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2. Hamilton Watch Complex - Wikipedia

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   In 1980, the Hamilton Watch Company was renamed Hamilton Technology and was moved out of the complex into downtown Lancaster. [8] A proposal was put forth in 1981 by a Philadelphia -based real estate developer to convert the complex into 202 apartments and 61 townhouses , but it fell through; its failure being blamed on "high interest rates and ...

3. Widow's walk - Wikipedia

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   A widow's walk, also known as a widow's watch or roofwalk, is a railed rooftop platform often having an inner cupola/turret frequently found on 19th-century North American coastal houses. The name is said to come from the wives of mariners , who would watch for their spouses' return, often in vain as the ocean took their lives, leaving the ...

4. Dog watch - Wikipedia

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   A dog watch is a work shift, also known as a "watch", in a maritime watch system that is half the length of a standard watch period. This is typically formed by splitting a single four-hour watch period between 16:00 and 20:00 (4 pm and 8 pm) to form two two-hour dog watches, with the "first" dog watch from 16:00 to 18:00 (4 pm to 6 pm) and the "second" or "last" dog watch from 18:00 to 20:00 ...

5. Ship's bell - Wikipedia

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   Each watch would take its turn with the essential activities of manning the helm, navigating, trimming sails, and keeping a lookout. The hours between 16:00 and 20:00 are so arranged because that watch (the "dog watch") was divided in two. The odd number of watches aimed to give each person a different watch each day; it also allowed the entire ...

6. Condominium - Wikipedia

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   A condominium (or condo for short) is an ownership regime in which a building (or group of buildings) is divided into multiple units that are either each separately owned, or owned in common with exclusive rights of occupation by individual owners.

7. Thomas Mercer Chronometers - Wikipedia

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   Thomas’s father, Richard Mercer, was a sailmaker, so Thomas had the horological and the nautical in his career ancestry. The Shackleton Chronometer. Thomas moved to Liverpool to continue working as a watchmaker in 1843, and thence to London in 1854, to buy a one-way ticket to the USA, in search of new and better prospects.