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This site will work and look better in a browser that supports web standards , but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device, including PDAs. Featured Articles Pilgrim Biographies Myths Debunked Notable Descendants ... Commemorations Feature Thanksgiving on the Net: Roast Bull with Cranberry Sauce Part 1 Thanksgiving on the Net: Roast Bull with Cranberry Sauce Part 2 Thanksgiving on the Net: Roast Bull with Cranberry Sauce Part 3 Comparing Plymouth and Jamestown ... Application of the pendulum to the clock Keeping Time In 1627 Plymouth Colony by Stacy B.C. Wood, Jr., SMDPA How do you suppose our Pilgrim ancestors knew what time it was? Did they have wristwatches? How about grandfather clocks? There was no such thing as a wristwatch in those days, although Queen Elizabeth I is said to have at times worn a small watch as a bracelet. In fact, the wristwatch didn't really come into use until the tile of the First World War around 1916. Watches before then were carried in a pocket and often attached to a chain to prevent theft. 1640 Lantern Clock Image courtesy of Bogoff.com

25. Independent Lens . KEEPING TIME . Learn More | PBS keeping time The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton Reflections in Black A history of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/keepingtime/more.html

The Film Milt Hinton Jazz The People The Film MiltHinton.com Milt Hinton The New York Times: Milt Hinton, Dean of Jazz Bassists is Dead at 90 The New York Times Jazz Odyssey: A Retrospective of Photographs By Milt Hinton Southeast Queens Press: A Lifetime of Love and Jazz Milt Hinton Read a biography of Hinton from Sony Music on this site from Baruch College, where he often taught jazz workshops. Bass Line: The Stories and Photographs of Milt Hinton By Milt Hinton and David G. Berger (Temple University Press, 1988) OverTime: The Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton By Milt Hinton, David G. Berger and Holly Maxson (Pomegranate Artbooks, 1996) Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present By Deborah Willis (W.W. Norton, 2000) Old Man Time Milt Hinton (Chiaroscuro Jazz, 1989) This two-CD set features classics recorded with jazz greats such as Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton and Cab Calloway. The Judge at His Best Milt Hinton (Chiaroscuro Jazz, 2001) This album includes songs that Hinton recorded between 1973 and 1995. top Jazz PBS: Jazz: A Film By Ken Burns The companion Web site for this PBS documentary is akin to Jazz 101: packed with audio clips, maps, a timeline that places jazz in the context of American history, artist discographies and profiles on jazz greats, including

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Tell us what you think. Selected submissions will be posted here, so check back regularly. Owen Russell Yellowknife, NWT, Canada I can hardly express how thoroughly I enjoyed this portrayal of the complete depth behind the man that was, and still lives on, as Milt Hinton. The accurate representation of the times and forces that existed to shape the course of his life was an incredibly raw and refreshingly not over glamorized view on contemporary jazz in early segregated America. An excellent job was done juxtaposing the elegant grace and subtle presence of his photographs with the resonating and powerfully apparent style of bass he played yet both artistic ventures were shown rooted within their truth and inspiration. Pride without arrogance, the ability to cross into areas of music or society without leaving the expressionist jazz vernacular of the time and an uncanny abundance of energy that transcended a race barrier were aspects of Milt Hinton the program helped to document - as his music and photography does in spades. Highlighted marvelously, was Hinton's generousity and open resolve when supporting musicians to come into the scene after him. A true testament to the soul behind the notes that came from his bass.

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28. History Of Time Keeping In a way, the history of timepieces is the history of human progress. who hunted and gathered wild food to survive needed only crude ways to keep time. http://www.chaneyinstrument.com/Press Releases/pr10.htm

Press Releases A HISTORY OF TIMEPIECES In a way, the history of timepieces is the history of human progress. For thousands of years, people who hunted and gathered wild food to survive needed only crude ways to keep time. Archeologists have found records of lunar cycles scratched on bones from Ice Age Europe. The pillars of rock at Stonehenge in England determined solstices and other seasonal events. As people began to farm and build cities, they needed somewhat more detailed records of time. Early calendars made by people ranging from the Egyptians to the Mayans of Central America measured months and years. Such calendars made it possible for merchants to establish trade routes, cultures to develop shared religious celebrations and governments to keep records. Five or six thousand years ago, Sumeria in what is now Iraq was the first culture to develop a written language and also the first to develop a clock. Other ancient civilizations came up with ways to mark the hours of the day as they became more complex. The Washington Monument is a monument to the first clocks as well as to the first U.S. president, for obelisks were the first “shadow clocks”—clocks that measured time with lengthening shadows. The more familiar sundial, invented around 1500 B.C. was both more exact and more portable.

29. History & Info - Standard Time Began With The Railroads Standard time in the US Standard time in time zones was instituted in the US played a key role in the development of a worldwide system of keeping time. http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/d.html

First there was standard time For millennia, people have measured time based on the position of the sun - it was noon when the sun was highest in the sky. Sundials were used well into the Middle Ages, when mechanical clocks began to appear. Cities would set their town clock by measuring the position of the sun, but every city would be on a slightly different time. The time indicated by the apparent sun on a sun dial is called Apparent Solar Time, or true local time. The time shown by the fictitious sun is called Mean Solar Time, or local mean time when measured in terms of any longitudinal meridian. [For more information about clocks, see A Walk through Time Standard time begins in Britain Standard time in the US Standard time in time zones was instituted in the U.S. and Canada by the railroads on 18 November 1883. Before then, time of day was a local matter, and most cities and towns used some form of local solar time, maintained by some well-known clock (for example, on a church steeple or in a jeweler's window). The new standard time system was not immediately embraced by all, however. (The train at right is a Union locomotive used during the American Civil War, photo ca. 1861-1865.) The first man in the United States to sense the growing need for time standardization was an amateur astronomer, William Lambert, who as early as 1809 presented to Congress a recommendation for the establishment of time meridians in this country. This was not passed. Nor was the initial suggestion of Charles Dowd of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., in 1870. Dowd revised his proposal in 1872 and the revised proposal was adopted virtually unchanged by the railways of the USA and Canada eleven years later.

30. History Of Birthday Celebrations history of Birthdays. Birthday Celebrations. Before humans had a way of keeping time, no one paid much attention to the anniversary of important events, http://www.birthdayexpress.com/bexpress/planning/BirthdayCelebrations.asp

Thank you for visiting Birthday Express, the ultimate resource for kids' party supplies, birthday party planning tips and more. Our system has detected that your browser may not support Active Scripting, which is needed to shop our site. Please click here for directions on how to enable this feature on your computer. Search for Shopping Cart: contains items Ultimate Parties Kids' Party Themes First Birthday Kids' Toys ... Sale History of Birthdays Before humans had a way of keeping time, no one paid much attention to the anniversary of important events, such as birthdays. Only when ancient peoples began taking notice of the moon's cycles, did they pay attention to the changing seasons and the pattern that repeated itself over and over. Eventually, the first calendars were formulated in order to mark time changes and other special days. From this tracking system came the ability to celebrate birthdays and other significant anniversaries the same day each year. Evidence of birthday observances dates back before the rise of Christianity. In pagan cultures, people feared evil spirits - especially on their birthdays. It was a common belief that evil spirits were more dangerous to a person when he or she experienced a change in their daily life, such as turning a year older. As a result, birthdays were merry occasions celebrated with family and friends, who surrounded the person of honor with laughter and joy in order to protect them from evil. Instead of gifts, most guests brought positive thoughts and happy wishes for the upcoming year. However, if well-wishers did bring gifts, it was considered an especially good influence for the birthday person.

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Key text Published by Australian Academy of Science Sponsored by No matter which side you're on in the debate about when the new millennium begins, you'll find the history of the Western calendar fascinating. Printer-friendly version of complete topic A calendar can be defined as a systematic way of organising days into weeks, months, years, and millennia. By such ordering we know when the young Egyptian pharoah Tutankhamun died (1323 BCE Lunar calendar Humans have probably always recognised certain cycles in the passage of time. Perhaps the most obvious is that of the moon. At the start of its cycle (‘new moon’) the moon lies directly between the sun and the Earth and its illuminated face cannot be seen from the Earth. As the moon moves in its orbit around the Earth, a crescent of its illuminated face becomes visible. The crescent grows over a period of nights until the entire face can be seen: this is called ‘full moon’. The face then wanes until once more it can’t be seen from Earth. This cycle takes an average 29.530589 days. Most of the early calendars were based on this moon cycle, also known as a 'lunation'. There were all sorts of problems with such calendars, due partly to the fact that the average lunation is not a whole number. If ‘29’ were the number used to mark the lunar month, the calendar would very quickly get out of synchrony with the actual phases of the moon. The first month would be out of synchrony by about half a day and the next month by a full day.

32. Sacramento Peak Time Keeping And Sundials The history of timekeeping. The most ancient way of keeping time during the day is to see where the Sun is in the sky. If you live north of the equator, http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/sunspot/pr/answerbook/sundial.html

Time Keeping and Sundials This page contains answers to questions Mr Sunspot received about time keeping. The questions are: Is the clockwise direction of hands on a clock related to the earth's revolution around the sun? Asked by Sarah Oswald (13) of Marianna, Florida 14 August 1997 How can I make a vertical reclining sundial? Asked by Mariana of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 30 September 1996 The History of Timekeeping The most ancient way of keeping time during the day is to see where the Sun is in the sky. If you live north of the equator, then the Sun rises toward the east, reaches its highest point in the sky (culminates) due south, and sets toward the west, so it moves along the sky from left to right. Of course, there are no hour markers in the sky, so time you tell from the Sun's position in the sky is only a guess. The second most ancient way of keeping time is to watch the shadow of something like a stick or tree move along the ground. Because the Sun moves from left to right in the sky (to the north of the equator), the shadow rotates in what we now call the clockwise direction. You can put marks on the ground to indicate different hours, and then you have something that looks like a clock. Because the height of the Sun above the horizon changes all the time, the speed of the shadow's rotation varies all the time, both with the time of day and also with the seasons. This means that the "hours" of this clock (as indicated by the marks on the ground) do not keep the same length all the time.

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Keeping Time Radical History Vancouver (Coast Salish Territory) Radical Vancouver History Vancouver Squatters' Movement History Links * This website was largely inspired by the labour history walking tour guide of the Pacific Northwest Labour History Association - Massimo Passamani

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Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation in America by William J. Murtagh This popular classic on preservation in America returns to print in a revised edition as part of the distinguished Preservation Press series. Written by the first Keeper of the National Register for Historic Places, it remains the quintessential textbook of graduate and college-level courses in Historic Preservation and Architectural History. Features 75 black-and-white photographs that underline relevant issues and events in American community preservation, plus three reference appendices of legal, historical and practice information. William Murtagh, the first Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places, presents an effective portrait of the preservation movement by looking into the values underlying the efforts to safeguard America's architectural heritage, including the development of legislation and court action. A section on the National Trust for Historic Preservation explains how this private, non-profit organization created in the 1940s has expanded its services and goals parallel with changes in the national preservation movement. The Publisher From Publisher's Weekly A single volume offering a synopsis of the history of the preservation movement, an analysis of the relevant data, and a discussion of the key issues facing preservationists...informative and well written

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About themusicedge.com Contact Us i home ... check this out The China Blog: Keeping Time in China July 8, 2005 *China, here we come! MIMA Music teams up with www.themusicedge.com to bring you the low-down on music in the Orient. Should I Bring My Watch? 1 July 2005 There's a lot you can learn about a culture if you're ready to adapt to the way that they keep time. Last summer at a bus-stop in Spain, I kept checking my watch because the bus was late. A man asked me if I was nervous. You can bet that I was embarrassed because I wasn't in any hurry at all. I simply had an obsessive compulsion like most Americans who check the time - all the time. Since then I've learned to live without a watch, which has become a surprisingly liberating experience, chock-full of improvised moments. Now, as I prepare myself to depart for China tomorrow, I've decided against wearing that infamous watch. Come Sunday, July 3rd, I am going to spend a month in the Orient filming a video documentary. Can I capture the improvisational spirit in Chinese music? I hope to document the folk spirit, because I believe that its improvisational elements will bring me closer to understanding the "people's voice" that keeps the music alive. I'd like to answer some relevant questions and share my observations with you when I get there. Namely, how does the improvisational music tradition survive in China at the grassroots level? More importantly, how does that music sound? If you'd like to get a better feeling for why music is going to be my focus in China, imagine this scenario. Put yourself in the shoes of a little man from China traveling for the first time to Chehaw Station, USA. Imagine this man wandering through the boondocks without a watch. When he chances upon a back-porch, lazy-afternoon blues jam session he becomes a participant observer as soon as he starts to stomp his feet. He is a first-hand witness of an American musical tradition. The drone of the twelve-bar blues on this particular afternoon laments our country's own tragic history, and maybe this man senses it. You could rightly argue that it's possible for this man to understand the "people's voice" in America by listening to this beautiful folk tradition. Ever more significant, this musical moment connects the man at Chehaw Station to the thousands of Jimi's nationwide and the Gods they're playing for.

36. Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics Frequency Control The history of Frequency Control and Modern time keeping compiled by John Vig. From PGUE TO G-SU TO UFFC-S1953-1997 A Historical Perspective, http://www.ieee-uffc.org/index.asp?page=freqcontrol/fc_history.html&Part=5

37. Welcome To ArtWatches.com: History Of The Watch: One Of The First Watches Was Cr time is considered one of our most valuable assets. The keeping of time goes all the way back to the beginning of civilization. http://www.artwatches.com/html_pages/history.html

Botticelli Classics da Vinci Dali ... Wilton Disney SNAP!! Great watches at: Time is considered one of our most valuable assets. The keeping of time goes all the way back to the beginning of civilization. Both historians and archeologists believe that stationary and portable sun-dials were probably developed in Egypt or Mesopotamia. The oldest extant sun-dial can be found in Egypt and dates back to 1500 BCE. We know that the early Egyptians used the pyramids as well as the obelisks as a forerunner to the sundial. It is said that one of the first watches was created in Italy around 1524 CE. The main problem for portable time keeping before the 1600s was the lack of driving power. Timepieces of that era were typically driven by weights making it very difficult for portable use. The inaccuracy of timepieces in this era were very common and most watches only had one hand that had to be wound at least twice a day. It was not until 1675 CE that the implementation of a spiral balance spring changed timekeeping forever by taking timekeeping accuracy from fractions of an hour to fractions of a minute. It was then a second hand was added to the watch. At this time Roman numerals were added to mark the minutes. Eventually, due to rapid development, a watch would only have to be wound once a day instead of every twelve hours. With time came greater technology, and with the advent of better steel works to create more precise gears and springs, it didn't take very long to create an accurate pocket watch. To make sure the watch kept its accuracy over long periods of time, bearings were made from jewels (usually synthetic sapphires or rubies). By the 1850s, America was leading the race in mass volume watch production. Eventually Europe followed in the U.S.'s trend and began to produce in mass quantities as well.

38. Keeping Time: Readings In Jazz History, Robert Walser (editor) Chronologically organised, an anthology drawing on contemporary journalism, programme notes, memoirs and interviews. http://www.jazzscript.co.uk/books/antholwalser.htm

J A Z Z S C R I P T home timelines CD search book search ... contact us Keeping Time Readings In Jazz History Robert Walser (editor) Oxford University Press, 1999 Paperback. 464pp Drawing from contemporary journalism, reviews, programme notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, Keeping Time brings to life the controversies and critical issues that have accompanied every moment of jazz history. Highlighting the significance of jazz as a complex and consequential social practice as well as an art form, this book presents a multitude of ways in which people have understood and cared about jazz. It records a history not of style changes but of values, meanings, and sensibilities. Featuring sixty-two thought-provoking chapters, this unique volume gives voice to a wide range of perspectives, stressing different reactions to and uses of jazz, both within and across communities. It offers contributions from well-known figures including Jelly Roll Morton, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, Wynton Marsalis, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis; from renowned writers such as Langston Hughes, Norman Mailer and Ralph Ellison; and from critics including Leonard Feather and Gunther Schuller. Walser has selected writings that capture the passionate reactions of people who have loved, hated, supported and argued about jazz.

39. WHYY Delaware Portrait In Time: Keeping History Alive keeping history ALIVE. Old New Castle, Delaware hub to modern day town, old New Castle has adapted its identity many times since its early days. http://www.whyy.org/tv12/WHYYDelawarePortraitinTimeKeepingHistoryAlive.html

Delaware Portrait in Time made possible by a grant from Delaware Heritage Commission check out past segments: Fort Miles : Delaware's Forgotten Fortress Last Stop : Delaware's Underground Railroad ... Women Pilots in WWII Growing up Winterthur : Life on the Farm Delaware's Mayflower: The Kalmar Nyckel Exploring Buried Past Lewes Shipwreck Excavation Air date: Thursday May 19, 2005 click here to watch KEEPING HISTORY ALIVE Old New Castle, Delaware Take a stroll down the cobblestone streets of old New Castle; pass the gas lamps, the 18th century buildings of mellowed brick, the carefully tended gardens, and take a trip back in time. From Dutch fort to capital of Delaware to thriving transportation hub to modern day town, old New Castle has adapted its identity many times since its early days.

40. Keeping Time: Clockmaking In Concord, 1790-1835 keeping time is the first major exhibition to reflect on a new and significant The exhibitiona fascinating mix of craftsmanship, social history, http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/1aa/1aa584.htm

Concord Museum Concord, MA http://www.concordmuseum.org Keeping Time: Clockmaking in Concord, 1790-1835 T he Concord Museum in Concord, Massachusetts announces a ground-breaking exhibition, " Keeping Time.· Clockmaking in Concord, 1790-1835," open to the public September 8, 2000 through January 21, 2001. "Keeping Time" is the first major exhibition to reflect on a new and significant reinterpretation of New England clockmaking by focusing on one Federal-era craft community. The exhibitiona fascinating mix of craftsmanship, social history, entrepreneurship, economics, and artfeatures over thirty of the finest examples of documented Concord clocks from the Concord Museum's collection and other collections. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Concord was a thriving community, already famous throughout the young nation for its critical early role in the events leading up to the American Revolution. It was the half shire town for Middlesex County, attracting over 500 visitors to the courts twice a year, among them customers for Concord's hats, shoes, carriages and clocks. Among Concord's approximately 400 heads of households in this period, about 65% were in agriculture, 4% in commerce, and 35% in manufacturing. Of those in manufacturing, seven men headed clockmaking shops and another thirty or so were engaged in the shops or in businesses that supplied the clockmaking trade - the brass foundry, iron forge, wire-drawing mill, and a number of cabinetmaking shops. In short, the center of Concord the Milldam was a machine for the production of clocks, second only in importance to Boston's industrial Roxbury Neck, where the influential Willard family had been producing clocks since about 1785.

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