The Clock Winder is a 1972 novel by Anne Tyler. The protagonist of the story is Elizabeth, a young woman who is taking time away from college to earn a...
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A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time. The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals...
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Anne Tyler (redirect from Redhead by the Side of the Road)
them forever." If Morning Ever Comes (1964) The Tin Can Tree (1965) A Slipping-Down Life (1970) The Clock Winder (1972) Celestial Navigation (1974) Searching...
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seconds. The clock winder had to ascend 66 steps, then turn the heavy strike winder 75 times, and the time winder 20 times, using a crank. The bell, made...
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alarm clock or alarm is a clock that is designed to alert an individual or group of people at a specified time. The primary function of these clocks is to...
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Clock towers are a specific type of structure that house a turret clock and have one or more clock faces on the upper exterior walls. Many clock towers...
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7555°N 73.9848°W / 40.7555; -73.9848 The National Debt Clock is a billboard-sized running total display that shows the United States gross national debt...
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Big Ben (redirect from Palace of Westminster Clock Tower, Great Clock of Westminster)
Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, and, by extension, for the clock tower itself, which stands at the north end...
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2037600; 0.1176400 The Corpus Clock, also known as the Grasshopper clock, is a large sculptural clock at street level on the outside of the Taylor Library...
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An atomic clock is a clock that measures time by monitoring the resonant frequency of atoms. It is based on atoms having different energy levels. Electron...
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clock (also a longcase clock, tall-case clock, grandfather's clock, hall clock or floor clock) is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock,...
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A water clock or clepsydra (from Ancient Greek κλεψύδρα (klepsúdra) 'pipette, water clock'; from κλέπτω (kléptō) 'to steal' and ὕδωρ (hydor) 'water';...
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Atmos is the brand name of a mechanical torsion pendulum clock manufactured by Jaeger-LeCoultre in Switzerland which does not need to be wound manually...
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half. The Giants tack on another touchdown and a field goal before the Eagles manage to score another touchdown. As the clock winds down, the Giants...
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A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it...
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silent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of Drumstrings Casey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him. She manages...
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doping ban. BBC Sport (28 May 2005). Retrieved on 2009-08-14. Mullings clocks wind-aided 9.91. Sports Jamaica (31 July 2007). Retrieved on 2009-08-14. Bolt...
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Beat the Clock is an American television game show that involves people trying to complete challenges to win prizes while faced with a time limit. The show...
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The Wells Cathedral clock is an astronomical clock in the north transept of Wells Cathedral, England. The clock is one of the group of famous 14th– to...
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A candle clock is a thin candle with consistently spaced marking that, when burned, indicates the passage of periods of time. While no longer used today...
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clock is a clock that sounds the hours audibly on a bell, gong, or other audible device. In 12-hour striking, used most commonly in striking clocks today...
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Clockwork (redirect from Clock work)
which include clocks and watches, kitchen timers, music boxes, and wind-up toys. The earliest known example of a clockwork mechanism is the Antikythera...
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electric clock is a clock that is powered by electricity, as opposed to a mechanical clock which is powered by a hanging weight or a mainspring. The term...
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(disambiguation) A torsion pendulum clock, more commonly known as an anniversary clock or 400-day clock, is a mechanical clock which keeps time with a mechanism...
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Susan (dog) (category Individual dogs in the United Kingdom)
was the fourth time she had bitten someone at the palace. On the previous occasions it had been a sentry, a detective, and the royal clock winder. By...
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A clock chime is a melody or a set of melodies played at intervals upon a set of bells to mark the passage of time. It is also the name of the installed...
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Royal corgis (redirect from The Queen's corgis)
been injured by the corgis. In 1954, the palace clock winder, Leonard Hubbard, was bitten by Susan upon entering the nursery at the Royal Lodge, Windsor...
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A turret clock or tower clock is a clock designed to be mounted high in the wall of a building, usually in a clock tower, in public buildings such as...
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Formerly topped by a wind vane, it is the only surviving horologium or clock tower from classical antiquity. It also housed a large water clock and incorporated...
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A clock position, or clock bearing, is the direction of an object observed from a vehicle, typically a vessel or an aircraft, relative to the orientation...
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