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The History of Timekeeping

You're Dead to Me

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What Is a Clock?

The word clock comes from words that mean bell, so like closh or glocker or clocker. For thousands of years, humans have needed to mark time - it's a universal human activity. So i think of the word clock to mean any device used by humans to track the passage of time. S we don't need the tick talk, which is goo beause i'm a middle aged man, yhou can't dance.

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