None of Your Beeswax
The unhappy story about the effect of the disappearing bees on an American beekeeper made me wonder if this item will again be a valuable commodity:
http://www.archaeologynews.org/story.asp?ID=265487&Title=An%20unexpected%20treasure
Walking along the shore they found ... no, not ambergris ....
tinyurl.com/34lygq (same link, just smaller)
The candle was an improvement over the oil or kerosene lamp because there is no reservoir of hot, flammable liquid in a breakable container ... near an open flame. As we are once again wondering how best to light our homes with available fuel, it is good to look back at the trade in beeswax, whale oil, and fossil fuels and think about history.
(Click the links, they aren't what you'd expect ... and be glad you're not reading by bare daylight.)
-Kushana
http://www.archaeologynews.org/story.asp?ID=265487&Title=An%20unexpected%20treasure
Walking along the shore they found ... no, not ambergris ....
tinyurl.com/34lygq (same link, just smaller)
The candle was an improvement over the oil or kerosene lamp because there is no reservoir of hot, flammable liquid in a breakable container ... near an open flame. As we are once again wondering how best to light our homes with available fuel, it is good to look back at the trade in beeswax, whale oil, and fossil fuels and think about history.
(Click the links, they aren't what you'd expect ... and be glad you're not reading by bare daylight.)
-Kushana
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