked on it, too.
And it makes a very poor red herring for an inside job.
Reaching for an old clay pot, relic of pioneer days, he tore the envelope in pieces, dropping them into it, touching the little pyre to flame, watching it curl, the red sealing wax melting and bubbling in the feathery ash.
The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.
It is in fact a private memento, and for this reason it is never awarded to either England or Australia, but is kept permanently in the MCC Cricket Museum where it can be seen together with the specially made red and gold velvet bag and the scorecard of the 1882 match.
Algebraic numbers coloured by leading coefficient ( red signifies 1 for an algebraic integer ).
On March 30, 2010, a spokesman for the Egyptian Culture Ministry claimed it had unearthed a large red granite door in Luxor with inscriptions by User, a powerful adviser to the 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut who ruled between 1479 BC and 1458 BC, the longest of any woman.
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.
Collectors look for depth of color, possibly with red flashes if cut conventionally.
Both the Latin and the Germanic words derive from the Proto-Indo-European root el -, meaning " red " or " brown ", which is also a root for the English words " elk " and another tree: " elm ", a tree distantly related to the alders.
It is recommended by some doctors for people having low red blood cell count.
This is also the case with the words for carrot ( luo buo or lo bac ) or ( hong luo buo hong meaning red ) and onion ( cong ).

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