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‘Visionary Lighthouse’: Kuwait highlights past and future at Osaka Expo

Visionary Lighthouse: A blend of Kuwaiti heritage and modernity at the Osaka International Expo OSAKA, Aug 18: Under the slogan “Visionary Lighthouse”, Kuwait’s pavilion at World Expo 2025 Osaka is capturin…
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alojapan.com/1349423/visionary ‘Visionary Lighthouse’: Kuwait highlights past and future at Osaka Expo #‘Visionary #and #at #expo #future #highlights #kuwait #lighthouse #news #Osaka #OsakaNews #past #大阪 #大阪府 Visionary Lighthouse: A blend of Kuwaiti heritage and modernity at the Osaka International Expo OSAKA, Aug 18: Under the slogan “Visionary Lighthouse”, Kuwait’s pavilion at World Expo 2025 Osaka is capturing global attention by blending the nation’s rich history with

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Say not of me that weakly I declined
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit,
To play at home with paper like a child…

—Robert Louis Stevenson’s apologia for deserting the family trade of lighthouse-building & taking up the pen, instead

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“The necessity for marked characteristics in coast illumination increases with the number of lights…”

—“On a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses” – one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s lesser-known works, read before the Royal Scottish Society of Arts on 27 March 1871, & awarded the Society’s Silver Medal

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