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Southwest Germany tourism officials make push for South Florida travelers

It borders France, Switzerland and Austria. The area is home to cities such as Stuttgart, Heidelberg and Baden-Baden as well as the Black Forest Highlands –known for the authentic Black Forest Cake, Black Forest Ham and Cuckoo clock. Visitors to the ...

The Origins of the Automaton

Ktesibios, the first head of the Great Library of Alexandria and an inventor, used "water to sound a whistle and make a model owl move. He had invented the world's first cuckoo clock", according to the book "The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace ...

Luxuries: Designer cuckoo clocks, red clothes, accessories

One-day-movement Anton Schneider Bears German cuckoo clock, $730.80 at blackforestgifts.com. • Carved owls and birds eight-day mechanical German Black Forest cuckoo clock, $474.58 at clockrite.com. • Auckland 1055 wall clock is made of PVC, wood ...

Is winemaking an art or science?

In vino veritas – in wine there is truth – says the Latin proverb, but the truth behind how grapes ferment into a unique vintage is a mystery long cloaked by the term terroir. Andrew Masterson finds that science is finally peeling back the curtain ...

Souvenirs: Beyond T-Shirts

On an end table in my living room sits a chubby, six-inch-high blue pottery owl with huge eyes. His name is Bernard. Bernard was We never remember to wind the little cuckoo clock we bought in Germany's Black Forest. I'm not even sure where it is in ...

Lone stars: Half of the stars in the Universe may lie outside galaxies

Caltech scientists may have found some of the missing matter in the Universe. Cathal O'Connell explains. Listen to this article. or subscribe to our podcast. A time-lapse photograph of the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment rocket launch from NASA's ...

Sonya Pemberton is an Australian science film-maker. She talks to Friona ...

A young couple dance a slow and sexy tango against the backdrop of a German castle; an old Hollywood film shows a man frantically trying to turn back the hands of a clock, and a vivid animation full of sepia washes and fine line portraits conveys the ...

You'll Go Cuckoo For This Gigantic Clock Carved Out Of A Single Tree

A remarkable cuckoo clock forged from a single maple tree is being used to crow about Portland, Oregon. Designed by Nicolas Gros and carved by chainsaw sculptor J. Chester Armstrong, the 24-foot-high, 7,000-pound clock is being shown off around the ...

Quartz Black Forest Hand Painted Flower Cuckoo Clock

Black forest house with individual handlaid wooden shingles. Wooden cuckoo, dial with roman numerals and hands. Two decorative metal weights. Owl and squirrel. Woodchopper moves every full hour. Quartz movement with twelve melodies. Shut-off lever on left ...

LARGEST CUCKOO CLOCK IN THE WORLD/ Guiness Book of World Records

That building is a cuckoo clock. It has been entered in the Guiness book of world records since 1997. You can go inside for a tour. It is a nominal fee. Notice the weight outside the window. The sign says in German "Touching strictly forbidden."