Idodi Secondary School, plagued with the ghosts of victims of the kerosene lamp fire, is now fitted with solar-powered lighting throughout its classrooms and dormitories.
The space: Dogs are allowed on the outdoor patio - but with fire lamps, fire pits & gardens, Mom and Dad won't complain about being outdoors.
He'd switched off his head lamp and fired between the eyes.
But at this time of year, when the northern hemisphere nights are pressing up against the window and we're filling our houses with lamps and fires and Christmas decorations to beat back the blackness, it's a different story.
Romans noticed that wine stored in amphorae that had been dried with lamps or fires between uses spoiled less often.
Stoves and lamps catch fire, maiming and killing.
Now, with new houses and expensive vacations on hold, he said, "business has picked up" as people demonstrate a new willingness to upgrade their houses in order to enjoy backyard "staycations" during the warmer months, often installing heating lamps and fire pits to extend the season.
Thus you head to Grand Avenue, maybe past Disney Hall and the lines at the new museum, past the La Marzocco espresso cart that Otium has conveniently set up near the Broad's doors, past the copper heat lamps and fire pits and cabbages and rosemary and violets in the boxes that line the restaurant's outdoor patio, and into the restaurant itself.
Early evening drinkers sit in the glow of standard lamps and log fires.
Until recently the village lived by oil lamps and wood fires, and cottage windows glowed warm in the dark.
At the other end of the technological spectrum, high-efficiency solar-powered light-emitting diode (LED) lights are used in remote areas of Nepal, replacing kerosene lamps or wood fires that emitted pollutants and posed a fire risk.
