<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4137245d-aecc-4523-a206-3652905d48e8/C2E19A57-E7B8-4EFC-8FC0-80F4E105CDF4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle"><P>Before the domestication of <A title="Electricity" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity">electricity</A>, the candle was a common source of lighting, before, and later in addition to, the <A title="Oil lamp" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_lamp">oil lamp</A>. Due to local availability and the cost of resources, for several centuries up to the <A title="19th century" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century">19th century</A> the candle was more common in northern <A title="Europe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe">Europe</A>, and <A title="Olive oil" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_oil">olive oil</A> lamps more common in southern Europe and around the <A title="Mediterranean Sea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea">Mediterranean Sea</A>. Candle makers were known as <I>chandlers</I>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle"><P>Today, the candle is usually used for their aesthetic value, particularly to set a soft, warm, or romantic ambience, and for emergency lighting during electrical <A title="Power failure" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_failure">power failures</A>.The <A title="Scent" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scent">Scented</A> candle is common in <A title="Aromatherapy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromatherapy">aromatherapy</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C2E19A57-E7B8-4EFC-8FC0-80F4E105CDF4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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