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A large clock hand stolen in a student prank has been returned to ... with cardboard replicas. Baker kept the hour hand, while his accomplice held onto the minute hand. Baker’s daughter, Trixie Baker, ...
O'clock is a way of telling the exact hour on a clock. We say "o'clock" when the minute hand (the long hand) points to the number 12 on the clock. When the minute hand points straight up to 12 ...
A large clock hand stolen in a student prank has been ... it rained," said his daughter Trixie Baker who inherited the hour hand from her father when he died in 1999. Late last year she returned ...
When is it half past the hour? When the minute hand of a clock (the longer hand) has travelled from 12 halfway around the circle to point at 6 this is half past the hour. The hour hand (the ...
In 1970, The Courier Journal calculated the tip of the Colgate clock's minute hand travels more than half-a-mile each day, and about 200 miles each year. The tip of the hour hand travels at a much ...
The hour hand of a chapel clock that was taken in a student prank during the 1930s has been returned to a Cambridge college. The perpetrators of the prank were not known until now. Only the minute ...
The missing hour hand of the chapel clock at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge has been returned around 100 years after it was taken in a student prank (Gonville and Caius College/PA ...