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  • 21Old Dutch Church (Kingston, New York) — First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Kingston Church spire and south elevation, 2008 Basic information Location Kingston, NY, USA Geographic coordinates …

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  • 22Pendulum clock — A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. From its invention in 1656 by Christiaan Huygens until the 1930s, the pendulum clock was the world s most accurate timekeeper, accounting for its… …

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  • 23Cuckoo clock in culture — Karl Lagerfeld holding a creation by Stefan Strumbel. The cuckoo clock, more than any other kind of timepiece, has often featured in literature, music, cinema, television, etc., in the Western culture, as a metaphor or allegory of innocence,… …

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  • 2412-hour clock — AM/PM redirects here. For the convenience store chain, see ampm. Clock system 12 hour 24 hour midnight (start of day) 12:00* 00:00 12:59 a.m. 00:59   1:00 a.m. 01:00   2:00 a.m. 02:00 … …

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  • 25Game clock — A game clock consists of two adjacent clocks and buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, such that the two component clocks never run simultaneously. Game clocks are used in two player games where the players move in turn. The purpose …

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  • 26Japanese clock — A nihongo|Japanese clock|和時計|wadokei is a mechanical clock that has been made to tell traditional Japanese time. Mechanical clocks were introduced into Japan by Jesuit missionaries or Dutch merchants in the sixteenth century. These clocks were of …

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  • 27National Watch and Clock Museum — The National Watch and Clock Museum (USA) (NWCM), located in Columbia, Pennsylvania, is one of a very few museums in the United States dedicated solely to horology, which is the history, science and art of timekeeping and timekeepers. Like its… …

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  • 28Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero? — Infobox Single Name = Just Who Is the 5 O Clock Hero? Artist = The Jam from Album = The Gift B side = War, The Great Depression Released = 1982 07 03 Format = Recorded = Genre = Length = 2.15 Label = Polydor Writer = Paul Weller Producer =… …

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  • 29Ormolu — Chinese porcelains mounted with Parisian gilt bronze ( ormolu ) in neoclassical taste, late 18th century (Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris) Ormolu /ˈɔrməluː/ (from French or moulu, signifying ground or pounded gold) is an 18th century English term… …

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  • 30duchess —    A polite way of addressing a duchess, who might more formally be calied ‘your Grace’. Used by some men, especially Londoners, to their wives, since ‘my old Dutch’ has long been a Cockney way of referring to one’s wife. ‘Dutch’ in this sense… …

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