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Inviting Black Forest is anything but bleak

Traditional half-timbered houses have gabled roofs and framed windows that form distinctive geometric patterns on the building facades. Triberg also boasts three claims to fame: cuckoo clocks, Black Forest cake and Germany's highest waterfalls. The ...

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 ...

Festival of Trees brings in thousands

ZANESVILLE – This year, the Festival of Trees brought in $3,000 more than last year. The Festival of Trees, an annual fundraiser for the Zanesville-Muskingum County Chamber of Commerce, took place Friday and more than 200 items were auctioned off....

Festival of Trees auction slated for Friday

More than 200 decorated trees, wreaths, stockings and other entries and their incentives will be auctioned off from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday at the Muskingum County Welcome Center. Bids may be placed in person or by calling 740-450-1990. The auction ...

Luxuries: Designer cuckoo clocks, red clothes, accessories

Go cuckoo for these clocks. As daylight saving time comes to a close, keep track of precious minutes with a traditional or unique cuckoo clock. These exquisite timepieces strike the right chord with music and magical sounds to help you stay on schedule ...

How To Harvest Uranium from the Ocean

back to shore, and the uranium is eluted [a chemical extraction method] off. “You get between 2 and 4 grams of uranium sticking to this stuff per kilogram of plastic,” says Erich Schneider, a nuclear engineer at the University of Texas at Austin ...

Gillette clock repairman keeps a timeless tradition alive

No one was hired from a field of a dozen initial applicants. CHICAGO (AP) — Kyle Hendricks threw 7 1-3 strong innings, Chris Coghlan added an RBI single and the Chicago Cubs earned a 2-0 win over the Mia… WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) — Danny Lee ...

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 ...

Birds Clock Design

Haoshi Design has designed two very beautiful clocks staging birds : the Swallow Clock and the Cuckoo Clock. The Swallow Clock contains a dial where the numbers are replaced by 12 birds with their flights frozen at different times. The Cuckoo Clock ...

New stage at Oktoberfest event is cuckoo by design

The Glockenspiel Stage making its debut this year at the Columbus Oktoberfest offers a cross between a cuckoo ... a large clock, an antlered deer head and two doors — from which dancers will emerge on the hour to perform to traditional German tunes.

9 Super Cool Clocks That Make Great Design Gifts

No one can afford to "watch the clock" all day, but we do look look at our wall clocks often... These wall clocks will update a room's decor with a fresh modern look and give it new personality - one that matches your very cool giftee. Swiss designer ...

The Past, Present, and Future of the Cuckoo Clock

The cuckoo clock.” In traditional cuckoo clocks, the “coo coo” sound is derived from a system of bellows pushing air through two wooden whistles to recreate the distinctive two-note call of the common cuckoo. The gears of these traditional cuckoo ...

Cuckoo Clock Wall Decal

The newly revamped Hunkydory Home has this interesting twist on a traditional timepiece in this Cuckoo Clock Vinyl Wall Sticker. The wall sticker features a Scandinavian folk-art style illustration with birds, foxes and tries in retro shades of blue ...