Candles were introduced by tie Phoenicians about 1000 years B.C, after which, they became the regular indoor illuminant. About 400 B.C. candles in all the chief countries of Europe were displaced by oil lamps of clay' and bronze, and they did not return to common use for a thousand years. When the German airship Graf Zeppelin returned to Fricdriehshavcn recently it completed its one hundredth of the Atlantic.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 274, 20 November 1935, Page 13
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