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  2. Ship's bell - Wikipedia

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    Instead, there are eight bells, one for each half-hour of a four-hour watch. In the age of sailing, watches were timed with a 30-minute hourglass. ... Three bells 2 1 ...

  3. Watchkeeping - Wikipedia

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    Unlike civil clock bells, the strikes of a ship's bell do not accord to the number of the hour. Instead, there are eight bells, one for each half-hour of a four-hour watch. Bells would be struck every half-hour, and in a pattern of pairs for easier counting, with any odd bells at the end of the sequence.

  4. Striking clock - Wikipedia

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    The Kremlin Clock on the Moscow Kremlin rings in 2012.. The most basic sort of striking clock simply sounds a bell once every hour; this is called a passing strike clock. . Passing strike was simple to implement mechanically; all that must be done is to attach a cam to a shaft that rotates once per hour; the cam raises and then lets a hammer fall that strikes t

  5. Change ringing - Wikipedia

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    For example, while six bells have 720 permutations, eight bells have 40,320; furthermore, 10! = 3,628,800, and 12! = 479,001,600. Estimating two seconds for each change (a reasonable pace), one finds that while an extent on six bells can be accomplished in half an hour, an extent on eight bells should take nearly twenty-two and a half hours.

  6. Bells of Notre-Dame de Paris - Wikipedia

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    The roof bells struck the first two bells for each quarter hour, then marked the number of hours on the third bell. The roof bells were largely decommissioned as a striking clock in the 1980s as they were perceived to be disruptive during services.

  7. A multimillion-dollar mystery: Who really wrote the holiday ...

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    The single remains a staple on radio, too, racking up over 40,000 spins each year since 2018 — an increase from the 30,000 spins per year early in the 2010s. Bobby Helms circa 1955. (GAB Archive ...

  8. Clock chime - Wikipedia

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    Quarter bells are the bells that the clock mechanism strikes on each passing quarter of the hour. Often, as in the case of Big Ben , a different tune is played for each quarter. This enables people to be able to tell the time, without actually having to be within sight of the clock face.

  9. 3 ways to tell if an Indian restaurant is actually amazing ...

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    For North Indian cuisine, Patel loves sarson ka saag — a Punjabi dish of mustard greens cooked with spices — and the lamb kebabs of Uttar Pradesh.