A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location. A common example is the lighthouse, which draws attention...
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Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon (redirect from Personal locator beacon)
position-indicating radiobeacon (EPIRB) is a type of emergency locator beacon for commercial and recreational boats, a portable, battery-powered radio...
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The Beacon may refer to: The Beacon (film), a 2009 American horror film "The Beacon" (The Twilight Zone), an episode of the TV series The Beacon (novel)...
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Beacon is a city located on the Hudson River in Dutchess County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 13,769. Beacon...
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Beacon Hill is a neighbourhood located in Beacon Hill-Cyrville Ward in the east end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Beacon Hill was a part of the City of Gloucester...
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In navigation, a radio beacon or radiobeacon is a kind of beacon, a device that marks a fixed location and allows direction-finding equipment to find...
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specific location. Beacon may also refer to: Beacon (band), an American electronic music group Beacon (Two Door Cinema Club album), 2012 Beacon (Susumu Hirasawa...
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Beacon Pharmaceuticals PLC is a Bangladeshi pharmaceutical company that develops generic version of medications. Beacon manufactures more than 200 generic...
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A Belisha beacon (/bəˈliːʃə/) is a yellow-coloured globe lamp atop a tall black and white striped pole, marking pedestrian crossings of roads in the United...
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Beacon Hill is a historic neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is also the location of the Massachusetts State House. The term "Beacon...
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(the Beacon borders the Pheasey area of Great Barr) and to the local secondary school Barr Beacon School. It is historically the site of a beacon where...
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Bluetooth beacons are hardware transmitters — a class of Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) devices that broadcast their identifier to nearby portable electronic...
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A HAWK beacon (high-intensity activated crosswalk beacon) is a traffic control device used to stop road traffic and allow pedestrians to cross safely...
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The Beacon Way is a long-distance walk of around 40 kilometres (25 mi) through the West Midlands county and Staffordshire, in the Midlands of England....
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A web beacon is a technique used on web pages and email to unobtrusively (usually invisibly) allow checking that a user has accessed some content. Web...
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Letter beacons are radio transmissions of uncertain origin and unknown purpose, consisting of only a single repeating Morse code letter. They have been...
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Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks, the program...
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Beacon Hill may refer to: Beacon Hill, Ottawa, Ontario, a neighbourhood Beacon Hill Park, a park in Victoria, British Columbia Beacon Hill, Saskatchewan...
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A beacon frame is a type of management frame in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. It contains information about the network. Beacon frames are transmitted periodically;...
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Beacon Square is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pasco County, Florida, United States. The population was 7,263 at the 2000 census. Beacon Square is...
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Beacon formed part of Facebook's advertisement system that sent data from external websites to Facebook, for the purpose of allowing targeted advertisements...
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The Beacon (later renamed Haunting at the Beacon[citation needed]) is a 2009 American horror/thriller film directed and written by Michael Stokes. The...
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Beacon 23 is an American science fiction psychological thriller television series created by Zak Penn. It stars Lena Headey and Stephan James, and is a...
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Beacon Hill School may refer to: Beacon Hill Academy, formerly Beacon Hill School, is a coeducational special school with academy status in South Ockendon...
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Beacon Theatre may refer to: Beacon Theatre (New York City) Beacon Theatre (Beacon, New York) Beacon Theatre (Boston) Beacon Theatre (Hopewell, Virginia)...
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Beacon Academy (formerly Beacon Community College) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Crowborough in the English county of...
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An emergency locator beacon is a radio beacon, a portable battery powered radio transmitter, used to locate airplanes, vessels, and persons in distress...
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Beacon Mountain, locally Mount Beacon, is the highest peak of Hudson Highlands, located south of City of Beacon, New York, in the Town of Fishkill. Its...
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Beacon Hill (Chinese: 筆架山; Jyutping: bat1 gaa3 saan1) is a hill in the northern part of the Kowloon peninsula in Hong Kong. It is the 71st-highest hill...
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Mavis Beacon is a fictional character created for the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing line of computer software. Developed to be a personification of a The...
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