Another reason for lighting the Hanukkah candles first is pirsumay nissa (publicly proclaiming the miracle), which should take place as soon as possible.

Let others dispute whether Anah was the Inventour, or onely the Repertour of Mules.

We were just blatantly flaunting our freak flag, she says. We were trying to be badder than anyone else—and we were getting away with it!

[T]he presence of a pentimento is an extremely valuable entity which supports the conclusion that a painting is an original composition – so, by inference, therefore, refuting any later suggestion that the painting could be the work of a copyist, who would have been engaged upon copying an existing painting as seen! The identification of a pentimento in an artwork can occur in one of two ways: by analytical interrogation of the subsurface using penetrative radiation such as IRR or XRD, or by direct visual observation, where the overlaying paint has worn away […]