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2. Leading lights - Wikipedia

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   Leading lights, also known as range lights in the United States, are a pair of light beacons used in navigation [2] to indicate a safe passage for vessels entering a shallow or dangerous channel; they may also be used for position fixing. At night, the lights are a form of leading line that can be used for safe navigation. The beacons consist ...

3. List of lighthouses in Mexico - Wikipedia

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   These are named landfall lights, or those with a range of over fifteen nautical miles. [1] [2] Lighthouses. Name Image Location coordinates Year built

4. Lowe's - Wikipedia

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   The first Lowe's store, Mr. L.S. Lowe's North Wilkesboro Hardware, opened in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in 1921 by Lucius Smith Lowe. [8] After Lowe died in 1940, the business was inherited by his daughter, Ruth Buchan, who sold the company to her brother, James Lowe, for $4,200, [ 9 ] that same year.

5. Deck prism - Wikipedia

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   Before electricity, light below a vessel's deck was provided by candles, oil and kerosene lamps—all dangerous aboard a wooden ship. The deck prism laid flush into the deck, the glass prism refracted and dispersed natural light into the space below from a small deck opening without weakening the planks or becoming a fire hazard .

6. Fishing light attractor - Wikipedia

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   In this video, dozens of 15-18 inch speckled trout are attracted to a 1000 W green light mounted on a pier. A fishing light attractor is a fishing aid that uses lights attached to a structure above water or suspended underwater to attract fish and members of their food chain.

7. Weathering steel - Wikipedia

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   The original A242 alloy has a yield strength of 50 kilopounds per square inch (340 MPa) and ultimate tensile strength of 70 ksi (480 MPa) for light-medium rolled shapes and plates up to 0.75 inches (19 mm) thick. It has yield strength of 46 ksi (320 MPa) and ultimate strength of 67 ksi (460 MPa) for medium weight rolled shapes and plates from 0 ...