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A moon you pay taxes for, that only works on one street.
means A lamp mounted on a pole along a road or street, switched on automatically to light the way after dark.
from Straightforward compound of 'street' (from Old English stræt, itself borrowed from Latin strata, 'paved road') and 'light.' The thing itself has a real history worth noting: before electricity, cities lit streets with oil lamps and then gas lamps tended by lamplighters, and the shift to electric arc and incandescent lighting in the late 1800s is what gave us the fixed, glowing streetlight we mean today.
- sodium glow
- old bulbs turned orange from sodium vapor, not rust
- moths betrayed
- they navigate by moonlight, cities gave them liars
- dark sky cost
- wasted upward light erases stars from city skies
- timing trick
- many use photocells, not clocks, to sense dusk