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GRUNGE<\/a>: Electricity is easy to take for granted in our modern world, but electric lighting hasn’t been around for that long. It was only a few hundred years ago that we were relying on candles and finally gas lights to push back the darkness.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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