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A grandfather clock (also a longcase clock, tall-case clock, or floor clock) is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock with the pendulum held inside the tower or waist of the case. [1]

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A Great Big Bunch of You

A Great Big Bunch of You is an American animated short film.

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Aaron Willard

Aaron Willard (b. October 14, 1757, Grafton, Massachusetts Bay; d. May 20, 1844, Boston, Massachusetts, US) was an entrepreneur, an industrialist, and a designer of clocks who worked extensively at his Roxbury, Massachusetts, factory during the early years of the United States of America.

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Adderbury

Adderbury is a winding linear village and rural civil parish about south of Banbury in northern Oxfordshire, England.

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All Creatures Great and Small (TV series)

All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot.

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Anchor escapement

In horology, the anchor escapement is a type of escapement used in pendulum clocks.

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Angel Face (1998 film)

Angel Face (La cara del ángel) is a 1998 Argentine film, written and directed by Pablo Torre.

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Antiques Roadshow (series 27)

Antiques Roadshow is a British television series produced by the BBC since 1979.

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Antiques Roadshow (series 28)

Antiques Roadshow is a British television series produced by the BBC since 1979.

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Antiques Roadshow (series 29)

Antiques Roadshow is a British television series produced by the BBC since 1979.

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Atmos clock

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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Baleroy Mansion

The Baleroy Mansion is a 32-room estate located in the historic and affluent Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

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Barrel organ

A barrel organ (or roller organ) is a mechanical musical instrument consisting of bellows and one or more ranks of pipes housed in a case, usually of wood, and often highly decorated.

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Batman (serial)

Batman (or The Batman) is a 1943 black-and-white 15-chapter theatrical serial from Columbia Pictures, produced by Rudolph C. Flothow, directed by Lambert Hillyer, that stars Lewis Wilson as Batman and Douglas Croft as his sidekick Robin.

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Batman (Terry McGinnis)

Terrence "Terry" McGinnis is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Batman in film

The fictional superhero Batman, who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics, has appeared in various films since his inception.

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Bilbie family

The Bilbie family were bell founders and clockmakers based initially in Chew Stoke, Somerset and later at Cullompton, Devon in south-west England from the late 17th century to the early 19th century.

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Black Forest clockmakers

Craftsmanship of Black Forest clockmakers dates back to mid of the 17th century.

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Bob (physics)

A bob is the weight on the end of a pendulum found most commonly, but not exclusively, in pendulum clocks.

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Bornholm (disambiguation)

Bornholm is an island in the Baltic Sea.

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Boston early clock industry

The Boston early clock industry is the 19th-century industry of a neighborhood on Roxbury Street, which had not yet been incorporated into Boston.

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Bromley House Library

The Bromley House Library (originally the Nottingham Subscription Library) is a subscription library in the United Kingdom.

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Burt Gillett's Toddle Tales

Burt Gillet's Toddle Tales is a theatrical cartoon series which lasted from June 29, 1934 to September 7, 1934, and was made by the Van Beuren Studios.

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Bute House

Bute House (Gaelic: Taigh Bhòid) is the official residence of the First Minister of Scotland located within Charlotte Square in Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland.

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Button King

Dalton Stevens (1930 - November 21, 2016), better known as the Button King, was a hobbyist, outsider artist and musician notable for his unusual button art and related media appearances.

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Case Closed (season 1)

The first season of the Case Closed anime was directed by Kenji Kodama.

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Case Closed (season 9)

The ninth season of the Case Closed anime was directed by Kenji Kodama and Yasuichiro Yamamoto and produced by TMS Entertainment and Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation.

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Charlbury

Charlbury is a small town and civil parish in the Evenlode valley, about north of Witney in West Oxfordshire.

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Chew Stoke

Chew Stoke is a small village and civil parish in the Chew Valley, in Somerset, England, about south of Bristol.

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Childrey

Childrey is a village and civil parish about west of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse.

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Cliffe, Richmondshire

Cliffe is a small village and civil parish in the Tees Valley near Piercebridge in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, about west of Darlington, and north of Richmond and the Yorkshire Dales.

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Clock

A clock is an instrument to measure, keep, and indicate time.

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Clock chime

A clock chime is a melody played at intervals, usually during or on the hour, to mark the passage of time.

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Clock face

A clock face, or dial, is the part of an analog clock (or watch) that displays the time through the use of a fixed-numbered dial or dials and moving hands.

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Clock network

A clock network or clock system is a set of synchronized clocks designed to always show exactly the same time by communicating with each other.

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Clockmaker

A clockmaker is an artisan who makes and/or repairs clocks.

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Crown Collection

The Crown Collection is the assemblage of more than 7,000 objects, including contemporary and antique art and furnishings, books, rugs, and other objects owned by the sovereign in right of Canada, many of which are used to furnish the country's official residences.

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Currituck Beach Light

The Currituck Beach Light, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Cyril Beeson

Cyril Frederick Cherrington Beeson CIE, D.Sc. (1889–1975) was an English entomologist and forest conservator who worked in India.

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Daniel Delander

Daniel Delander (died 1733), also known as De Lander or Delaunder, was a notable London clock and watch maker coming from a dynasty of clockmakers.

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Daniel Pabst

Daniel Pabst (June 11, 1826 – July 15, 1910) was a German-born American cabinetmaker of the Victorian Era.

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Dean Heritage Centre

The Dean Heritage Centre is located in the valley of Soudley, Gloucestershire, England in the Forest of Dean and exists to record and preserve the social and industrial history of the area and its people.

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Doctor Thirteen

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Down Beat Bear

Down Beat Bear is a 1956 one reel animated Tom and Jerry cartoon, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley.

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Erasmus Darwin House

Erasmus Darwin House in Lichfield, Staffordshire is the former home of the English poet and physician Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of naturalist Charles Darwin.

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Escapement

An escapement is a device in mechanical watches and clocks that transfers energy to the timekeeping element (the "impulse action") and allows the number of its oscillations to be counted (the "locking action").

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First Data 500

The First Data 500 is a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series stock car race held at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia, the other one being the STP 500 in March, The race has been run in every NASCAR Cup Series, starting with the inaugural 1949 season, making it the oldest NASCAR race still run today.

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Garfield's Halloween Adventure

Garfield's Halloween Adventure (originally titled Garfield in Disguise) is a 1985 American animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip.

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Gastrointestinal tract

The gastrointestinal tract (digestive tract, digestional tract, GI tract, GIT, gut, or alimentary canal) is an organ system within humans and other animals which takes in food, digests it to extract and absorb energy and nutrients, and expels the remaining waste as feces.

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Gottlieb Daimler

Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (17 March 1834 – 6 March 1900) was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg, a federal state of the German Confederation), in what is now Germany.

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Grandfather clock (disambiguation)

A grandfather clock is a type of freestanding, weight-driven clock, usually six to eight feet in height.

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H.R. Pufnstuf

H.R. Pufnstuf is a children's television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft in the United States.

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Harborough Museum

Harborough Museum was opened in 1983 in the former R & W H Symington corset factory that also houses the Harborough District Council offices in the historic market town of Market Harborough.

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Harlequin (video game)

Harlequin is a strategy-based platform game for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST released in 1992 by Gremlin Graphics.

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Henry Clay Work

Henry Clay Work (October 1, 1832 – June 8, 1884) was an American composer and songwriter.

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Herbie Popnecker

Herbie Popnecker is a fictional character, who first appeared in Forbidden Worlds #73 in December 1958, published by American Comics Group.

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Hill Top, Cumbria

Hill Top is a 17th-century house in Near Sawrey near Hawkshead, in the English county of Cumbria.

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History of timekeeping devices

For thousands of years, devices have been used to measure and keep track of time.

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Hora de España

Hora de España (disambiguation) Hora de España, literally "Spanish time", may refer to.

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House (1977 film)

is a 1977 Japanese horror comedy film directed and produced by Nobuhiko Obayashi.

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Howard Miller Clock Company

The Howard Miller Company is a Zeeland, Michigan based manufacturer of longcase clocks and other home furnishings.

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Huntington Free Library and Reading Room

The Huntington Free Library is a privately endowed library near Westchester Square in the Bronx borough of New York City which is open to the public.

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Isel Hall

Isel Hall is an ancient Cumbrian residence that sits on a steep rise on the northern banks of the River Derwent, two miles to the South of Bassenthwaite Lake, three miles east, north-east of Cockermouth, with views over the Lake District fells and Skiddaw.

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Jane Annie

Jane Annie, or The Good Conduct Prize is a comic opera written in 1893 by J. M. Barrie and Arthur Conan Doyle, with music by Ernest Ford, a conductor and occasional composer.

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Jerry and the Raiders

Jerry and the Raiders is a Canadian computer animated television series created by Nancy Trites-Botkin and Mark Shekter, distributed by 9 Story Media Group, and produced by First Star Studios, with animation done by FAKE Digital Entertainment.

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John Alker

John Alker (fl. 1797–1832), aka Alker of Wigan, was one of a family of longcase clock makers from Wigan, Lancashire.

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John Harrison

John Harrison (– 24 March 1776) was a self-educated English carpenter and clockmaker who invented a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.

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John Knibb

John Knibb (1650–1722) was an English clockmaker born in Claydon, Oxfordshire.

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Joseph Parry's Cottage

Joseph Parry's Cottage, also known as 4 Chapel Row, is a cottage located in Merthyr Tydfil, in South Wales.

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Joseph Windmills

Joseph Windmills (c1640-1724), was an eminent London watch- and clockmaker who, with his son Thomas, produced outstanding timepieces between 1671 and 1737.

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Judas Iscariot

Judas Iscariot (died AD) was a disciple and one of the original Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ.

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Ken Parker (guitar maker)

Ken Parker is an American luthier known for his unique archtop guitars and the controversial Parker Fly electric guitar which came out in 1993.

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La Fortaleza

La Fortaleza (The Fortress) is the official residence of the Governor of Puerto Rico.

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Ladies Delight Light

The Ladies Delight Light is a small lighthouse on Lake Cobbossee, in Winthrop, Maine, United States.

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List of Auction Hunters episodes

Auction Hunters is an American reality television series that premiered on November 9, 2010, on Spike.

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List of British innovations and discoveries

The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including predecessor states in the history of the formation of the United Kingdom.

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List of dimensions of the Discworld

Discworld, the fictional planet of a fantasy series by Terry Pratchett, exists at a point near the very edge of universe's reality spectrum.

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List of Fairy Tail characters

The Fairy Tail manga and anime series features an extensive cast of characters created by Hiro Mashima.

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List of How It's Made episodes

How It's Made is a documentary television series that premiered on January 6, 2001 on the Discovery Channel (now known as Discovery Science in Canada, and Science in the UK and US.) The program is produced in the Canadian province of Quebec by Productions MAJ, Inc.

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List of To the Manor Born episodes

The following is a list of episodes for the British sitcom To the Manor Born, that first aired on BBC1 from 30 September 1979 to 29 November 1981, and for a one-off special on 25 December 2007.

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List of unproduced Disney animated shorts and feature films

This is a list of unmade and unreleased animated shorts and features by The Walt Disney Company.

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List of watchmakers

This chronological list of famous watchmakers is a list of those who influenced the development of horology or gained iconic status by their creations.

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List of Zeke and Luther episodes

The following is a list of episodes for the Disney XD sitcom Zeke and Luther.

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Ljungby

Ljungby is the central locality of Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden, with 15,785 inhabitants in 2015.

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Lords of Time

Lords of Time is an interactive fiction computer game designed by Sue Gazzard and released by Level 9 Computing in 1983.

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Lost and found

A lost and found (American English) or lost property (British English), or lost articles (also Canadian English) is an office in a public building or area where people can go to retrieve lost articles that may have been found by others.

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Lumber Jack-Rabbit

Lumber Jack-Rabbit is a 1953 3-D Looney Tunes animated comedy short film directed by Chuck Jones and featuring Bugs Bunny.

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Magic Circle Club

The Magic Circle Club was an award-winning Australian children's television show, produced at ATV Channel 0 (now ATV-10) from 23 January 1965 to 1967.

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Maria Mitchell Association

The Maria Mitchell Association is a private non-profit organization on the island of Nantucket off the coast of Massachusetts.

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Martinsville Speedway

Martinsville Speedway is an International Speedway Corporation-owned NASCAR stock car racing track located in Henry County, in Ridgeway, Virginia, just to the south of Martinsville.

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Master clock

A master clock is a precision clock that provides timing signals to synchronise slave clocks as part of a clock network.

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Master Humphrey's Clock

Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens and published from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841.

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McLean's Mansion

McLean's Mansion (originally Holly Lea) is a homestead in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Mette Magrete Tvistman

Mette Magrete Tvistman (1741, Frørup – 9 February 1827, Snejbjerg) was a Danish artist (clockmaker).

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Michelangelo Sapiano

Michelangelo Sapiano (March 19, 1826 – December 2, 1912) was a Maltese clock maker and inventor born in Mqabba, Malta.

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Mora clock

Gustavian Mora clocks are a type of longcase clock which were made in, and derived their name from, the town of Mora in Dalarna province, Sweden.

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Morbier

Morbier is a commune in the Jura department in Franche-Comté in eastern France.

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Morez

Morez is a former commune of the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

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Movement (clockwork)

In horology, a movement, also known as a caliber, is the mechanism of a clock or watch, as opposed to the case, which encloses and protects the movement, and the face, which displays the time.

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Museum of Royal Worcester

The Museum of Royal Worcester (formerly Worcester Porcelain Museum and Dyson Perrins Museum) is a ceramics museum located in the Royal Worcester porcelain factory's former site in Worcester, England.

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Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

The Museum of the History of Science in Broad Street, Oxford, England, holds a leading collection of scientific instruments from Middle Ages to the 19th century.

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My Grandfather's Clock

"Grandfather's Clock" is a song written in 1876 by Henry Clay Work, the author of "Marching Through Georgia".

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Nationality Rooms

The Nationality Rooms are a collection of 30 classrooms in the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning depicting and donated by the national and ethnic groups that helped build the city of Pittsburgh.

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Neasa Ní Chianáin

Neasa Ní Chianáin is an Irish documentary filmmaker, best known for her 2016 film In Loco Parentis/School Life which premiered at IDFA and Sundance Film Festivals.

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Neckar

The Neckar is a river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse.

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Nels Johnson

Nels Johnson was a clockmaker in Manistee, Michigan, United States.

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Neo Tokyo (film)

, also titled Manie-Manie on its title card, is a 1987 anime science fiction anthology film produced by Project Team Argos and Madhouse.

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Nicholas Parsons

Christopher Nicholas Parsons (born 10 October 1923) is an English radio and television presenter and actor.

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Ninety Years Without Slumbering

"Ninety Years Without Slumbering" is episode 132 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

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Norah Head Light

Norah Head Light is an active lighthouse located at Norah Head, a headland on the Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia, close to Toukley.

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Nostell Priory

Nostell Priory is a Palladian house located in Nostell, near Crofton close to Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, approached by the Doncaster road from Wakefield.

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Obrenović Villa

The Obrenović Villa (Вила Обреновића, Vila Obrenovića) or Villa Zlatni Breg (Вила Златни брег, Vila Zlatni breg) in Smederevo, Serbia, was a summerhouse of the royal Obrenović dynasty.

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Ogre Tribe Org

The is a fictional race of Oni born from the sadness and madness of humans from the Japanese Super Sentai series Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger.

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Oval Office grandfather clock

The Seymour tall case clock in the White House, more commonly known as the Oval Office grandfather clock, is an longcase clock, made of mahogany between 1795–1805 in Boston by John and Thomas Seymour, and has been located in the Oval Office since 1975.

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Oystering

Oystering or oyster veneer is a decorative form of veneering, a type of parquetry.

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Paradise Inn (Washington)

Paradise Inn is a historic hotel built in 1916 at on the south slope of Mount Rainier in Mount Rainier National Park in Washington, United States.

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Pendulum

A pendulum is a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely.

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Pendulum clock

A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element.

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Peter Stretch

Peter Stretch (October 14, 1670 – September 11, 1746) was among the most prominent early American clockmakers and among the first makers of scientific instruments in America.

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Peter Tham

Tham Wing Fai (born in 1948) was a Singaporean stockbroker and the director of Pan-Electric Industries.

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Phantom Manor

Phantom Manor is an attraction located in Frontierland at Disneyland Park in Disneyland Paris.

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Pink Panic

Pink Panic is the 26th cartoon produced in the Pink Panther series.

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Pogo (comic strip)

Pogo is the title and central character of a long-running daily American comic strip, created by cartoonist Walt Kelly (1913–1973) and distributed by the Post-Hall Syndicate.

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Portrush railway station

Portrush railway station is the terminus of the Coleraine-Portrush railway line and serves the seaside town of Portrush, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Powderham Castle

Powderham Castle is a fortified manor house situated within the parish and former manor of Powderham, within the former hundred of Exminster, Devon, about south of the city of Exeter and mile (0.4 km) north-east of the village of Kenton, where the main public entrance gates are located.

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Presidency of Warren G. Harding

The presidency of Warren G. Harding began on March 4, 1921, when Warren G. Harding was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended when he died on August 2, 1923, a span of days.

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Pullstring

A pullstring (pull string, pull-string), pullcord (pull cord, pull-cord), or pullchain (pull-chain, pull chain) is a string, cord, or chain wound on a spring-loaded spindle that engages a mechanism when it is pulled.

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Rønne

Rønne is the largest town on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.

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Ricardo Brennand Institute

The Ricardo Brennand Institute (in Portuguese Instituto Ricardo Brennand, IRB) is a cultural institution located in the city of Recife, Brazil.

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Ridgeway Clocks

Ridgeway Clocks is a division of Howard Miller Company, and is a producer of longcase clocks, mantle clocks, and wall clocks.

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Riverfront Park (Spokane, Washington)

Riverfront Park is a public park in the northwest United States, in downtown Spokane, Washington.

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Roedde House Museum

The Roedde House Museum is a late-Victorian home located at 1415 Barclay Street in Vancouver, Canada.

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Samuel Harding (cabinetmaker)

Samuel Harding (died 1758) was an 18th-century American cabinetmaker, remembered for his Queen Anne style furniture and for the interior architectural ornament of Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Sargent and Greenleaf

Sargent and Greenleaf, more commonly known among Safe and Vault technician circles as S&G, is a U.S. company that manufactures combination locks, key-operated safe and safe deposit box locks, high security military padlocks, and associated equipment.

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Scaredy Cat

Scaredy Cat is a 1948 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and starring Mel Blanc.

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Seconds pendulum

A seconds pendulum is a pendulum whose period is precisely two seconds; one second for a swing in one direction and one second for the return swing, a frequency of 1/2 Hz.

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Seth Thomas Clock Company

The Seth Thomas Clock Company was founded by Seth Thomas and began producing clocks in 1813.

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Simon Willard clocks

Simon Willard clocks were produced in Massachusetts in the towns of Grafton and Roxbury, near Boston, by Simon Willard (April 3, 1753 – August 30, 1848), a celebrated U.S. clockmaker.

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Skolfield–Whittier House

The Skolfield–Whittier House is a Victorian museum of the Pejepscot Historical Society, located at 161 Park Row in Brunswick, Maine.

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Stars over Texas

"Stars over Texas" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Tracy Lawrence.

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Stokes wave

In fluid dynamics, a Stokes wave is a non-linear and periodic surface wave on an inviscid fluid layer of constant mean depth.

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STP 500

The STP 500 is an annual 500-lap Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series stock car race held at the Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia.

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Striking clock

A striking clock (also known as chiming clock) is a clock that sounds the hours audibly on a bell or gong.

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TARDIS

The TARDIS ("Time And Relative Dimension In Space") is a fictional time machine and spacecraft that appears in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who and its various spin-offs.

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TGIF (ABC)

TGIF is the name of a defunct American prime time television programming block that aired on ABC, initially from 1989 to 2000.

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The Dark Is Rising Sequence

The Dark Is Rising is a series of five contemporary fantasy novels for older children and young adults, written by the English author Susan Cooper and published 1965 to 1977.

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The Funky Phantom

The Funky Phantom is a Saturday morning cartoon, produced for Hanna-Barbera Productions by Australian production company Air Programs International in 1971 for ABC.

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The Haunted Mansion

The Haunted Mansion is a dark ride attraction located at Disneyland Park (Disneyland Resort), Magic Kingdom, and Tokyo Disneyland.

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The House (The Keys to the Kingdom)

The House is a domain that serves as the center of the universe in The Keys to the Kingdom series by Australian author Garth Nix.

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The Keeper of Traken

The Keeper of Traken is the sixth serial of the 18th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 31 January to 21 February 1981.

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The Last Warning

The Last Warning is a 1929 American mystery horror film directed by Paul Leni, and starring Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, and Margaret Livingston.

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The Master (Doctor Who)

The Master is a recurring character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its associated spin-off works.

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The Miz

Michael Gregory Mizanin (born October 8, 1980) is an American professional wrestler, actor and media personality currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name The Miz.

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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (Nussknacker und Mausekönig) is a story written in 1816 by German author E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls.

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The Play That Goes Wrong

The Play That Goes Wrong is a play by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre Company.

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The Plumber (1933 film)

The Plumber, mistakenly called Oswald the Plumber in other media, is a Walter Lantz animated short which features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

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The Smurflings

The Smurflings (original French title: Les P'tits Schtroumpfs) is the thirteenth album of the original French-language Smurfs comic series created by Belgian artist Peyo.

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The Super Globetrotters

The Super Globetrotters is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions.

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The Trouble with Mr. Bean

"The Trouble with Mr.

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Thicker than Water (1935 film)

Thicker than Water is a short film starring Laurel and Hardy, directed by James W.Horne, produced by Hal Roach, and released in 1935 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Thomas Tompion

Thomas Tompion (1639–1713) was an English clockmaker, watchmaker and mechanician who is still regarded to this day as the Father of English Clockmaking.

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Thomas Wayne

Thomas Wayne, MD is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Batman.

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Timothy Mason (clockmaker)

Timothy Mason (1695–1734) was a clockmaker based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England.

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Tom's Midnight Garden

Tom's Midnight Garden is a children's fantasy novel by Philippa Pearce.

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Totnes

Totnes is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Tubular bells

Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family.

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Two and a Half Men (season 7)

The seventh season of Two and a Half Men premiered in the United States on September 21, 2009, and in Australia on September 28, 2009.

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Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects.

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Vision On

Vision On was a British children's television programme, shown on BBC1 from 1964 to 1976 and designed specifically for children with hearing impairment.

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Washington Governor's Mansion

The Washington Governor's Mansion is the official residence of the governor of Washington.

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West Michigan

West Michigan and Western Michigan are terms for an arbitrary region in the U.S. state of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

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Whittington chimes

Whittington chimes is the name of a clock chime melody, also called St. Mary's.

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Wilhelm Maybach

(9 February 1846 – 29 December 1929) was an early German engine designer and industrialist.

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Willard Brothers

All Willard Brothers were born at their modest family farm in Grafton, Massachusetts, successively between 1743 and 1755.

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William B. Cornwell

William Benjamin Cornwell (November 25, 1864 – April 8, 1926) was an American lawyer, businessperson, newspaper editor and publisher, and railroad and timber executive in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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William Stumbels

William Stumbels lived and worked as a clockmaker in Totnes, Devon, from around 1700 to 1769.

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Wilson desk

The Wilson desk is a large mahogany desk used by Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the Oval Office as their Oval Office desk.

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Winder

Winder may refer to.

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Winterhalder & Hofmeier (clocks)

Winterhalder and Hofmeier (clocks) goes back to Winterhalder Uhrenfabrik in the Black Forest, a clock manufacturer from 1810.

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Wise Children

Wise Children (1991) was the last novel written by Angela Carter.

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Woos Whoopee

Woos Whoopee (sometimes referred to as Felix The Cat in Woos Whoopee or Felix Woos Whoopee) is a surreal, animated 1928 Felix the Cat silent short subject produced by Otto Messmer and Pat Sullivan.

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1670 in science

The year 1670 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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References

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