They love to dust, scrub, polish, wax floors, move the furniture around from place to place, take down the curtains, put up new ones and have themselves a real ball.

Contemporary makers of curved Romanian-style panpipes use wax ( commonly beeswax ) to tune new instruments.

Once they arrive, they immediately construct a new wax comb and begin to raise new worker brood.

Wax tablets were an inexpensive technique to create a first draft because once the sketch was presumably transferred to the manuscript the wax could be warmed and flattened for a new design or outline.

He had to make new wax models, one of which was chosen by the pope as the final draft.

Meanwhile it could be re-opened at a new location. During the last few years some other new wax museums are starting around the world.

There he meets a student who tells him about some of the recent discoveries made by Socrates, the head of The Thinkery, including a new unit of measurement for ascertaining the distance jumped by a flea ( a flea's foot, created from a minuscule imprint in wax ), the exact cause of the buzzing noise made by a gnat ( its arse resembles a trumpet ) and a new use for a large pair of compasses ( as a kind of fishing-hook for stealing cloaks from pegs over the gymnasium wall ).

He developed new techniques for examining, preserving, and dissecting specimens, including wax injection to make viewing blood vessels easier.

A new process to break down polyethylene, a common plastic product found in many consumer containers, is used to make wax with the correct molecular properties for conversion into a lubricant, bypassing the expensive Fischer-Tropsch process.

In 1838, he made the silver seal of the Duchy of Lancaster, claiming to have invented a new process by which the punch or die could be cast in metal directly from the original wax or clay mould, rather than having to be copied by hand engraving.

Other interests during this period included puzzles, toys ( he invented a few new ones ), and drawings of figures made from wax matches.

The very first Rand McNally map, created using a new cost-saving wax engraving method, appeared in the December 1872 edition of its Railroad Guide.

While the 12 cars that take part in the procession, like the scouts ' barge, the new barge, the angels ' barge, the miracle's barge, amongst others, are orderly positioned to receive wax figures, wooden house miniatures and other images to thank for their achievements over the year.

To comply with a State of California mandate, Santa Anita replaced its dirt racing surface with a new synthetic surface called Cushion Track, a mixture of silica sand, synthetic fibers, elastic fiber, granulated rubber and a wax coating.

If both new yellow wax and dark reused brood comb are present these should be segregated to prepare two grades of honey.

As the trade in ivory, honey, wax and rubber transformed the trade relations between Central Africa and Europe, new commercial organizations, organized as clans, emerged and gradually dissolved both the royal power in the center and even regional powers.

The modern day has brought sealing wax to a new level of use and application.

Modern times have required new styles of wax, allowing for mailing of the seal without damage or removal.

These new waxes are flexible for mailing and are referred to as glue-gun sealing wax, faux sealing wax and flexible sealing wax.

Anthropogenic biomes offer a new way forward in ecology and conservation by recognizing the irreversible coupling of human and ecological systems at global scales and moving us toward an understanding how best to live in and manage our biosphere and the anthropogenic biosphere we live in.

A number of groups have suggested that this could be the signature of new physics at the greatest observable scales ; other groups suspect systematic errors in the data.

The new spring shoots are sometimes called " candles "; they are covered in brown or whitish bud scales and point upward at first, then later turn green and spread outward.

In 1991, in order to clarify the relationships between space-time coordinates, new time scales were introduced, each with a different frame of reference.

For example a drawing showing a new road in elevation might use different horizontal and vertical scales.

It will always be a balance of probabilities, shifting as new arguments and opinions are added to the scales.

Fleeing from the new wickedness of humanity, she ascended to heaven to become the constellation Virgo ; the scales of justice she carried became the nearby constellation Libra, reflected in her symbolic association with Justitia in Latin culture.

Abandoning the traditional major and minor key relationships of classical music, Russell developed a new formulation using scales, or a series of scales, for improvisations: This approach led the way to " modal " in jazz.

Another new concept, the uncertainty principle, concluded that analyzing particles at these scales would require a statistical approach.

The introduction of firearms to Japan in 1543 soon led to a new type of cuirass being developed, solid iron plates replaced individual leather and iron scales as bullets replaced arrows and spears.

His present research focuses on new materials, particularly SiGe, germanium, and III-V compounds, to replace silicon as nanoelectronics scales further.

Based on the premise that the hand can barely stretch more than a 9th on the piano, and that all scales are fingered differently, Jankó's new keyboard had two interlocking ' manuals ' with three touch-points for each key lever.

The stolons originate at the axillary buds of the corm scales, and generally produce new corms at their tips

In 1976, two new time scales were defined to replace ET ( in the ephemerides for 1984 and afterwards ) to take account of relativity.

) After the difficulties were appreciated, in 1991 the IAU refined the official definitions of timescales by creating additional new time scales: Barycentric Coordinate Time ( TCB ) and Geocentric Coordinate Time ( TCG ).

Recently some makers have begun experimenting with different scales, giving players new melodic options.

It is said that when in spring 1934 the Mercedes-Benz team placed its new Mercedes-Benz W25 on the scrutineering scales prior to the Eifelrennen at the Nürburgring, it allegedly recorded.

Groven also composed music for hardanger fiddle, experimenting with new ways of tuning the instrument, and wrote a number of folk tune arrangements for his own organ, using blue scales and irregular intervals, not to be achieved on a regular equal-tempered piano.

Validity Scales were retained ( revised ), two new Validity Scales have been added ( Fs in 2008 and RBS in 2011 ), and there are new scales that capture somatic complaints.

The advantages with this approach include: the explainability of the results, which is an important aspect of recommendation systems ; it is easy to create and use ; new data can be added easily and incrementally ; it need not consider the content of the items being recommended ; and the mechanism scales well with co-rated items.

Secondly, as an inherent element of the scherzo, it does not customarily display new melodies or motives, but instead uses the musical scales and triads from the first movement as motivic material which render this movement's momentum and wit.

This led to an influx of people employed by the new bureaucracies, on salaries determined by national pay scales.