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Bill Galinsky is nuts for cuckoo clocks
Bill Galinsky works on repairing a customer's German 1970 Hubert Herr cuckoo clock. Galinsky, a master cuckoo clock carver and maker, repairs about 200 cuckoo clocks each year. He estimates he makes another couple hundred clocks annually that he ...
There's no proof daylight saving time saves electricity, so why do we even bother?
If you're looking for someone to blame for daylight saving time, allow us to suggest the Germans. After all it was Germany which, in April, 1916, first started moving clocks forward by an hour, to conserve energy during World War I. The rest of Europe ...
The Last Rock-Star Poet
The famous Thomas artistry, meanwhile, all those whirring micro-mechanisms of beat and assonance and interior rhyme, now appears a work of slight craziness—as if the poem is an obsessive cuckoo clock from which, upon the stroke of midnight, the ...
The Record-Setting Skyscrapers You've Never Heard Of: Best #Cityreads of the ...
The young woman was stunned by the level of detail: the sound of the cuckoo clock that woke him from his sleep, the text of his love letters, the name of the cobbler who fixed his shoes and the baker who made his rolls, the floor plan of the first ...
Traditional skills at risk of dying out, says craft group
Trug-makers Makers of traditional trug baskets at the Truggery near Hailsham, East Sussex. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian. Hannah Ellis-Petersen. Tuesday 30 December 2014 12.24 EST Last modified on Tuesday 30 December 2014 19.40 ...
The United States Is No Longer the Most Popular Country in the World
The news: A famous work ethic, high quality of life, cuckoo clocks: There's nothing more German than making the rest of us insecure, which explains why Deutschland has been named the most popular country in the world. That's according to the Anholt-GfK ...
How The Wall Came Tumbling Down: Made In Germany
Aside from cuckoo clocks, the Black Forest was at one time home to the largest watch factory in the world. In its heyday around 1903, Junghans – founded in 1861 and now most famous for bringing solar technology to the wrist – employed 3,000 people....
