traditional german cuckoo clocks

10 weird finds at new Savers thrift store in Fairview Park (photos)

FAIRVIEW PARK, Ohio -- You can find a German-made cuckoo clock, a TV for $5 and an Italian end table with a built-in music box at the new Savers thrift store, which raises money for Easter Seals. The Fairview Park store at 21201 Center Ridge Road is ...

Widow Margaret Tyler, 71, is a retired telephonist who has four grown-up ...

My brother and I still restore clocks, it's our main form of income. Funnily enough people from the Black Forest in Germany, where the cuckoo clocks we know today were originally made, still send their clocks to us for restoration. Now that we are both ...

Neoconservatism - Where Trotsky Meets Stalin and Hitler

Their core belief—that society can be managed by the state in both its political and economic life—is equally at odds with the traditional conservative outlook and with the non-Stalinist Left. In this important respect the neoconservatives are ...

Germany's great outdoors: The Black Forest, wine country and Saxon Switzerland

Between the bucolic Black Forest High Road and the Murg Valley, it protects thick woodland, glacial lakes, thunderous waterfalls and dark moors. You can even find house-sized cuckoo clocks near the village of Triberg. The region is also a fine-dining ...

How a gentle electrical jolt can focus a sluggish mind

The treatment powerfully depicted in the 1975 Oscar-winning movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” is called electroconvulsive therapy. It's delivers big jolts of alternating current to treat But in 2000, some German scientists published this ...

Plucky outsiders take on Swiss giants at Baselworld

That is what German clock-maker Andreas Fritsch, who is exhibiting at Baselworld for the first time, has done. He has been invited by the prestigious Independent He wanted to become a watchmaker at the age of 12, when he saw his father repair a ...

Trekking Around Titlis: Snowshoeing in Central Switzerland

It's late afternoon, that magical part of the day when the sun gives those last rays everything it's got. The pretty alpine landscape now seems magical, as a pink hued glow is cast upon the snow. Only the soft crunch of snowshoes striking the ground ...