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Your grandmother's cuckoo clock may become Unesco World Heritage

As the German UNESCO Commission reports on its website, while watchmaking has been on a national list since 2021, the ...
The Herald-Times

Monroe County Courthouse clock winders go behind-the-hands

Every Monday morning, the clock atop the Monroe County Courthouse rings nine times. It’s just after that ends that the clock winders’ work begins. Positioned above the dome of stained glass that is ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Past, Present, and Future of the Cuckoo Clock

“Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, ...
The New York Times

An Irish Clock Museum Welcomes the Cuckoo

Once hundreds of clocks are hung in a new exhibition space, “it’s going to be like stepping into the Black Forest.” By Sandra Jordan Reporting from Waterford, Ireland “How often do you get the chance ...
Yahoo

Worcester County Wonders: New England's largest cuckoo clock chimes in Sturbridge

STURBRIDGE — Sturbridge is seemingly synonymous with history, from its first settlers in 1644 to the opening in 1946 of Old Sturbridge Village, which welcomes visitors to experience life in a rural ...
BBC

Man, 90, gets floral clock cuckoo wish after 30-year wait

George cheers as the cuckoo emerges from the floral clock at Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. In 1995, teacher George Thomson took his P7 class more than 100 miles from their school in Aberdeen to ...