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Massive gift keeps nation's last clock school ticking

And clocks. More than 400 from all around the world. Cuckoos. Hundred day clocks. Grandfather clocks. Nautical clocks. Regulator clocks. Wall clocks. Mantel clocks. Alarm clocks. Some worked and others didn't. The collection represented numerous styles ...

Clocks' many duties stand the test of time

In fact, as you step into the warm confines of the small shop at 1946 W. 13th St. – the only clock store in Wichita – you can hear time move. It whirs, strikes, tick-tocks and chimes all around you. The top of the hour is almost always striking from ...

A Giant Clock and a Giant Clamshell

“And so, as it chimed either of its two different tunes [Westminster or Whittington] the sound would drift upstairs and everybody could hear it. I've read that the house has thirty-two rooms and an Readers may recall that two similarly gigantic ...

Clock school at the prison in Pendleton is still ticking

And clocks. More than 400 from all around the world. Cuckoos. Hundred day clocks. Grandfather clocks. Nautical clocks. Regulator clocks. Wall clocks. Mantel clocks. Alarm clocks. Some worked and others didn't. The collection represented numerous styles ...

History's Headlines: Lehigh County Courthouse clock ticking for 100 years

For Varricchio, who looks out on the courtroom, the clock on the back wall seems almost like a work of art. It is the first church clock in the United States to sound what are commonly called the Westminster Chimes or Cambridge Quarters, on the hour....

TV review: 'Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas' is the worst (best) ever

She has an official book and an official wall calendar. After a big fight in a sporting good store, with paintball guns, a British-voiced cat chimes in, "Sorry to interrupt, but we may be taking some creative license with what actually happened ...

Suicide by Clericalism

It was integral to the church's wall-to-wall iconography, which had been commissioned by the previous pastor and funded in part by the Vatican. Other icons in the sanctuary remain. Those that are now missing were integral to the “sacred geometry of the ...