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  2. Elizabeth Whitney Williams - Wikipedia

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    During a stormy night in 1872, Van Riper rowed out to help rescue a sinking ship but never returned. The duty fell on Williams to keep the light burning in the lighthouse during the three-day storm and she was left "weak from sorrow."

  3. A Stormy Night - Wikipedia

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    A Stormy Night (Romanian: O noapte furtunoasă, originally O noapte furtunoasă sau Numĕrul 9) is an 1878 comedy play by Ion Luca Caragiale, and widely seen as a major accomplishment in modern Romanian humor. It was Caragiale's debut as a dramatist, at age 26, after a period of writing for various newspapers—the same age and profession as ...

  4. It was a dark and stormy night - Wikipedia

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    A dark and stormy night in Glacier National Park, Montana "It was a dark and stormy night" is an often-mocked and parodied phrase considered to represent "the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing", [1] also known as purple prose.

  5. Burnham-on-Sea Round Tower - Wikipedia

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    Light; Deactivated: 1832: The Round Tower was a lighthouse in Burnham-on-Sea, ... on a stormy night in around 1750 a fisherman's wife placed a candle in the window of ...

  6. Watch Stevie Nicks on “Saturday Night Live ”nearly 41 years ...

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    Watch Nicks perform "The Lighthouse" and "Edge of Seventeen" on this week's SNL above. Saturday Night Live, now in its 50th season, airs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC and Peacock.

  7. The Lighthouse (2019 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Lighthouse is a 2019 film directed and produced by Robert Eggers, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his brother Max Eggers.It stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as nineteenth-century lighthouse keepers in turmoil after being marooned at a remote New England outpost by a wild storm.

  8. A cold Monday in DC? Here's Donald Trump's Inauguration Day ...

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    A long and stormy relationship. ... Light rain was reported at the start of the parade, with temperatures in the mild 40s. ... Eight inches of snow fell the night before John F. Kennedy was sworn in.

  9. Sailors' superstitions - Wikipedia

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    If the morning skies are red, it is because clear skies over the horizon to the east permit the sun to light the undersides of moisture-bearing clouds. Conversely, to see red clouds in the evening, sunlight must have a clear path from the west, so therefore the prevailing westerly wind must be bringing clear skies.