Join me on this exciting woodworking project as I attempt to build a cuckoo clock out of wood from scratch. I've always been fascinated by these intricate timepieces, but I've never tried my hand at ...

When the Romans pushed over the Alps 2,000 years ago into the forested mountain range running through Germany's southwestern tip, they named it the silva nigra—black forest—after its moody glades of ...

In central Slovakia, the country’s largest cuckoo clock now marks the hour with folk musicians, blending superstition, music and craft. An old saying has it that if someone hears a cuckoo calling from ...

Some of the items on display at the new cuckoo clock exhibition at the Irish Museum of Time in Waterford. Photo Patrick Browne. This autumn, as the clocks fall back on Sunday, October 26, the world’s ...

“Let's be more like Switzerland!” exclaimed one excited activist at the Lib-Dem conference this week. I had a momentary mental flash of the stunt-happy Sir Ed Davey flying out of a cuckoo clock ...

STURBRIDGE — Sturbridge is seemingly synonymous with history, from its first settlers in 1644 to the opening in 1946 of Old Sturbridge Village, which welcomes visitors to experience life in a rural ...

Furnishings from the former Karl Ratzsch's Restaurant in Milwaukee are being sold in an online auction. The historic German restaurant closed in 2017 after operating for several decades. Auction items ...

It's an interesting fact that despite being kissing cousins, clock makers and watch makers occupy very different positions in the world of timekeeping. There are hundreds of both around the globe but ...

George cheers as the cuckoo emerges from the floral clock at Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. In 1995, teacher George Thomson took his P7 class more than 100 miles from their school in Aberdeen to ...

In 1995, teacher George Thomson took his P7 class more than 100 miles from their school in Aberdeen to see the wooden cuckoo at Edinburgh's famous floral clock. But much to his horror, when they got ...