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6 unusual facts about candle


Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jullundhri

:Awake to keep our honour, we are going to lite the burning Candle of unbiding

Buddy Burner

Candles are usually made of paraffin wax and can be melted to put into a Buddy Burner.

Candle

One of Michael Faraday's significant works was The Chemical History of a Candle, where he gives an in-depth analysis of the evolutionary development, workings and science of candles.

Frederick Marriott

The Hermes Avitor Jr. was built in the basement of the publishing building largely by candlelight and was flown at San Jose, California's Shellmound Park racetrack near the current San Francisco International Airport.

Kiwalik River

The start of the 20th century mining town of Candle is found on its western bank at the confluence of Candle Creek.

Siberian Husky

Dogs from the Anadyr River and surrounding regions were imported into Alaska from 1908 (and for the next two decades) during the gold rush for use as sled dogs, especially in the "All-Alaska Sweepstakes," a 408-mile (657-km) distance dog sled race from Nome, to Candle, and back.


17th-century French art

There was also a strong Caravaggio school represented in the period by the amazing candle-lit paintings of Georges de La Tour.

Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart

Currently, "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" is tied with Hey Jude for third amongst longest-running No. 1 songs by British artists on the Billboard pop charts, behind "Candle in the Wind 1997"/"Something About the Way You Look Tonight" by Elton John (14 weeks, 1997-1998) and "We Found Love" by Rihanna with British artist Calvin Harris (10 weeks, 2011).

Blue of Noon

He travels with Dirty to Treves, the home-town of Karl Marx, where the two copulate in the mud on a cliff overlooking a candle-lit graveyard.

Blyth, Inc.

Subsidiaries include Candle Corporation Of America, which owns the Sterno product brand and the PartyLite direct sales business.

Bubble Ghost

These can be all controlled by the ghost, who can wander around the level freely and blow at things - such as the bubble to add speed, the candle to put out the flame, or switches to turn them on or off.

Buddha-nature

A denotation of note is the garba dence) of the Gujarati: where a spiritual circle dance is performed around a light or candle placed at the centre, bindu.

Candle tree

Senna alata of the family Fabaceae (Candelabra Bush, Empress Candle Plant, Candlestick Tree, Ringworm Tree)

Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7

Stanley Kubrick used these lenses when shooting his film "Barry Lyndon", which allowed him to shoot the scene lit only by candlelight.

Donald McGavran

The most direct influence, however, was J. Waskom Pickett, of whom McGavran was fond of saying; “I lit my candle at Pickett’s fire”.

Flicker Like a Candle

Flicker Like a Candle is the debut release by electro-industrial band Stromkern.

Gonesh

Gonesh is a North American brand of incense, candle, and fragrance products owned by Genieco, Inc. in Chicago, USA.

Good Night, Elmer

The cartoon depicts the ill-fated attempts of Elmer Fudd, in a rare leading role, to extinguish a candle by his bedside so that he can retire for the night, with the flame always surging again in spite of Elmer's best efforts.

Hitori Jenga

Bell, Book and Candle is a cover version of the track by Mark Hewerdine that was released on his album Thanksgiving, with Yaida's Japanese lyrics.

Holy Cross Shrine Mapranam

A candle made at this Church has been included in the Limca Book of Records as the largest candle in India.

La Bougie du Sapeur

The newspaper's name (literally, "The Candle of the Sapper") is derived from a comics character, the sapper Camember, created by Georges Colomb in the 1890s.

Lee Garim

Lee Garim has also translated works by Gaston Bachelard including The Flame of a Candle (Chotbul-ui mihak) and Water and Dreams (Mulgwa kkum).

Let's Go to Prison

Despite his fearsome appearance, Barry has the heart of a true romantic beating within his massive, hairy torso – he likes smooth jazz (Chuck Mangione is a favorite of his), he plies potential romantic partners with his finest toilet-made Merlot, and he has transformed his prison cell into a candle-lit, rose-bedecked passion parlor.

Luminalia

Masques were usually staged in the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace—but it was feared that the new Rubens murals on the ceiling there would be damaged by candle soot.

Moonlight cactus

The generic name is derived from Σελήνη (Selene), the Greek moon goddess, and cereus, meaning "candle" in Latin, referring to the nocturnal flowers.

Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You

"Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You" is a country song written by singer-songwriter Patricia Rose Sebert and Hugh Moffatt.

Paschal candle

The tall white candle in many ways signifies the Divine pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night that lead the Israelites in their Exodus from slavery in Egypt.

Paul Koehler

In the music video for "Smile in Your Sleep" on the Discovering the Waterfront album, Koehler played Professor Plum for the game Clue, where he is seen holding the rope in the billiard room and then later holding a candle stick in the conservatory.

Pennaach

Pennaach performances have included a traditional diya (candle) dance that highlights three classical dance styles (Bharathanatyam, Kathak and Odissi); lavni, a style which is typical to coastal fishing communities of western India; Giddha, an upbeat Punjabi folk dance; Garba, a popular Gujarati folk dance, as well as modern items such as Madonna's Om Shanti and various Hindi movie dances.

Price's Candles

Price's Candles was founded by William Wilson in 1830, and originally consisted of a candle factory at Vauxhall, London and a crushing mill upstream at Battersea, York Road.

RAF Ringway

Comedian Frank Muir, spent several years at the school in the photographic section taking slow motion film of jumps on a project intended to decrease the frequency of parachutes failing (sometimes called "Roman Candle").

Rodman Law

On February 2, 1912 Law parachuted off the top of the candle of the Statue of Liberty.

Santo Niño de Atocha

In Wizards of Waverly Place, they have a candle in their wizard lair with the Santo Niño de Atocha's image.

Snail Press Publications

In 2013, Snail Press will produce another large hardcover art book from America Martin entitled, “YES,” with selected works from 2009–2012, and a hardcover slipcase book entitled “Green Candle,” a series of essays by playwright Brian Torrey Scott.

The Chemical History of a Candle

The Chemical History of a Candle was the title of a series of six lectures on the chemistry and physics of flames given by Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution.

The Tallow Candle

Christian Graugaard, a Danish poet and professor of sexology, has analyzed the tale as a covert autoerotic tale, in which the candle symbolizes the phallus and the melting tallow the semen in an ejaculation.

A tallow candle, whose parents are a sheep and a melting pot, becomes more and more disheartened as it cannot find a purpose in life.

Trophime Bigot

Bigot has always been known from his documented altarpieces in Provence, but the English art historian Benedict Nicolson was the first to propose that he was identical with the artist called Maître à la chandelle (Candlelight Master), who was active in Rome, producing relatively small candle-lit scenes with heavy but subtle chiaroscuro in a style similar to that of Georges de La Tour.

Urethral foreign body

The Chuck Palahniuk story "Guts", from the novel Haunted, includes the story of a boy in his early teens inserting candle wax into his urethra.

Urs Fischer

In 2010, one of Fischer's waxworks, Untitled (Candle) (2001) sold at Sotheby's for $1 million; it is one out of an edition of four identical pieces.

Victor Bregeda

The image of Jesus Christ can be seen in the flames of Eucharist, while the Apostles, bowed in devotion before their teacher, can be seen in the outlines of the wax candle.

Yablochkov candle

A Yablochkov candle (sometimes electric candle) is a type of electric carbon arc lamp, invented in 1876 by Pavel Yablochkov.


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