They were used to send military communications: beacon (fires or lanterns) during the night or smoke signals in the daytime; other methods such as raising banners, beating clappers, or firing guns were also used.
Ms. Giffords and Ms. Kennedy, who wore a slim royal blue dress, embraced as Ms. Kennedy handed her the award, a sterling silver lantern, which symbolizes a beacon of hope.
In Texas, with its large Mexican-American population, Legorreta brought his unique style to the San Antonio Central Library and the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History whose central tower, with an "urban lantern" motif, has become a landmark beacon not only for the museum but for the city itself.
Following are excerpts from a speech that Senator John McCain of Arizona delivered yesterday in Virginia Beach as provided by his campaign's Web site: We are the world's lantern of freedom and opportunity, the bright beacon of hope that our fathers fought to bequeath us and our children were born to inherit.
Inside the huge lantern at the top were five great beacons, one aiming straight up through a hole in the top and the others coming out the windows.
The Coast Guard, whether it owns the lighthouse or has divested it, is still responsible for the lanterns in the beacons.
Fire alchemists Compagnie Carabosse's Spirit, an installation inside and out of Durham Cathedral featured candles, lanterns, lighted threads, beacons and a garden filled with garlands of flame pots and other structures laced with fire.
At Old North's lantern ceremony, a fife-and-drum band plays eighteenth-century music and the church's vicar, Stephen Ayres, talks about what the lighting of the lanterns means to his church, and to the city, and to the country: they're beacons of courage.
