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A telegraph hill is a hill or other natural elevation that is chosen as part of an optical telegraph system.

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Telegraph Hill

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A telegraph hill is a hill or other natural elevation that is chosen as part of an optical telegraph system. Telegraph Hill may also refer to: A high...

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Telegraph hill

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A telegraph hill is a hill or other natural elevation, chosen as part of an optical telegraph system because of the relatively great distance between...

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The House on Telegraph Hill

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House on Telegraph Hill is a 1951 American film noir thriller directed by Robert Wise, starring Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, and William Lundigan...

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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is a 2003 documentary film directed, produced, and edited by Judy Irving. It chronicles the relationship between Mark...

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Optical telegraph

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electrical telegraph made it redundant.: 181–183  Many of the prominences on which the towers were built ('telegraph hills') are known as Telegraph Hill to this...

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Childs Hill

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centre of Child's Hill, the summit of London's third-highest escarpment. From 1789 to 1847 Child's Hill hosted an optical telegraph station. The area...

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Coit Tower

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known as the Coit Memorial Tower) is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, overlooking the city and...

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Funicular

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United States, the first funicular to use a two-rail layout was the Telegraph Hill Railroad in San Francisco, which was in operation from 1884 until 1886...

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Electrical telegraph

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Electrical telegraphs were point-to-point text messaging systems, primarily used from the 1840s until the late 20th century. It was the first electrical...

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Bernard Hill

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Obituaries, Telegraph (5 May 2024). "Bernard Hill, actor who shot to fame as Yosser Hughes in Boys From the Blackstuff – obituary". The Telegraph. Archived...

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Telegraphy

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systems are thus not true telegraphs. The earliest true telegraph put into widespread use was the Chappe telegraph, an optical telegraph invented by Claude Chappe...

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Aaron Peskin

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Chinatown, Telegraph Hill, North Waterfront, Financial District, Nob Hill, Union Square, Maiden Lane, Polk Gulch and part of Russian Hill. During his...

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List of hills in San Francisco

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seven of the city's 35+ hills that are most well-known among tourists include Telegraph Hill, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Rincon Hill, Twin Peaks, Mount Davidson...

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Mark Bittner

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the author of The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, the book which accompanies the film The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. Bittner spent 14 years on the streets...

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New Cross

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Lewisham and the SE14 postcode district. New Cross is near St Johns, Telegraph Hill, Nunhead, Peckham, Brockley, Deptford and Greenwich, and home to Goldsmiths...

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List of neighborhoods in San Francisco

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Heights is a neighborhood on the hill to the south of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. It is at the base of Tank Hill and neighboring Cole Valley. Balboa...

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