Down the beach, Ms. Doxey hefted an odd piece of debris, a long bamboo pole topped with a hook.
Dim crimson light leaks from antique chandeliers dipped in black rubber, with bulbs harvested from telephone pole tops.
At the Shalamcheh port of entry, a few miles from the fort, Iranian workers recently erected a giant pole topped with a large Iranian flag that now towers over a much smaller Iraqi flag on the other side.
Only a curmudgeonly reader would object to learning about "linkboys," candle-bearing escorts who accompanied timorous pedestrians around seventeenth-century London at night; or about "moon-men," who rode ahead of coaches or carriages holding a pole topped by a globular lantern.
Krystal writes, "Only a curmudgeonly reader would object to learning about 'linkboys,' candle-bearing escorts who accompanied timorous pedestrians around 17th-century London at night; or about 'moon-men,' who rode ahead of coaches and carriages holding a pole topped by a globular lantern".
Adults £5.50-£8.50, children £6.50, Civic Centre, Cardiff, session times and booking at cardiffswinterwonderland.com Mari Lwyd, Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys 31 December, 11pm-midnight Headed by the Mari – a long pole topped with the skull of a horse – the torch-lit procession sings and recites poems and rhymes all the way to the town square, where the party continues into the morning.
The flag pole, topped by an American eagle ornament, is believed to have been used to wound three demonstrators.
Now the Poles' top three - in order - are Westminster, Bedfordshire and Coventry.
The company expects to switch almost one-third of its customers to automated reading by the end of 2003, with data sent to pole-top units and then relayed via radio frequency to a computer center in Kansas City, Mo.
Outside, wooden poles topped with likenesses of human heads stood in clumps as commemorations of deaths and marriages.
