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Show Qretke Pioneer In Lighting. To the Greeks Is fnlrly duo the honor hon-or of being tho first people to bring tho llghtod lamp Into tho world. While Athenacus takes the view that thn lnmp wns not confined to Oreocc, It Is certain that It had been brought Into general domestic uso In Alliens as early ns the fourth century B. O., while from tho references to lump festivals mndo by Herodotus In tho second vol-who vol-who of the narratives wo may nssume thnt It had a long nnterlor period Illumined Il-lumined temples nnd other places whuro perpetual light was displayed as a trlliuto to tho gods. |