Why should a hotel desk lamp merely provide light when it can also contain an electrical outlet and a phone jack for your laptop so you don't have to crawl around the floor plugging stuff in?

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The glow of Mombasa fades into the night behind us as our train clatters past derelict signal boxes and a decaying station lit by the feeble light of a paraffin lamp.

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You still have a light bulb or lamp as your picture source, but that's the essence of the similarities.

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In September, 1986, after several months of sharing a cell with another hostage, Anderson was, for no apparent reason, returned to solitary confinement, this time in a six-by-six-foot cell, with no windows, and light from only a flickering fluorescent lamp in an outside corridor.

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But when you crawl into the chair and reach up to turn on the lamp, you make two discoveries: The bulb in the lamp is more suited as a night light than a reading light.

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After only a few minutes, the lights of the Lamanai Outpost faded into velvety darkness and the only light was a brilliant shaft from the halogen lamp at the front of the boat.

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And in another equally interesting use of light emitting diodes, German designer Viktor Alexander Kolbig has developed a living lamp that can be controlled by lightly touching its petals and leaves.

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Then the guide spotted a pair of bright red lights in the weeds near the riverbank: crocodile eyes reflected in the lamp light.

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At a news conference Thursday, police said Auvinen had sprayed a flammable liquid, possibly lamp oil, on the walls of the school and that he tried but failed to light it.

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