This site explains the phases of the moon and an easy way to remember waxing and waning. Students have to explain a given phase to their classmates with a model.

At this site students can make their own telescope and see how it works with this experiment. Out of a light, a pair of glasses, a magnifying glass and wax paper.

At this site students can make their own telescope and see how it works with this experiment. Out of a light, a pair of glasses, a magnifying glass and wax paper.

At this site students can make their own telescope and see how it works with this experiment. Out of a light, a pair of glasses, a magnifying glass and wax paper.

At this site students can make their own telescope and see how it works with this experiment. Out of a light, a pair of glasses, a magnifying glass and wax paper.

The painted terra-cotta statuette depicts a seated schoolgirl writing her lesson with a stylus on a waxed wooden tablet. She is well featured and looks forward innocently.

The mummy of Ramesses the Fifth was later found in the royal cache at Deir el-Bahari. The king's face was painted in red and his nostrils were filled with wax. The mummy shows evidence of smallpox.

Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home for the Johnson of Johnson Wax.

An image of "Study for the Age of Silver", created by Pietro Da Cortona in 1637 (Red and black pencil on waxed paper, 350 x 246 mm).

An image of "Cardinal Fleury Dying in the Arms of Religion", created by Edme Bouchardon in 1745 (Wax, height 165 cm).

An image of "Alexander the Great Refuses to Take Water", created by Giuseppe Cades in 1792 (Tempera with wax on canvas, 81 x 114 cm).

An image of "The Uprising in 1812", created by Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy in 1816 (Wax).

An image of "The Battle at Borodino", created by Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy in 1817 (Wax).

An image of "Madonna and Child", created by Jacopo Sansovino from 1511-18 (Gilded wax and canvas dipped in stucco, height 63 cm).

An image of "Perseus", created by Benvenuto Cellini during the 1540's (Wax, height 72 cm).

An image of "Decoration of the west wall", created by Eugene Delacroix from 1833-37 (Oil and virgin wax on plaster).

An image of "War", created by Eugene Delacroix from 1833-37 (Oil and virgin wax on plaster, 140 x 380 cm).

An image of "The Garonne", created by Eugene Delacroix from 1833-37 (Oil and virgin wax on plaster, 300 x 110 cm).

An image of "The Mediterranean", created by Eugene Delacroix from 1833-37 (Oil and virgin wax on plaster, 300 x 122 cm).

An image of "St Michael defeats the Devil", created by Eugene Delacroix from 1854-61 (Oil and wax on mounted canvas, 441 x 575 cm).

An image of "Heliodoros Driven from the Temple", created by Eugene Delacroix from 1854-61 (Oil and wax on plaster, 751 x 485 cm).

An image of "Medallion Portrait of Emperor Maximilian II", created by Antonio Abondio, c. 1575 (Wax on obsidian).

An image of "Old Woman (Zsuzsanna Ferenczy)", created by Istvan Ferenczy, c. 1850 (Wax, 130 mm).

This site has commentary and great photos of early recording devices and online sound clips of actual wax cylinder recordings.