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Candles have been around for thousands of years to help illuminate the dark. Anciently they were most often made of tallow or beeswax or some natural fat byproduct. Today candles are usually made with paraffin or resin and last much longer than the ancient candles did.
While candles can be scented and help create a certain ambiance they do have the drawback of having a flame on the top. Candles with flames are a leading source of residential fires in the U.S., homes and churches have burned down due to these candle flames. So today there are flameless candles that usually use a Light Emitting Diode or LED as the light source. LED’s are far safer than an open flame or even an incandescent bulb as they generate no heat, so even touching the LED is safe. Because of there being safer many churches and schools are encouraging people to use them to lessen the chance of starting a fire.
Now there are several different types Flameless Hand Held Candles, some are sealed and meant to be thrown away once the battery dies, even though the LED bulb is still good. Better quality Flameless Hand Held Candles allow the batteries to be replaced, extending the use of the candle. Some Flameless Hand Held Candles have a twist cap on the bottom where you twist the cap and the batteries fall out. Better quality Flameless Hand Held Candles have the batteries in a cradle that fits inside, so you can pull the cradle out of the cover casing and easily replace the batteries. With proper care your Flameless Hand Held Candles can last a long time. These Quality LED Choir Candles are perfect for churches, for choirs, for schools having graduations, as even small children can hold them without getting burned!
The term nutcracker is used to describe a device that is used to crack nuts. The earliest use of the term nutcracker in English seems to date around 1481, eleven years before Columbus sailed for the new world.
Since the 1400’s Nutcrackers have taken on the form of kings, soldiers and knights carved out of wood. Originally these Nutcrackers actually worked to crack open nuts but today they are merely ornamental, a favorite decoration at Christmas time.
It appears that the carving of wooden Nutcrackers started as a cottage industry in rural areas of Germany that were heavily wooded. For many of those craftsmen it was a way to supplement their incomes. Today it has grown out of the cottage and into a full industry. Many people travel to Germany just to watch a master hand carve a nutcracker and then look to buy and collect them. While many of the more famous hand carved Nutcrackers like Steinbach come from Germany, China mass produces many of the replicas at a fraction of the cost. This has helped to make Nutcrackers more appealing and assessable to a wider population.
