Great bulls loomed from the darkness, herds of horses cantered across the cave walls, reindeer reared their antlered heads, seeming to shift and stir in the flickering lamp-light.

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IX, in contrast, uses fibre-optic strands to guide the light from its lamp to the individual holes in its star-masks.

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This negative is illuminated from the front by an arc lamp, and the light from this lamp passes through the transparent regions of the liquid-crystal layer to the middle layer.

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Soraa, a venture capital-backed startup, decided to tackle this market first with the Tuesday launch of its first-ever LED lamp, which it says offers brighter, warmer and more focused light for showcasing any merchandise.

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Perhaps you recycle your cardboard and Coke cans, but if you're looking for a bit of inspiration from master design-recyclers check out this pendant lamp made from hundreds of soda tabs, this Cone Light made from repurposed traffic cones, and this chandelier composed almost entirely of six-pack rings.

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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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