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| | LANTERN - LoveToKnow Article on LANTERN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | The early lantern had sides of horn, talc, bladder or oiled paper, and the primitive shape remains in the common square stable lantern with straight glass sides, to carry a candle. |
 | | The collapsible paper lanterns of China and Japan, usually known as Chinese lanterns, are globular or cylindrical in shape, and the paper is pleated and when not in use folds flat. |
 | | The magic or optical lantern is an instrument for projecting on a white wall or screen largely magnified representations of transparent pictures painted or photographed on glass, or of objectscrystals, animals, andc.carried on glass slides or in glass vessels. |
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