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 photo: david lindley everyone who visits prague knows to visit the astronomical clock to see what happens when the hour chimes. being good tourists ourselves we trooped down expecting a big bell display, something spectacular to match the grandiose frontage. The hour approached, expectation built along with the crowd and the glorious moment arrived: the skeleton of death turned his hourglass and started tolling a single (and obviously tiny) bell, a window opened and the twelve apostles moved past it and then, the great climax, a cock starts crowing. and that was that. in any event it is still an amazing thing to see, to think that parts of the clock are 600 years old. The photo here shows death and a turk, reflecting two of the medieval populations main worries of the day what with plague ravishing the land and the turks threatening europe from the east. curiously both of these are current issues in europe today with turkey negotiating to join the european union and the threat of bird flu from the east. | |
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