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<Maranda (Aria Network)> !wikipedia lighthouse
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<Wikipedia> A *lighthouse* is a tower, building, or another type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
Lighthouses mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, rocks, and safe entries to harbors; they also assist in aerial navigation. Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to the expense of maintenance and has become uneconomical since the advent of cheaper and often much more effective electronic navigational systems.
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Ancient lighthouses
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Before the development of clearly defined ports, mariners were guided by fires built on hilltops. Since elevating the fire would improve the visibility, placing the fire on a platform became a practice that led to the development of the lighthouse. In antiquity, the lighthouse functioned more as an entrance marker to ports than as a warning signal for reefs and promontories, unlike m...
http://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=17725
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<Maranda> !wikipedia Sirius
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<Wikipedia> *Sirius* ( , designated *α Canis Majoris* (Latinized to *Alpha Canis Majoris* , abbreviated *Alpha CMa* , *α CMa* )) is the brightest star in the night sky. Its name is derived from the Greek word Σείριος Seirios "glowing" or "scorching". With a visual apparent magnitude of −1.46, Sirius is almost twice as bright as Canopus, the next brightest star. Sirius is a binary star consisting of a main-sequence star of spectral type A0 or A1, termed Sirius A, and a faint white dwarf companion of spectral type DA2, termed Sirius B. The distance between the two varies between 8.2 and 31.5 astronomical units as they orbit every 50 years.
Sirius appears bright because of its intrinsic luminosity and its proximity to the Solar System. At a distance of 2.64 parsecs (8.6 ly), the Sirius system is one of Earth's nearest neighbours. Sirius is gradually moving closer to the Solar System, so it will slightly increase in brightness over the next 60,000 years. After that time, its distance will begin to increase, and ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=28017
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<Maranda (Aria Network)> !giphy cat
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<Giphy> https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/v1/download/matrix.org/DTXeWRRNXFfjQiQAbkHHLAJV