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  • Be further advised that there wll always be a US Nuclear submarine that will be in range, and will reduce your sad little country to a border to border, glass-paved, self-lighting parking lot.

    U.S. military plans against Iran being updated 2010

  • The trees were those cool slash non-traditional self-lighting trees, and they were donated by QVC and a company called Bethlehem Lights.

    A Serious Subject Gets Comic Relief Marshall Heyman 2011

  • The caves were the foundation of much of the city of Kubiilikaan, and at the back of one of them was the staircase leading into the vast, echoing, self-lighting building containing the time device.

    Massage 2010

  • BECAUSE a smoker often has a cigarette but no match with which to light it, an inventor has developed a self-lighting fag which eliminates use of matches.

    2008 July 2008

  • Lucky dream incenses of early to mid 20th century fell into two major types: loose, self-lighting incense powders with a three-digit gig printed on paper and inserted in every package, and compressed charcoal briquette incense, which, when burned, revealed a hidden three-digit number in the ashes.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2005

  • The use of similar flaming concoctions as weapons and magic tricks (pyr automaton, or self-lighting fire) is described by many ancient authors.

    Fiery Finery 1997

  • Aside from his pipes and cigar-holders, he had provided himself with a self-lighting match-safe for his vest-pocket, a self-closing rubber chewing-tobacco pouch that kept the tobacco clean and moist, and other things that appealed to his sense of cleanliness.

    The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher 1904

  • The technology uses self-lighting diodes that produce more vivid colors than older models, with contrast ratios about 50 times greater than LCD displays on the market.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter C bevangelista@sfchronicle.com (Benny Evangelista 2012

  • We could turn your entire Country into the proverbial glass-topped self-lighting parking lot in 30 minutes.

    Latest Articles http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/04/18/iran.ahm 2010

  • We could turn your entire Country into the proverbial glass-topped self-lighting parking lot in 30 minutes.

    Latest Articles http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/04/18/iran.ahm 2010

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