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White Christmas is a 1954 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 94 and signed "Moses".It was in the collection of Irving Berlin. [1]It shows the artist's impression of an idealized white snowy Christmas, with children playing in the snow and ice-skating on a pond, horse-drawn sleighs on the roads, and a man dragging a pine tree towards a house.
"Past Three O'Clock" (or "Past Three a Clock") is an English Christmas carol, loosely based on the call of the traditional London waits, musicians and watchmen who patrolled during the night, using a musical instrument to show they were on duty and to mark the hours. [1]
The Blackboy Clock is a clock in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. It is a jacquemart (Jack clock), with a Black boy figurine with a club that strikes the hours. [1]
Longcase clocks (grandfather clocks) typically use Roman numerals for the hours. Clocks using only Arabic numerals first began to appear in the mid-18th century. [citation needed] The clock face is so familiar that the numbers are often omitted and replaced with unlabeled graduations (marks), particularly in the case of watches. Occasionally ...
School bell visible in St Johns School, Sydney, Australia (1872) Typical School bell in Austria (1978-2021) Sound of a School bell in Austria The ringing of a school bell announces important times to a school's students and staff, such as marking the beginnings and ends of the school day, class periods, and breaks.
Al-Jazari's candle clock. Al-Jazari described a candle clock in 1206. [4] It included a dial to display the time and, for the first time, employed a bayonet fitting, a fastening mechanism still used in modern times. [5] The English engineer and historian Donald Routledge Hill described one of al-Jazari's candle clocks as follows:
The House with a Clock in Its Walls is a 2018 American fantasy comedy film directed by Eli Roth, based on the initial 1973 eponymous entry of the Lewis Barnavelt novel series by John Bellairs. The movie stars Jack Black , Cate Blanchett , Owen Vaccaro , Renée Elise Goldsberry , Sunny Suljic , and Kyle MacLachlan .
Elvis' Christmas Album (also reissued as It's Christmas Time) is the third studio album and first Christmas album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley on RCA Victor, LOC -1035, a deluxe limited edition, released October 15, 1957, and recorded at Radio Recorders in Hollywood. It has been reissued in numerous different formats since its ...