black forest battery operated wall clock

The Battle of Waterloo, as it happened on June 18, 1815

"I announced to Lord Uxbridge that, the operation being found necessary, the sooner it was performed the better. He said, 'Very .. In the hellish haze of gunsmoke and moisture, Cpt Alex Mercer sees a horse wandering through the batteries, nuzzling ...

Dear White Rappers: Stop Using the N-Word and Check Your Damn Privilege

White Hollywood stars hopping on stage with harmonicas and shades to play music that was born of the pain of the black sharecropper was a distortion and erasure of the blues' significance; and the essence of hip-hop gets sterilized and bastardized when ...

Hosseini is Kearney's only master mender of timepieces

Amid grandfather clocks, wall clocks, mantel clocks, Seiko watches and a few dainty cuckoo clocks, Saadat Hosseini sits peering through a magnifying loop at a tiny hair spring that is just .02 millimeters in size, as tiny as the head of a pin. He ...

The Joan of Arc Nobody Knows

A black cloth had been draped over one of the windows to spare anyone who might be offended by the Confederate battle flag flying out front. A bill called the .. Schairer had barely crossed the border from Holland into Germany when word came that a ...

The US government wants YOU for its virtual e-cybermission

It starts innocently enough. You're just a young snow leopard with a flip phone strapped to your ski goggles, the whole world at your fingertips. You program high-concept video games about snow drifts that are also cryptographic mazes and gamification ...

Silly old moo: 5 craziest crimes of the week

Police in Troutman say Shannon Marie Farrell and Lekia Hall, both 18, put the clocks in unused lockers at South Iredell High School, then replaced the school's zip ties on the lockers with locks of their own. Next: The school resource officer heard ...

The Star's NFL Draft tracker: Chiefs pick CB Marcus Peters; Bucs take Winston ...

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers made Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston the first pick in the NFL Draft Thursday night in Chicago. Another quarterback went next: Hawaiian-born Oregon grad Marcus Mariota was selected second by the Tennessee Titans....

Inviting Black Forest is anything but bleak

an activity which prompted a debate over whether one would suit our sitting room wall. Prices range from 20 euros for the tiniest clock to more than a thousand for a large carved timepiece. Our tummies were rumbling, and the Black Forest’s culinary ...

Germany's Black Forest: Dark woods and mushrooms

The forest, near Enzklösterle, Germany, was the inspiration for the Grimm brothers’ fairy tales. (Photo: Siobhan Starrs, Associated Press) Enzklösterle, Germany – The Black Forest ... room wall. Prices range from 20 euros for the tiniest clock ...

N Wall Clock

Its 12 stamped-metal numbers mount to the wall individually with the included adhesives around the central clock mechanism to create a custom-sized clock that fits your space. Operates on one AA battery (not included).

Interstellar Clock

Infinity lights seem to extend into intersteller space while reflecting off the back of the Interstellar Clock. Battery operated clock and lights are AC powered. The clock measures 22 inches high by 22 inches wide and features brushed aluminum and infinity ...

Dallas Life: Repairman is cuckoo for cuckoo clocks

Nicholas Marchesoni of Heritage House Clocks, an expert in cuckoo clocks, told me that the clocks are hand-crafted in the Black Forest region of southwestern Germany. Originally, they were made in the dead of winter; in the spring, salesmen would go door ...

New wall clock features live fish

A clock that doubles up as an aquarium featuring a Siamese fighter is sure to get fishkeepers up in arms. Called the BettaClock, it combines a small single-fish aquarium with a battery operated wall clock and was exhibited by manufacturers Aquavista at the ...