Watches

Wired - Residents can use these “primitives,” or prims, to make anything a cathedral, a pocket watch, even a sports car. Just tweak their shape and size, apply colors and textures to their surfaces, and program them to perform different actions. The

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Golf For Women - My favorite memento from a life in golf is a cheap pocket watch. I received it for winning the Columbia University golf team’s intrasquad tournament. The watch stopped working long ago, but it still provides a sense of time, reminding me of 5-a.m

Love runs deep for the game, from one generation to the next
Age - We knew catching was important because it was one of the few times Dad put his pipe in his pocket. “Watch the ball,” he would say, and throw it to where our tiny hands were waiting. “Watch the ball,” he’d say again, almost liturgically, in his

Good news for college graduates of 2007: The job market is more promising than ever for young professionals entering the work force. (PRWeb Jan 8, 2007)

Vintage guitars sell for more than a song 
If you’re not interested in vintage guitars, fishing lures or iron doorstops, you must be surprised at the high prices serious collectors are paying for these items. Each is a special collecting niche and has its own group of collectors.

Group showcases clocks of all sorts 
Darold Hanson pointed to the wrist of Margie Borzi and asked, “What kind of watch is that,” as she took an ornate gold pocket watch from her purse…

Mars Today - The Beagle-2 lander travels attached to one side of the spacecraft, folded up rather like a very large pocket watch. Arrival at Mars is scheduled for late December this year, when Beagle 2 will land while the orbiter is entering its orbit

Marking a milestone
Hawk Eye - Members of Boy Scout Troop 53 were among them, and the awarded Patterson with a personalized Eagle Scout coin and a pocket watch. “(We wanted to recognize him because) it’s his 100th birthday for one thing,” said Randy Cary, Troop 53 scout master

Hermitage employee walked out with tsarist treasures
Guardian Unlimited - in St Petersburg heard how Mrs Zavadskaya and her husband Nikolai pulled off the ultimate inside job, stealing 77 items from the museum’s collection of Russian treasures. According to prosecutors, the couple made off with icons, a Swiss pocket watch

Loading… The closest I can remember becoming stranded in a true wilderness area was in the 1970s. Just out of college, I wanted to lease a remote cottage site in Labrador.

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Concert brings in $4,000 for Disney trip 
FLORENCE Reminiscent of a campfire on the prairie, where hay bales stacked the floor, four acts warmed the stage Saturday during the final concert of the Winter Western Roundup.

More by Michael Guerin 
Comeback king Sly Flyin is the latest casualty from next month’s A$500,000 Hunter Cup. But even with the Auckland pacer out of the great race New Zealanders dominate the latest betting market.

Daily Telegraph - A chronometer (ship’s timekeeper), china bed pan, egg cups and china cups recovered in 2000 from the Avalanche, a 1160-tonne fully rigged clipper that sank near Lyme Regis in 1877 with the loss of 89 lives. A pocket watch and brass razor case

Hermitage employee walked out with tsarist treasures
Guardian Unlimited - in St Petersburg heard how Mrs Zavadskaya and her husband Nikolai pulled off the ultimate inside job, stealing 77 items from the museum’s collection of Russian treasures. According to prosecutors, the couple made off with icons, a Swiss pocket watch

Snowden honored for service
Pomeroy Daily Sentinel - Beth Sergent/photo - Robert Snowden (third from left) receives recognition and a pocket watch for his 17 years of service to the Leading Creek Conservancy District. Congratulating Snowden are (from left) Randy Butcher, LCCD board member, Todd Snowden

FLORENCE Reminiscent of a campfire on the prairie, where hay bales stacked the floor, four acts warmed the stage Saturday during the final concert of the Winter Western Roundup.

Time is of the essence 
A WATCH is a small portable timepiece or clock that displays the time and sometimes the day, date, month and year. In past centuries, these often took the form of pocket watches, which today are seldom carried or worn.

The Press Republican - Plattsburgh, NY 
Loading… The closest I can remember becoming stranded in a true wilderness area was in the 1970s. Just out of college, I wanted to lease a remote cottage site in Labrador.

Golf For Women - My favorite memento from a life in golf is a cheap pocket watch. I received it for winning the Columbia University golf team’s intrasquad tournament. The watch stopped working long ago, but it still provides a sense of time, reminding me of 5-a.m

Down in Maine
Irish Emigrant - As the top of the hour approached, he pulled his Chicago-made, gold-plated pocket watch from a waistcoat that hung on the bedpost. As Big Ben chimed, he’d ask us to describe the exact positions of his watch hands. His was the timepiece by which every

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Tribune - For a maiden project, The Pocket Watch is delightful and it is not without reason that it won the best short story award at IBDAA Media Arts and Film Festival held in April this year. The film has everything in place - a sensitive script

Love runs deep for the game, from one generation to the next
Age - We knew catching was important because it was one of the few times Dad put his pipe in his pocket. “Watch the ball,” he would say, and throw it to where our tiny hands were waiting. “Watch the ball,” he’d say again, almost liturgically, in his

Australia’s greatest young pacer is coming to Auckland and he is bringing a mate. Lombo Pocket Watch confirmed his Woodlands Great Northern Derby campaign when he thrashed leading Kiwi 3-year-old Fergiemack in the Victoria Derby at Moonee Valley in Melbourne on Saturday night.

Hell is for children 
Pan’s Labyrinth tells a brilliant, dark fairy tale… By Felicia Feaster.

Civil War Exhibits: Retracing footprints across our nation’s soul 
A friend, a retired Army colonel, tells the story of a fellow officer who in youth proudly adorned his office with portraits of Robert E. Lee and other military heroes of the Confederacy.

Police briefs - 1/3/07 
RIVERSIDE Police charged a Delanco man early Monday with breaking into a house in the 800 block of Fairview Street and stealing jewelry, firearms and cash.

Mickey News - During the performance, the audience roared when Dick Warwick recited his poem about a chicken stampede, then smiled when he quoted his poem about the pocket watch his grandfather purchased. The Sons and Brothers music brought the audience to its

Vintage guitars sell for more than a song
Everett Herald - It looks like a giant pocket watch. The face is white with a red center picturing a cartoon drawing of a girl with curly hair. The name “Caryl Richards” is printed in a handwriting style just below the Roman numeral XII. The maker’s name, United

Himachal ADGP Thind joins investigation
Tribune - These items include garwi, large-sized metal glasses, muffler, pens, passport, gold pocket watch, historical documents, including his correspondence with the British rulers and national leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru on burning topics

Mars Today - The “pocket watch” design of Beagle 2 ensured that it would turn upright irrespective of which way up the little lander fell. After the onboard computer sent commands to release the clamp band and open the lid, the way would be clear to deploy the

A newfound interest in camping
Baltimore Sun - My husband and I had a kind of O. Henry Christmas. You remember the story. The woman cuts off her long hair and sells it to buy her husband a chain for his pocket watch. He sells his pocket watch to buy his love a comb for her hair. Our Christmas was

Tribune News Service
Tribune - For a maiden project, The Pocket Watch is delightful and it is not without reason that it won the best short story award at IBDAA Media Arts and Film Festival held in April this year. The film has everything in place - a sensitive script