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Ring In The New Year

HY READ THE time when you can listen to it? And with that rather preposterous notion, horologists started devising ways to sound out the time for both pragmatic and artistic endeavours. The first bell clocks that chimed the hours to notify entire villages of the time surfaced in Italy in the 13th century. By the 15th century, master

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