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La Jument. / 48.41667°N 5.13306°W / 48.41667; -5.13306. La Jument ("the mare") is a lighthouse in Brittany, Northwestern France. [1] The lighthouse is built on a rock (that is also called La Jument) about 300 metres from the coast of the island of Ushant. There is also a very different lighthouse about 3 kilometres to the North, the ...
Fastnet Lighthouse is a 54-metre-tall (177 ft) lighthouse situated on the remote Fastnet Rock in the Atlantic Ocean. It is the most southerly point of Ireland and lies 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) southwest of Cape Clear Island and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from County Cork on the Irish mainland. [1] The current lighthouse is the second to be built on ...
The Lighthouse in Economics. "The Lighthouse in Economics" is a 1974 academic paper written by British economist Ronald H. Coase, the 1991 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences . This paper challenges the traditional view in economics that lighthouses are public goods, and more specifically the prevailing consensus that the private ...
US$14.1 million (2019) Number of employees. 1,753 [1] Website. shift4 .com. Shift4 is an American payment processing company publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange and based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. [2] [3] The company, founded in 1999 by the then 16-year-old Jared Isaacman, processes payments for over 200,000 businesses in the ...
Cordouan lighthouse (French pronunciation: [kɔʁdwɑ̃]) is an active lighthouse located 7 kilometres (4.3 miles) at sea, near the mouth of the Gironde estuary in France. At a height of 67.5 metres (221 ft), [2] it is the tenth-tallest "traditional lighthouse" in the world.
1066-0038. Lighthouse Digest, a specialty magazine from FogHorn Publishing in East Machias, Maine, is about maritime history with particular attention to the preservation of lighthouses and their past. [1] Though it is geared toward enthusiasts and antiquarians in the United States, it is also quoted commonly in more academic publications, and ...
Coin designs. Quarters were issued with reverse designs commemorating national parks and sites in the order of which that park or site was deemed a national site. The quarters from three states depict parks or sites that were previously portrayed on the state quarters (Grand Canyon in Arizona, Yosemite in California, and Mount Rushmore in South Dakota).
Budget. $11 million [4] Box office. $18.3 million [5] The Lighthouse is a 2019 film directed and produced by Robert Eggers, from a screenplay he 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.