Places
- Border checkpoint, a place on the land border between two states where travellers and/or goods are inspected
- Checkpoint Charlie, the best known crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War
- Security checkpoint, erected and enforced within contiguous areas under military or paramilitary control
- Random checkpoint, stopping vehicles on a public roadway looking for impaired drivers
- Weigh station, a highway checkpoint to inspect vehicular weights
- Waypoint, a reference point in physical space used for purposes of navigation
- Checkpoint (video gaming), a point in a video game at which a player may restart if their character is killed or they lose the game
- Orienteering checkpoint, a marked waypoint used in orienteering and related sports
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“We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“All of childhood’s unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
“... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to them at all times and in all places has often occasioned me as much surprise as pleasure.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)