The High and Low Lights of North Shields are decommissioned leading lights in North Shields, Tyne and Wear in the United Kingdom. Two pairs of lights survive:...
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North Shields Fish Quay, Clifford's Fort and the High and Low Lights of North Shields Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North East...
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North Shields (/ʃiːlz/ SHEELZ) is a town in the borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It is 8 miles (13 km) north-east of Newcastle upon...
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Sunderland and Gateshead. Historically within the county of Durham, South Shields is south of North Shields and Tynemouth across the River Tyne; and east of Newcastle...
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne Trinity House (redirect from Newcastle-upon-Tyne Trinity House and Port Act 1801)
(These were precursors of the High and Low Lights which still stand today at North Shields). 'Trinity House' is the name of the corporation's headquarters...
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Tynemouth (redirect from Tynemouth, North Tyneside)
west of the headland. Historically part of Northumberland until 1974, the town was a county borough which included the nearby town of North Shields. At...
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Black Middens (category Reefs of England)
within close sight of the shore. In order to mitigate such disasters, the Lights of North Shields were constructed in 1536 on the orders of Henry VIII, to...
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lenses for each colour, in the manner of a traffic light. Hoods and shields are generally provided to shade the lights from sunlight which could cause false...
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available compared to ancient wooden and bronze shields, including clear plastic shields and bulletproof shields mounted on firing platforms. Carbonless...
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Road signs in Australia (section Route shields)
used in the Northern Territory) (R3-4) Children Crossing Speed Limit when Lights Flashing (R3-5) Pedestrians may Cross Diagonally (left) (R3-5) Pedestrians...
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low landscaping, street lights, street designs that encourage pedestrian use, removing hiding and lurking places, and placing high risk targets, such as...
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Portrait photography (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
is mostly free of shadows and has a background brighter than the subject. High-key lighting typically involves use of all three lights (or more) in the...
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Emergency vehicle lighting (redirect from Tear Drop Lights)
lighting or emergency lights, is a type of vehicle lighting used to visually announce a vehicle's presence to other road users. A sub-type of emergency vehicle...
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British Columbia Highway 5 (redirect from North Thompson Highway)
River and enters a First Nations Reserve, temporarily leaving Kamloops city limits. A particularly important intersection is the signal lights at Halston...
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Overhead power line (redirect from High tension line)
wires are used in medium-voltage distribution and low-voltage connections to customer premises. A major goal of overhead power line design is to maintain...
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British Rail Class 318 (section Background and history)
Central High Level), Cathcart Circle Line, North Clyde Line, Whifflet Line, Paisley Canal Line and Inverclyde Line services. Following the withdrawal of the...
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Fluorescent lamp (redirect from Overdriven fluorescent lights)
are long, low-luminance sources compared with high intensity discharge lamps, incandescent and halogen lamps and high power LEDs. However, low luminous...
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turn signal/position lights are now LEDs and there are LED accent lights around the headlights, and there is now one horn instead of two on prior years...
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Compact fluorescent lamp (redirect from Cf lights)
more akin to that of incandescent lights. There are two types of dimmable CFL on the market: Standard dimmable CFLs, and "switch-dimmable" CFLs. The latter...
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Police car (redirect from Black and white (police vehicle))
devices, issued weaponry, and a variety of equipment, with emergency lights, a siren, and livery markings to distinguish them as such. The first police car...
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Light pollution (redirect from Effects of light pollution on human health)
out. The low cost of operating sodium lights is another feature. In 1980, for example, San Jose, California, replaced all street lamps with low pressure...
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of California Press. p. 306. ISBN 0-520-20037-3. Lawrence, William B. (1994). Painting Light and Shadow in Watercolor. Cincinnati, Ohio: North Lights...
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and are designed to reduce the possibility of operator injury or death. The FOPS shields the operator's cab from falling debris, and the ROPS shields...
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Level crossings by country (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from August 2014)
composed of red lights in a triangle. Many crossings are automatic with barriers and bells. Some crossings has high pitched mechanical bells and LED lights, which...
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Test light (section Two-contact test lights)
such as a multimeter, and often suffices for checking for the presence of voltage on a conductor. Properly designed test lights include features to protect...
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Sulfur lamp (section Quality of emitted light)
defined out-of-band emission limits for radio-frequency lights operating at 2.45 GHz, saying the record of the proceeding had become outdated and Fusion Lighting...
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Sentinelese (redirect from People of North Sentinel Island)
known as the Sentineli and the North Sentinel Islanders, are an indigenous people who inhabit North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal in the northeastern...
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Toronto (redirect from List of Toronto MPs and MPPs)
Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the fourth-most populous city in North America...
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Metal-halide lamp (section End of life behaviour)
lumens per watt, which is about twice that of mercury vapor lights and 3 to 5 times that of incandescent lights and produce an intense white light. Lamp life...
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