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  2. Outdoor candle - Wikipedia

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    A lit outdoor candle Two types of unopened packaged outdoor candle. An outdoor candle, [1] which is also known a pitch torch or a garden candle [2] (Swedish: marschall, Danish: haveblus, [3] Finnish: soihtukynttilä) is a large (usually 10 cm wide) tealight-like candle that is lit outside.

  3. Ljuskrona - Wikipedia

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    The ljuskrona is a distinctive candle holder, which is wrapped in fringed paper. Ljuskrona have historically been made out of discarded materials and then covered with cut paper. [ 1 ] The paper is usually newspaper , wrapping paper or crepe paper in various colors.

  4. Cheating in online games - Wikipedia

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    The client session is reset when the game sessions become unsynced, thereby preventing cheating. Server-side game code makes a trade-off between calculating and sending results for display on a just-in-time basis or trusting the client to calculate and display the results in appropriate sequence as a player progresses.

  5. GOG.com - Wikipedia

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    The client is designed as a storefront, software delivery, and social network client, allowing players to buy and play games from GOG.com and share them with friends. GOG Galaxy also includes an original multiplayer API , allowing developers to include the same kind of multiplayer functionality in GOG.com versions of games as on Steam.

  6. Schwibbogen - Wikipedia

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    A Schwibbogen (German pronunciation: [ʃʋɪp'boːɡən]) is a decorative candle-holder from the Ore Mountains region of Saxony, Germany. The first metal schwibbogen was made in 1740 in Johanngeorgenstadt. The early candle arches consisted of a single forged piece of black metal which could be painted. The number of candles varies with the size ...

  7. Candle - Wikipedia

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    A candle holder, 19th century. Many candle holders use a friction-tight socket to keep the candle upright. In this case, a candle that is slightly too wide will not fit in the holder, and a candle that is slightly too narrow will wobble. Candles that are too big can be trimmed to fit with a knife; candles that are too small can be fitted with ...

  8. Scandinavian design - Wikipedia

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    The Brooklyn Museum's 1954 "Design in Scandinavia" exhibition launched "Scandinavian Modern" furniture on the American market. [1]Scandinavian design is a design movement characterized by simplicity, minimalism and functionality that emerged in the early 20th century, and subsequently flourished in the 1950s throughout the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland.

  9. History of candle making - Wikipedia

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    Candle moulding machine in Indonesia circa 1920. Candle making was developed independently in a number of countries around the world. [1]Candles were primarily made from tallow and beeswax in Europe from the Roman period until the modern era, when spermaceti (from sperm whales) was used in the 18th and 19th centuries, [2] and purified animal fats and paraffin wax since the 19th century. [1]