From a single lamp to all the lighting in your entire house, you can control and adjust the color, shade and brightness.

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That's why - especially during the summer marching season - flags of all kinds sprout from lamp-posts, trees, private houses and even blocks of flats.

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Philips says its new lamp will change all of that.

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Hector (Macho) Camacho, after all, was a human lava lamp.

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How do you pair items, such as an attractive console table, pretty lamp or interesting art with all those abandoned shoes, dropped backpacks and everyday clutter?

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As that lamp is lit, we should all recommit ourselves to bring light to any place still facing darkness.

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Posters and awnings of the royal couple can be seen all over Madrid, proudly decorating shop windows and hanging from lamp posts lining the promenades.

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Because she is "creating all the time, " Conti can even find inspiration by looking at a bowl or a lamp.

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By the 17th century, the walls of the court were painted with a noisome cocktail of ox-blood, ox-gall, lamp black and a bucket of urine: soon afterwards, tennis became unfashionable and all but disappeared to be revived as a modified, open-air sport, in the wake of the invention of the lawn-mower, by Major Wingfield in the 1870s.

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