Pharos

So far the program has had over 300 local students participate, with 35 of them becoming certified with Pharos Design 2 Software, which controls the LEDs on the bridge.

With an unwavering commitment to artistic excellence, the Pharos festival was the pioneering force in bringing chamber music to Cyprus, elevating the island to a prominent place on the global cultural stage.

The state-of-the-art Youth Hub at The Hub - a former dilapidated NHS property in Pharos Street - is complete after the major project got underway at the start of the year.

Bender said NU students print 14 million pages a year, and Pharos was not equipped to handle that amount of printing.

Agron extended his rule over other neighbouring tribes as well. citation He raided parts of Epirus, Epidamnus, and the islands of Corcyra and Pharos.

Alexandria and Pharos were later connected by a mole citation spanning more than three-quarters of a mile, which was called the Heptastadion ("seven stadia"—a stadium was a Greek unit of length measuring approximately 180 m).

A temple of Hephaestus also stood on Pharos at the head of the mole.

Haas 1997, p. 144. The Pharos's masonry blocks were interlocked, sealed together using molten lead, to withstand the pounding of the waves.

In 332 BC Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria on an isthmus opposite to Pharos.

In Roman times Messina, then known as Messana, had an important pharos (lighthouse).

It dates to the reign of Ptolemy II (285–246 BC), and is therefore likely to have been built at about the same time as the Alexandria Pharos.

Pharos in culture The lighthouse remains a civic symbol of the city of Alexandria and of the Alexandria Governorate with which the city is more or less coterminous.

Rubin, B: Istanbul Intrigues, page 168. Pharos Books, 1992.