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Alarm Clock
Alarm is from the Italian alla army, meaning to arms. It would be a rallying cry to soldiers to pick up their weapons and prepare to fight the enemy. The alarm clock that kind of annoys us from our bedside table actually has quite profound origins really. I don't have an alarm because it's on my mobile phone but we used to have a rather handsome grandfather clock in the hallway until his son broke it with a high jump. He attached a piece of string from this the alarm,. the grandfather clock from the door of the alarm clock to the banisters to jump over as a kind of... you know, anyway, he created a high jump and he tripped
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