• 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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  • 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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    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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  • Beacon Pharmaceuticals PLC is a Bangladeshi pharmaceutical company that develops generic version of medications. Beacon manufactures more than 200 generic...
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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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  • 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 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Flathead Beacon is an American weekly newspaper serving northwest Montana, owned by the American television personality Maury Povich. The Flathead Beacon was...
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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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  • 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 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Carelon Behavioral Health, formerly known as Beacon Health Options, is a behavioral health company based in Boston, Massachusetts. On Jun. 6, 2019, Anthem...
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    The Beacon Theatre is an entertainment venue at 2124 Broadway, adjacent to the Hotel Beacon, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Opened...
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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 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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    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 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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  • The Akron Beacon Journal is a morning newspaper in Akron, Ohio, United States. Owned by Gannett, it is the sole daily newspaper in Akron and is distributed...
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    An aerodrome beacon, airport beacon, rotating beacon or aeronautical beacon is a beacon installed at an airport or aerodrome to indicate its location to...
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  • Beacon Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Beacon) is a privately owned full-service teaching hospital located in the Sandyford suburb of Dublin, Ireland. The hospital...
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