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The History of Timekeeping
You're Dead to Me
The Sundials Are a Big Deal
In the ancient world, there's quite a famous time when the romans show up in sicily. They nick a sundial with an oman and they're very proud of it. And that was rome's first public sundial. It was its first clock tower. The romans became obsessed by these things. When you think of technology, you're not thinking of what i'm looking at right now. This looks like some kind of fossil of a shell. But, i mean, it's cool. Like, if i don't see the little actual dial on that, but it's kind of got like, a scale measure. I decided the sun dials are,
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