# The Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers ( wax candle makers )

# The Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers ( tallow candle makers )

As is the case with most other Livery Companies, the Wax Chandlers are no longer a trade association of wax candle makers, instead existing as a charitable institution: they are Patrons of the National Honey Show and the British Beekeeping Association.

The area around Cannon Street was the place of residence of the candle makers and in the Middle Ages the street was known as Candelwrichstrete.

Other businesses include a motor repair garage, builders, organic vegetable growers, a candle makers and a small embroidery factory.

" The story is largely apocryphal: according to another account, Newton simply left a window open when he went to church, and the candle was knocked over by a gust of wind.

He went on to set up a church candle manufacturing firm with two brothers, Anthony and Vincent Lalor, and took on the role of travelling salesman.

In the end the launch went ahead the following night, hosted by Denis Tuohy holding a candle.

Then, he burned a candle in the remaining air until it went out.

He went to Paris the same year where he built an industrial sample of the " electric candle " ( French patent № 112024, 1876 ).

Although the candle auction went out of favor in the 18th century, a few candle auctions are still held today as a form of tradition.

Mayow argued that the same particles are consumed in respiration, because he found that when a small animal and a lighted candle were placed in a closed vessel full of air the candle first went out and soon afterwards the animal died.

Triumph decided his life might have meaning and went back to talk to J ' Onn, but the Ray and Gypsy unwittingly lit his candle for a memorial-Triumph gained his lost decade after all but found the League were the same and Gypsy was still alive even without his presence.

The blow caused Jeffrey, who was holding a candle to fall, and the barn went up in flames.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Ludie had a cigar box full of marbles and shooters, and a Roman candle from last Fourth of July.

These were typically based on the brightness of the flame from a " standard candle " of defined composition, or the brightness of an incandescent filament of specific design.

In esse ( essence ) is more akin to the light from a candle or the liquid in a vessel.

A writer in " Time's Telescope " ( 1822 ) states that in Yorkshire at eight o ' clock on Christmas Eve the bells greet " Old Father Christmas " with a merry peal, the children parade the streets with drums, trumpets, bells, ( or in their absence, with the poker and shovel, taken from their humble cottage fire ), the yule candle is lighted, and ; " High on the cheerful fire.

He had two large alabaster urns transported from Pergamon and placed on two sides of the nave in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and a large wax candle dressed in tin which was donated by him to the Rila monastery in Bulgaria is on display in the monastery museum.

" ` Abdu ' l-Bahá also wrote that " her reality is ever shining from the horizon of Christ ," " her face is shining and beaming forth on the horizon of the universe forevermore " and that " her candle is, in the assemblage of the world, lighted till eternity.

Urban was shut up in Nocera, from the walls of which he daily fulminated his anathemas against his besiegers, with bell, book and candle ; a price was set on his head.

The metaphorical use of the term " snuff " to denote killing appears to be derived from a verb for the cutting short of a candle wick.

He used them to create the " radiomicrometer ", a device sensitive enough to detect the heat of a single candle from a distance of almost 2 miles.

Another Norse tradition involves the myth of Norna-Gest: when the uninvited norns showed up at his birthday celebration — thus increasing the number of guests from ten to thirteen — the norns cursed the infant by magically binding his lifespan to that of a mystic candle they presented to him.

The heat from the guinea pig's respiration melted snow surrounding the calorimeter, showing that respiratory gas exchange is a combustion, similar to a candle burning.

Various devices have been invented to hold candles, from simple tabletop candle holders, to elaborate chandeliers.

The candle can be made of paraffin ( a byproduct of petroleum refining ), microcrystalline wax, stearin ( now produced almost exclusively from palm waxes though initially manufactured from animal fats ), beeswax ( a byproduct of honey collection ), gel ( a mixture of polymer and mineral oil ), some plant waxes ( generally palm, carnauba, bayberry, or soybean wax ), tallow ( rarely used since the introduction of affordable and cheap wax alternatives ) or spermaceti ( extracted from the head of a Sperm Whale ).

The best way to avoid getting burned from splashed wax is to use a candle snuffer instead of blowing on the flame.

Glass candle holders are sometimes cracked by thermal shock from the candle flame, particularly when the candle burns down to the end.

The root form of chandelier is from the word for candle, but now usually refers to an electric fixture.

The word candle comes from Middle English candel, from Old English and from Anglo-Norman candele, both from Latin candla, from candre, to shine.

In the late 1970s it was decided that every house would use plastic 1 gallon milk jugs filled with sand and a candle to line their curbside.

While, as with any sort of folklore, the details may vary, this particular tale ( Bloody Mary ) encouraged young women to walk up a flight of stairs backwards, holding a candle and a hand mirror, in a darkened house.

Suddenly the house, already aflame due to a fallen lit candle, begins to collapse and Winthrop flees as Roderick is killed by Madeline and both she and the Usher's sole servant are consumed by the falling house.

Pablo's candle, dedicated to St. Francis, burns down the house, while Danny, who is with Mrs. Morales next door, pays no attention.

Ebenezer asks David to get a chest from the top of a tower in the house, but refuses to provide a lamp or candle.

A house hunter can produce bioluminescent light resembling candle or lantern light, at any body opening, and can imitate domestic noises such as muffled voices, clucking hens, or the tolling of a bell.

Still disbelieving all the " hocus pocus " he lights the candle and the house suddenly comes to life ; candles light in place of the glass bulbs, the floorboards shake, the cauldron lights and it culminates in the sisters reentering their front door for the first time in three centuries.

Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick ; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

This old hospital was partly renovated and extended to house a museum that holds the ' Mossman Collection ', a large collection of horsedrawn carriages and other vehicles, along with locally found artifacts, an exquisite historical garden and a craft center where ancient crafts such as basket weaving and candle making are practised and taught to members of the public.

Romano issued the invitations, bought festive decorations, arranged the catering, and-because he insisted on lighting every candle on the cake-took out extra fire insurance on the house.

This would allow the woman of the house to signal by placing a candle in the window to her husband out while he was out fishing in the Firth of Clyde.