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Widow Margaret Tyler, 71, is a retired telephonist who has four grown-up ...
My favourite is a table clock carved from one piece of wood. It has two hares on top with a fox at the bottom staring up at them. We chased this clock for over a year until we found it. Hunting for clocks is exciting. We have picked them up from all ...
Waukesha clock restorer crazy about cuckoos
He estimates he makes another couple hundred clocks annually that he sells from his showroom inside a store built to look like those on the Swiss chalet-style cuckoo clocks. His Christmas rush recently finished, Galinsky took time from repairing a 1970 ...
'The Italians,' by John Hooper
In it, Harry Lime compares the tumultuous 30 years of Borgia rule in Italy, which produced the Renaissance and some of its greatest artists, to the 500 years of democracy and peace in Switzerland, which, he claims, produced only the cuckoo clock. It's ...
Rising Franc Upends Daily Life in Swiss Borderlands
Some residents of Constance are growing irritated at the flood of Swiss bargain hunters, with shops increasingly catering to those shoppers rather than locals, says Mr. Burchardt, the mayor. “Constance doesn't want to be the cheap city of Switzerland ...
Cuckoo Journalism for a Tweetable Time
Soon enough, Mr. Hughes seems to have concluded that his fuddy-duddy journal had no future in the world of the Huffington Post, BuzzFeed and Politico, websites that churn out countless bits and bytes of news, commentary and opinion around the clock....
Bavaria boasts a winter wonderland
I inherited a Bavarian cuckoo clock this year. At first I dismissed it as kitsch, something to stash in the basement next to a few deflated piñatas and some Moroccan slippers. But then the clock struck the hour, the cuckoo dove out from a carved whorl ...
Boris Nemtsov: Alive in Death
What is sure is that Boris Nemtsov would still be alive and leading Sunday's anti-war demonstration, a call to which he issued on the Ekho Moskyy channel just three hours before his death, if Putin's Russia had not spent the last 20 years hunting down ...
