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The History of Timekeeping (Radio Edit)
You're Dead to Me
What Is a Clock?
The word for a star comes from words that mean bell, so like cloche or glocker or clocker. In terms of the technology of timekeeping, the earliest technology we've got evidence for is in the Bronze Age. The Egyptians and Sumerians were both hot for duodecimal mathematics. They find it easy to work with.
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