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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 ...

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 ...

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 three ...

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 ...

The time lords

The shop itself contains hundreds of clocks — wood ones, metal ones, car and cat-shaped ones, all ticking away, filling the crowded Edmonton shop with bings, bongs, and the chimes of Westminster every hour. “Never a dull moment in this Cuckoo ...

The India Diaries: My Grandmother's House Is a Tchotchke Zone

Thankfully they brought it to India to give to my grandmother, and we were free of having to hear the racket until he bought ANOTHER CUCKOO CLOCK shortly afterwards. This one stopped working a few years back. My grandmother says a local repairman ...