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Clocks

How about Spillville, Iowa? Yup. Why, you ask? Because, in the Antonín Dvorák museum (you know, the guy who wrote that "New World Symphony"), there's the Bily Clock Museum where Joseph and Frank Bily made their woodcarved clocks.

Bet you didn't know that.
Try learning about World Horology on the Internet. That's right, you can become a horologist, too! Their annual report includes this birthday cake for TIME:
cake and eat it, too!
It's a one year birthday for "CLOCKS AND TIME" on the Internet.
Hang a clock on your virtual wall!
choices available:
Don't miss the Countdown to 2000 on our TIME page...
While we're on the subject of birthdays, did you know that Jeanne Louise Calment was the human being who lived the longest? Born on February 21, 1875, she died on August 4, 1997. She remembered selling art supplies to Van Gogh, and gave up cigarettes when she was 120, not for health reasons but because she could no longer light up without asking for help.
She was famous for such phrases as "Je n'ai jamais eu qu'une seule ride et je suis assise dessus."
Wasn't that a long time to carry that crack around?

Some people thought we should have gassed her! 
Read: "Faut-il euthanasier Jeanne Calment ?" 

 R.I.P.
Jeanne Calment
1875-1997
old girl
(Click above Jeanne's photo to read more.)
According to the Guiness Book of World Records, the world's new longevity champion is a Danish-born American, Christian Mortensen, of San Rafael, California, 115 years old in 1997. Other claimants to the throne of old age include a Brazilian woman, Maria do Carmo Geronimo, who is believed to have been born in 1871, but her lack of documentation doesn't satisfy the record-keepers. If you are reading this and are older than 115 years old, please send us an email and we'll be sure to make you famous. 

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