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Some places are best seen after dark. Check out our round-the-globe list of cities where nighttime is when they really shine. Some places are best seen after dark. Check out our round-the-globe ...
Night photography (also called nighttime photography) refers to the activity of capturing images outdoors at night, between dusk and dawn. Night photographers generally have a choice between using artificial lighting and using a long exposure , exposing the shot for seconds, minutes, or even hours in order to give photosensitive film or an ...
Skyline of Hong Kong at night, which has over 500 skyscrapers. The list of cities with most skyscrapers ranks cities around the world by their number of skyscrapers.A skyscraper is defined as a continuously habitable high-rise building that has over 40 floors [1] and is taller than approximately 150 m (492 ft). [2]
Café Terrace at Night. Café Terrace at Night is an 1888 oil painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It is also known as The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, and, when first exhibited in 1891, was entitled Coffeehouse, in the evening ( Café, le soir ). Van Gogh painted Café Terrace at Night in Arles, France, in mid-September 1888.
Moonlight tower. A moonlight tower or moontower is a lighting structure designed to illuminate areas of a town or city at night. Only the collection of towers in Austin, Texas, have been termed historically "moonlight towers," a term that dates to the mid-20th century. The light from the towers was compared to moonlight, after they were ...
The Tribute in Light is an art installation created in remembrance of the September 11 attacks. [ 1] It consists of 88 vertical searchlights arranged in two columns of light to represent the Twin Towers. It stands six blocks south of the World Trade Center on top of the Battery Parking Garage [ 2] in New York City.
Gas lamps gradually started replacing oil street lamps in the United States, beginning in the first quarter of the 19th century. [ 3] The first street in the world to be illuminated by gaslight was Pall Mall in London, starting in 1807. [ 1][ 5] The first US city to use gas street lights was Baltimore, starting in 1817. [ 4]
The City That Never Sleeps is a ubiquitously used nickname and advertising slogan for New York City. Photographer Jacob Riis describes The Bowery as never sleeping in his 1898 book Out of Mulberry Street: Stories of Tenement Life in New York City. A newspaper article in Indiana's Fort Wayne Daily (6 September 1912) first nicknamed New York City ...