They used this, yet it burned for eight days ( the time it took to have new oil pressed and made ready ).

" So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David.

After recovering at home, Capra then moved out and spent the next few years living in flophouses in San Francisco and hopping freight trains, wandering around the Western U. S. To support himself, he took odd jobs working on farms, as a movie extra, playing poker, or selling local oil well stocks.

After an oil drilling operation in 1903 in Dexter, Kansas, produced a gas geyser that would not burn, Kansas state geologist Erasmus Haworth collected samples of the escaping gas and took them back to the University of Kansas at Lawrence where, with the help of chemists Hamilton Cady and David McFarland, he discovered that the gas consisted of, by volume, 72 % nitrogen, 15 % methane ( a combustible percentage only with sufficient oxygen ), 1 % hydrogen, and 12 % an unidentifiable gas.

Miraculously, the oil burned for eight days-which was the length of time it took to press, prepare and consecrate new oil.

In 1823 Audubon took lessons in oil painting technique from John Steen, a teacher of American landscape, and history painter Thomas Cole.

Young took out a patent on his process and the resulting products in 1850, and built the first truly commercial oil-works in the world at Bathgate in 1851, using oil extracted from locally mined torbanite, shale, and bituminous coal.

In 2007, Italian investigators reported that 75 % of the patients in their study who took peppermint oil capsules for four weeks had a major reduction in irritable bowel syndrome ( IBS ) symptoms, compared with just 38 % of those who took a placebo.

The first oil survey took place in 1926 under the direction of a geologist of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, George Martin Lees, but no oil was found.

Then, with the dramatic decrease of oil prices that took place in the second half of 2008 plus the manifest bursting of the real estate bubble, concerns quickly shifted over to the risk of deflation, as Spain recorded in January 2009 its lowest inflation rate in 40 years, followed shortly afterwards, in March 2009 by a negative inflation rate for the first time since the gathering of these statistics started.

Soilih did expropriate the facilities of a foreign oil company, but only after the government of Madagascar took over the company's plants in that country.

The Irish government took over ownership of the terminal in 1986 and held its strategic oil reserve there.

: Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.

For a short time, he took a job driving a truck for an oil company.

He later took part in the Oil-for-food programme for Iraq, buying 1, 000, 000 oil barrels ( 160, 000 m3 ).

Some figures appear to be detailed transcriptions and tracings from the photographs by some device like a magic lantern, which Eakins took pains to cover up with oil paint.

Finally striking oil it was clear Taft understood drilling, However, the art of capping a well was something no one in the area had any understanding, as a result the Gusher Lake was formed during the months it took for proper materials and an instructor from Texas to travel out to Taft.

To further preserve her skin tone, she took both a cold shower every morning ( which in later years aggravated her arthritis ) and an olive oil bath in the evening.

Nelson had conceived the idea for his environmental teach-in following a trip he took to Santa Barbara right after the horrific oil spill off the coast in 1969.

After two years without professional employment, he took a position as a geologist with the United Gas Company, for which he studied oil reserves.

" He took on the enormous project as the sole financier, on a 27-year lease ( with the option for three 21-year renewals for a total of 87 years ) for the site from Columbia ; negotiating a line of credit with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and covering ongoing expenses through the sale of oil company stock.

" His mother was a gifted embroiderer and took up painting at the age of 75.

In the 1770s his eyesight weakened and he took to painting in pastels, a medium in which he executed portraits of his wife and himself ( see Self-portrait at top right ).

He took up painting, and produced a number of post-modernist pieces.

Geometrical elements took on increasing importance in both his teaching and painting — particularly the circle, half-circle, the angle, straight lines and curves.

The roots of ukiyo-e can be traced to the urbanization that took place in the late 16th century that led to the development of a class of merchants and artisans who began writing stories or novels, and painting pictures, compiled in ehon ( 絵本, picture books, books with stories and picture illustrations ), such as the 1608 edition of Tales of Ise by Hon ' ami Kōetsu.

Though most of his sons became portrait painters, some of them took up still life painting or architectural studies and landscapes.

However the painting was not finished until six years after his death, in 1432, so the degree to which the surviving altarpiece reflects his work, rather than that of Jan who took it over, remains much discussed.

Von Kulmbach then apprenticed with Albrecht Dürer and after Dürer retired from painting altarpieces in 1510 Kulmbach took over most of his commissions.

Seurat took to heart the color theorists ' notion of a scientific approach to painting.

It took Seurat two years to complete this painting, much of which he spent in the park sketching in preparation for the work ( there are about 60 studies ).

To realize his true vision, Barker and his son, Henry Aston Barker, took on the task of painting a scene of the Albion Mills.

This restoration took 21 years and on May 28, 1999 the painting was put back on display, although intending visitors are required to book ahead and can only stay for 15 minutes.

To relieve the situation, he took to painting and selling copies he made at the Louvre and finally moved to cheaper quarters.

Educated in Trinity College Dublin and a member of the University Philosophical Society John Butler Yeats began his career as a lawyer and devilled briefly with Isaac Butt before he took up painting in 1867 and studied at Heatherley's Art School.

The restorers, by assuming that the artist took a universal approach to the painting, took a universal approach to the restoration.

In January 2007 the University sold Thomas Eakins ' painting The Gross Clinic, which depicts a surgery that took place at the school, for $ 68 million, to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

In the early 1940s he moved to the south of France, where his work took a surprising turn: he produced a series of paintings based on the nude glamour photos in French " girlie " magazines like Paris Sex-Appeal, in a garish style which appears to subvert traditional, academic nude painting.

It took well over a year to complete the painting.

In 1995, Summer and her family moved from Sherman Oaks, California to Nashville, Tennessee, where she took time out from show business to focus on painting, a hobby she began back in the 1980s.

Garfield took morning classes and began volunteering time at the Lab after hours, auditing rehearsals, building and painting scenery, and doing crew work.

Harpo also took an interest in painting, and a few of his works can be seen in his autobiography.

Meanwhile, Owen Merton was off traveling and painting and attending an exhibition of his work in London, but in the summer of 1928 he took Merton out of the Lycée Ingres, informing him that they were headed together to England.