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English: The candle is lighted, we cannot blow out, Protestant reformers at a table, a cardinal, devil, Pope and monk trying to blow out a candle. Martin Luther sits in the centre, with Melanchthon and Hus on his right hand, Calvin and Beza on his left.
GIF animation of an Apollonian sphere packing with transparent background. Transparency in computer graphics is possible in a number of file formats. The term "transparency" is used in various ways by different people, but at its simplest there is "full transparency" i.e. something that is completely invisible. Only part of a graphic should be ...
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Beeswax candles were expensive and their use was limited to the wealthy, instead oil lamps were the more commonly used lighting devices in Roman times. Ancient Greece used torches and oil lamps, and likely adopted candle use in a later period from Rome. [9] Early record in China suggests that candle was used in the Qin dynasty before 200 BC ...
Pixel art [note 1] is a form of digital art drawn with graphical software where images are built using pixels as the only building block. [2] It is widely associated with the low-resolution graphics from 8-bit and 16-bit era computers, arcade machines and video game consoles, in addition to other limited systems such as LED displays and graphing calculators, which have a limited number of ...
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Flameless candles display flickering light, simulating real flames. As a decorative element, the design of a flameless candle is relatively versatile. The body or "housing" of the device is commonly cylindrical, containing a battery pack and an often flame-shaped LED lamp atop the candle.
The candles were placed for protection inside cases made of a wooden frame with transparent horn panels in the sides. [1] Similar methods of measuring time were used in medieval churches. [citation needed] The invention of the candle clock was attributed by the Anglo-Saxons to Alfred the Great, king of Wessex.