Originally published by Jack Forster on Hodinkee. The first thing most of us notice about clocks and watches when we learn to tell time, is that the hands turn clockwise – the habit of perceiving ...

FARGO — Early clocks were sundials, and the earliest known sundials date from 1500 BCE and were made in Egypt and Babylonia, both north of the equator, which is important. A sundial is a stick mounted ...

What if your wall clock or wristwatch's hands began moving anti-clockwise? The world around you might turn upside down, and your schedule might go for a toss. But life for hundreds of villagers in ...

Not all of them do. The clock in Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, decorated by Paolo Uccello, travels anti-clockwise. SIR – Roundabouts (or carousels as they are known elsewhere) go round clockwise ...

For those of us who still use analogue clocks, the passage of time is marked by a continuous process in which the hands move downwards to the right and then upwards to the left when they reach the ...

The clock displayed on the Bolivian Congress building, located in the city of La Paz, has been re-set to run in reverse. Its hands turn left and the numbers have been inverted to go from one to twelve ...

The clock on the facade of the building housing the Bolivian congress in La Paz has been reversed. Its hands turn left and the numbers have been inverted to go from one to 12 anti-clockwise. Bolivian ...

Nothing says “Bolivian President Evo Morales” like a radically leftist but ultimately inconsequential government policy, but the South American leader may have veered a bit into self-caricature with ...

The Ritual of Aarti and Its Clockwise Tradition When visiting a temple, you may have observed priests conducting aarti, a ...