Michelle and I will never forget the opportunity to introduce our daughters for the first time to the City of Lights.
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Buy some beautiful wall art or photos of the City of Lights, and hang them on your walls to remind you of all that you can accomplish solo.
The home has views of the sunset over the mountains in the west, all the way south to Long Beach and Catalina Island as well as of the city lights of downtown Los Angeles and easterly views of the sunrise over the San Gabriel Mountains.
In these photos, you can see the city lights of Minneapolis and Chicago glittering against the night sky.
From the top of a skyscraper in the center of the city at night, the lights of apartment buildings and office towers twinkle all the way to the horizon.
After 45 minutes or so, I began to find the cumulative effect of all the magnificence rather overwhelming, so it was a relief finally to be able to stroll through the palace gardens to a magical belvedere that commanded a view of the glinting lights of the city below.
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Roads were widened, six new subway lines were opened, 4, 000 extra taxis were let loose on the road, fresh paint was slathered on buildings, truckloads of flowers were put up, city lights were upgraded and the capacity of the Hongqiao International Airport was increased by 60%.
Sending her camera gliding languidly into the noonday shadows of a rotting shack, darting dangerously through heavy marshland foliage, or jaunting past city lights from the back of an open-air bus, Akerman embraces the rapturous but desperate beauty of the countryside and the chill of the metropolis.
In the evenings the city's wealthy roam the streets of Karada, in the center of the city, where the lights shine almost as bright as Times Square.
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Now fully gripped by festive fever, Quest takes centre stage in Vilnius, Lithuania -- in front of 25, 000 people -- it's time to turn on the lights of the city's Christmas tree.
As dusk falls, settle into your deckchair, grab a blanket and watch from a selection of cult classics while surrounded by the twinkling lights of a busy city.
Last week the Indiana city of Scottsburg made a bet on the future of its street lights with a little-known technology called LEPs light emitting plasma.
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Sunderland-born, Jeffries became the first boxer ever to bring an Olympic medal back to the city earlier this year - an honour which saw him handed the responsibility of switching on the city's Christmas lights.
All the more reason to move out to the Gol Bungalow veranda, for evening cocktails, with the lights of the city 2, 000 feet below.
Whether your room overlooks the mountains or the twinkling lights of the city, Mother Nature puts on a nightly show to be appreciated from your private patio.
Their operators will be based in the new hub alongside specialists from TRAFFCOM - the team in charge of the city's traffic lights and traffic cameras, who currently work from separate bases.
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Four years after 9-11, I was in an almost fatal taxi crash, sitting in the back of a taxi, as the driver purposefully careened through red lights in the middle of New York City.
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The unlikely pair met amid the neon lights of New York City's Times Square over the weekend and headed back to the squat brick home of 73-year-old Joseph Galfy Jr. on a quiet cul-de-sac in suburban Clark, N.
People think traffic lights are a guarantee of safety but the latest audit from Westminster City Council, for example, has shown that 44% of personal injury accidents occurred at traffic lights.
Little comets of white lights arcing over the city's narrow streets made Vienna feel more like Christmas than any sleigh-and-reindeer-infested lawn ever could.
The editor of a small film magazine, City Lights, had been eavesdropping on a conversation about movies she was having in a Berkeley coffee shop.
Perhaps many state pupils share Mr Brown's view that Oxbridge is stuffy and old-fashioned, and are drawn by the bright lights of the big-city universities instead.
But the overall air system's safety is built on redundancy, and taking away the controller's extra set of eyes is like removing stop signs or traffic lights from city intersections and forcing drivers to be more vigilant and cautious, says Paul Rinaldi, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.
When the sun goes down, crossing the line between the City of Light and the City of Darkness is eerie, almost post-apocalyptic: moving within minutes from the bright lights of Times Square to the narrow unlit streets of the Financial District with the looming outlines of skyscrapers towering overhead.
Last year, the U.S Army Corps of Engineers installed more than 1, 000 solar-powered street lights in Fallujah, a predominantly Sunni city in central Iraq that was the scene of a brutal battle between insurgents and U.S. soldiers in 2004.
Heavy rain dampened the celebrations in the Turkish city of Istanbul, but the main square in the Ukrainian capital Kiev was illuminated with an array of colourful lights and fireworks.
Christmas in Florence Not only is the city wonderfully deserted at this time of year, but the lights that adorn every shop window give the place an almost magical feeling.
It would allow for broadcast messages to groups of machines, such as all traffic lights in a city.
He left behind him an immense city plunged into darkness, where the only lights were the reflections of his headlamps.
Los Angeles was the first U.S. city to control its traffic lights centrally when it rewired a handful of intersections in 1984 in anticipation of a crush of Olympics traffic.
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