Sentences with phrase «fire beacons»

Babylonian kings stationed guards at regular points along the roads, and by about 650 BC the guard stations were equipped with fire beacons they could ignite as alarms to alert adjacent stations.

By about 350 BC, the Greeks had devised a code for signalling with fire beacons.

Once in Boston, when a comet hung over the city, Mather fairly paralyzed his congregation, crying, «The Lord hath fired his beacon in the heavens among the stars of God there; the fearful sight is not yet out of sight.

Not exact matches

That, like all good nature - writing stories, we would search and search and then search some more, and then, just as we were packing up, we'd see one: glowing like a beacon, a single revolutionary invertebrate in a world lit by artificial coal - fired lights.

As with the original film, Greek composer Vangelis is the real star here — his keening keyboard themes have been acid - washed by today's re-scorers, Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer, yet the Chariots of Fire wizard's aural signature echoes through these urban canyons like a welcoming beacon.

Out of timeworn habit she raised her head again to the east, and for a moment imagined that she saw the beacon fires burning in Amun's Great Temple far across the river.

The Amazon Kindle Fire HD is a beacon compared to these two tablets, measuring a bright 436 lux.

The smell of smoke or fire glow is unlikely to have been used as a direct beacon for navigation, as there was a time lag between the occurrence of fire and expeditions of five days or more, over which time such cues would have lapsed.

Wherever the beacon is set off, the Millenium Falcon will swoop in and attack, firing shots in all directions to take out any pigs that may need killing.

Endurance mode tasks Lara with staying one step ahead of Trinity during hunts for artifacts, although she must maintain her hunger throughout the expedition by eating berries or meat and warmth from making a campsite fire until the required artifacts have been collected in which case Lara needs to light a beacon to call in a helicopter to escape the area.

Super moves are stunning action packed cinematic set pieces including Batman calling in a beacon to collect the grounded opponent that is winched into the clouds before Batman's aerial vehicle hits the opponent, dislodges, then locks on to fire a dual machine gun and a missile followed by crashing back down to the arena, while Poison Ivy surrounds her opposing fighter with carnivorous plants that wrap themselves around her opponents» body before eating then spitting the character out.

In a summer where the southwest is getting hammered by heat, fire and drought, peppered with flooding, these legal victories come as a welcome beacon to courts around the world.

«You can see the vehicle approaches the beacon, the beacon fires and the vehicle begins to make the turn,» A Central Florida Expressway Authority staffer explains during a press conference.