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The Lookout
A lookout or look-out is a person on a ship in charge of the observation of the sea for hazards, other ships, land, etc.. Lookout may also refer to: Observers and observation *Fire lookout, a person assigned the duty to look for fire from a high place, which might also be termed a lookout. See also: **Fire lookout tower **Lookout tree *Overlook (also known as a lookout), an observation spot Places Geographic features * Lookout Summit, a mountain in Washington, U.S. *The Lookout (Springfield Township), a summit in Pennsylvania, U.S. * Cape Lookout (other) * Lookout Mountain (other) *Point Lookout (other) United States municipalities *Lookout, California *Lookout, Indiana * Lookout, Kentucky * Lookout, Pennsylvania * Lookout, West Virginia *Lookout, Wisconsin * Fort Lookout (Kansas) * Fort Lookout (Arkansas) Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''The Lookout'' (1990 film), 1990 Israeli comedy film * ''The Lookout'' (2007 film), 2007 American crime film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lookout
A lookout or look-out is a person in charge of the observation of hazards. The term originally comes from a naval background, where lookouts would watch for other ships, land, and various dangers. The term has now passed into wider parlance. Naval application Lookouts have been traditionally placed in high on masts, in crow's nests and tops. The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (1972) says in part: : Every vessel must at all times keep a proper look-out by sight (day shape or lights by eyes or visual aids), hearing (sound signal or Marine VHF radio) and all available means (e.g. Radar, ARPA, AIS, GMDSS...) in order to judge if risk of collision exists. Lookouts report anything they see and or hear. When reporting contacts, lookouts give information such as, bearing of the object, which way the object is headed, target angles and position angles and what the contact is. Lookouts should be thoroughly familiar with the various types of distress signa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Lookout (Arkansas)
Fort Lookout, also known as Redoubt A, is a defensive earthworks erected during the American Civil War on the outskirts of Camden, Arkansas. It was the northernmost of a series of five redoubts built in defense of the city by Confederate Army forces in early 1864, preparatory to the Union Army's Camden Expedition (March–May 1864). The site has been designated a National Historic Landmark as part of the Camden Expedition Sites, a collection of military sites related to the expedition. Description Fort Lookout is a rectangular earthworks located on a bluff overlooking a bend in the Ouachita River. Immediately west of the main works is an L-shaped redoubt which commands potential fording sites at the base of the bluff. Each of these sites was capable of mounting at least six guns of the period. The site is located about west of United States Route 79, off Gravel Pit Road. The main earthworks has been partially compromised by the construction of a home near its midsection. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lookout (architecture)
A lookout, lookout rafter or roof outlooker is a wooden joist that extends in cantilever out from the exterior wall (or wall plate) of a building, supporting the roof sheathing and providing a nailing surface for the fascia boards. When not exposed it serves to fasten the finish materials of the eaves The eaves are the edges of the roof which overhang the face of a wall and, normally, project beyond the side of a building. The eaves form an overhang to throw water clear of the walls and may be highly decorated as part of an architectural styl .... Notes Roofs Building engineering Structural system ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chattanooga Lookouts
The Chattanooga Lookouts are a Minor League Baseball team of the Southern League and the Double-A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds. They are located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and are named for nearby Lookout Mountain. The team plays its home games at AT&T Field which opened in 2000 and seats 6,340 fans. They previously played at Engel Stadium from 1930 through 1999, with a one-year break in Montgomery, Alabama's Cramton Bowl in 1943. History In 1906, Oliver Burnside "O.B." Andrews, owner of the Andrews Paper Box Company, took ownership of a franchise in the South Atlantic League relocating the Single-A team to Chattanooga. The team adopted the name Lookouts in 1909 after a fan contest. The following year Andrews purchased the Double A Southern Association franchise from Little Rock and relocated them to Chattanooga. The team began playing on Andrews Field in the 1100 block of East 3rd Street, which would remain the site of their home stadium for close to a hundred years. Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lookout (horse)
Lookout (1890 in Kentucky – after 1898) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that is best known for winning the 1893 Kentucky Derby. Lookout was a chestnut colt with full (up to the knee and hock joints) white stockings on three of his legs. His sire, Troubadour, was the 1886 Suburban Handicap winner, while his damsire, King Alfonso, was a successful flat-racer and sire. Kentucky Derby The nineteenth Derby was run on a sunny, clear day with a field of six horses. A crowd of 10,000 spectators looked on in one of the biggest turnouts since the race's founding in 1875. J. Cushing and J. Orth had entered two of their horses, with the other being the notoriously difficult Boundless. Lookout was ridden by Edward Kunze, and Boundless had R. Williams as his jockey. Lookout was the leader throughout the race, being continually pulled back by Kunze, and won by 5 lengths. /sup> Plutus, Boundless, and Buck McCann (son of 1884 winner Buchanan) finished second, third, and fourth. Lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Lookout (YAGR-2)
USS ''Lookout'' (YAGR/AGR-2) was a , converted from a Liberty Ship, acquired by the US Navy in 1954. She was reconfigured as a radar picket ship and assigned to radar picket duty in the North Atlantic Ocean as part of the Distant Early Warning Line. Construction ''Lookout'' (YAGR-2) was laid down on 5 April 1945, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 3139, as the Liberty Ship ''Claude Kitchin'', by J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida. She was launched 24 May 1945; sponsored by Mrs. F. D. Burge; and delivered 25 June 1945, to the United Fruit Company. Service history She was soon placed into the National Defense Reserve Fleet until 13 August 1954, when she was acquired by the US Navy. She was converted to a radar picket ship at the Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina, and commissioned ''Lookout'' (YAGR-2), 5 March 1955. After shakedown off Newport, Rhode Island, ''Lookout'' was assigned to radar picket duty in the 1st Naval District. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Lookout
Two destroyers of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Lookout''. * The first , a destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, manoeuvrable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against powerful short range attackers. They were originally developed in ..., was in service 1914–1922. * The second was in service 1940–1948. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lookout, Hms Royal Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lookout (clipper)
''Lookout'' was an 1853 clipper known for her passages from New York to San Francisco, and as an offshore and coastal trader in the lumber and coal trades. Launched at the height of the clipper boom ''Lookout'' was launched in 1853, just as the construction of clippers reached its peak. The day that ''Lookout'' loaded for her first trip to sea, 10 November 1853, there were ten other new clippers loading at the piers in New York for their maiden voyages: ''Chief of Clippers'', ''Edwin Forrest'', ''Electric'', ''David Brown'', ''David Crockett'', ''Dreadnought'', ''Golden Fleece'', ''Lightfoot'', ''Pride of America'', and ''Quickstep''. Voyages ''Lookout'' made 16 passages to San Francisco between 1854 and 1871. Her fastest was 108 days. On three voyages she met with unfavorable weather, her slowest trip being 157 days; however, her remaining 13 passages averaged 121 days, a very respectable showing. She also called at the ports of Boston, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Liverpool, Callao, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lansing Community College
Lansing Community College is a public community college with its main campus in Lansing, Michigan. Founded in 1957, the college's main campus is located on an urban, site in downtown Lansing spanning seven city blocks approximately two blocks from the state capitol. A West Campus opened in 2004 in Delta Township, southwest of Lansing. There is also an East Campus located in the Eyde Plaza in East Lansing. The school is the third largest community college in Michigan by enrollment, with a fall 2013 enrollment of 18,551, a decrease from 20,394 in 2008.Lansing Community College ''Community College Review'', communitycollegereview.com History The college was founded in 1957 by Philip Gannon who served as president between 1957 and 1989.Academics Lansing Community Coll ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lookout! Records
Lookout Records (stylized as Lookout! Records) was an independent record label, initially based in Laytonville, California and later in Berkeley, focusing on punk rock. Established in 1987, the label is best known for having released Operation Ivy’s only album, ''Energy'', and Green Day's first two albums, ''39/Smooth'' and ''Kerplunk''. Following the departure of co-founder Larry Livermore in 1997, the label departed from its "East Bay sound" and proved unable to match early success. In 2005 the label ran into financial difficulties after several high-profile artists rescinded the rights to their Lookout Records material. After a period of rapid contraction the label slowly expired, terminating operations and removing its music from online distribution channels early in 2012. History Background During the fall of 1984 Larry Livermore (née Larry Hayes), a resident of the small town of Laytonville, California of countercultural proclivities, felt the urge to opine about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
End Of The World Edition
End, END, Ending, or variation, may refer to: End *In mathematics: **End (category theory) **End (topology) **End (graph theory) ** End (group theory) (a subcase of the previous) **End (endomorphism) *In sports and games **End (gridiron football) **End, a division of play in the sports of curling, target archery and pétanque **End (dominoes), one of the halves of the face of a domino tile *In entertainment: **End (band) an American hardcore punk supergroup formed in 2017. **End key on a modern computer keyboard **End Records, a record label **"End", a song by The Cure from ''Wish'' ** Ends (song) (1998 song) song by Everlast, off the album ''Whitey Ford Sings the Blues'' *In other areas: **End, in weaving, a single thread of the warp **''Ends (short story collection)'' (1988 book) anthology of Gordon R. Dickson stories END * European Nuclear Disarmament * Endoglin, a glycoprotein * Equivalent narcotic depth, a concept used in underwater diving * Environmental noise directive * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Veirs
Laura Pauline Veirs (born October 24, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter based out of Portland, Oregon. She is known for her folk/alternative country records and live performances as well as her collaboration with Neko Case and k.d. lang on the case/lang/veirs project. Veirs has written a children's book and hosts a podcast about parenting and performing. Early life and education Veirs graduated from General William J. Palmer High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1997, Veirs graduated from Carleton College, where she was a geology major and studied Mandarin Chinese. During this time, she worked as a translator for a geological expedition in China. Career Growing up, Veirs heard folk-country, classical, and pop music at home; however, she did not "listen seriously," she says, until in her 20s. At Carleton, she joined all-girl punk band, Rair Kx! After graduation, her taste moved to older country and folk, and during her time in China she began writing lyrics. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
