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lamp

[lamp] / læmp /


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Smaller versions are also produced by the city's craftsmen and adorn lamp posts, office buildings and homes across the archipelago nation of 116 million which is home to Asia's largest Catholic population.

From Barron's

One version of a well-known story about Diogenes tells of how the Cynic went through the streets of Athens holding a lamp, searching for an honest person.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the living room, mother of pearl lamps and wood-carved side tables serve as a reminder of their old house.

From Los Angeles Times

Being at home is a ritual, as religious, in its way, as remembering the Maccabees’ inextinguishable lamp or the exodus from Egypt.

From The Wall Street Journal

The stone containing the azurite residue was initially classified as an oil lamp.

From Science Daily