The incense clock (simplified Chinese: 香钟; traditional Chinese: 香鐘; pinyin: xiāngzhōng; Wade–Giles: hsiang-chung; lit. 'fragrance clock') is a timekeeping...
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post-Strawberry Alarm Clock incarnation broke up before any success was realized. The first and most famous single by Strawberry Alarm Clock was "Incense and Peppermints"...
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Incense and Peppermints is the debut album by psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock. Released in October 1967, it reached No. 11 on the Billboard...
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such duration timers are candle clocks, incense clocks, and the hourglass. Both the candle clock and the incense clock work on the same principle, wherein...
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Look up incense in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Incense is an aromatic biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt. The term is used for...
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"Incense and Peppermints" is a 1967 song by the American psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock. The song is officially credited as having been written...
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History of timekeeping devices (redirect from History of clocks)
Sundials and water clocks were first used in ancient Egypt c. 1200 BC and later by the Babylonians, the Greeks and the Chinese. Incense clocks were being used...
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Buddhism in China came calibrated incense sticks and incense clocks (xiangzhong 香鐘 "incense clock" or xiangyin 香印 "incense seal"). The poet Yu Jianwu (庾肩吾...
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afford expensive timepieces. The museum displays mechanical clocks, sundials and incense clocks previously owned by daimyo families. There are around 50...
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noted that there were four types of clocks in his day, the basic waterclock, the incense clock, the sundial, and the clock with 'revolving and snapping springs'...
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stepwell, indigo dye, snake and ladder, muslin, ludo, calico, Wootz steel, incense clock, shampoo, palampore, chintz, and prefabricated homes. Indian cultural...
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(Karamagara Bridge) in Cappadocia, Eastern Roman Empire By the 6th century: Incense clock in China. After 500: Charkha (spinning wheel/cotton gin) invented in...
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staff horizontal in dry air, an ancient hygrometer was made. Incense Clock: Incense clocks originated in China during the 6th century and later made their...
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common time keeping devices in China, which they listed as water clocks, incense clocks, and "other instruments ... with wheels rotated by sand as if by...
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A Japanese clock (和時計, wadokei) is a mechanical clock that has been made to tell traditional Japanese time, a system in which daytime and nighttime are...
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Wake Up...It's Tomorrow (redirect from Tomorrow (Strawberry Alarm Clock song))
success of their debut single, the psychedelic classic and number one hit, "Incense and Peppermints" and the LP that followed. Their second effort would expand...
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Mark Weitz (category Strawberry Alarm Clock members)
the Strawberry Alarm Clock was working on material for Corgan's new record label. Mark Weitz and Ed King wrote the melody for Incense and Peppermints, with...
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Clockwork (redirect from Clock work)
Clockwork refers to the inner workings of either mechanical devices called clocks and watches (where it is also called the movement) or other mechanisms that...
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Ed King (category Strawberry Alarm Clock members)
LA-based Strawberry Alarm Clock, a mid-1960s pop psychedelic rock band. The band's largest success was with the 1967 single "Incense and Peppermints", which...
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is the fourth album by American psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock, released in 1969 on Uni Records (see 1969 in music). It featured a considerably...
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Pendulum (redirect from Sympathy of Clocks)
"death" states wherein one or both clocks stops. Pendulum motion appears in religious ceremonies as well. The swinging incense burner called a censer, also...
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"Tallahassee Lassie". As a producer, his biggest hit was "Incense and Peppermints" by the Strawberry Alarm Clock. He was born in Dallas, Texas, and moved to New...
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sandspit. It was also known as Heung Po Tau (香埗頭), i.e. a port for exporting incense tree. Tsim Sha Tsui is a major tourist hub in Hong Kong, with many high-end...
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attached to the pulley mechanism, filled with 40 kg (88 lb) of charcoal and incense. In the Jubilee Years (whenever St James's Day falls on a Sunday) the Botafumeiro...
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The World in a Sea Shell (category Strawberry Alarm Clock albums)
Strawberry Alarm Clock lineup. When the band's second album, Wake Up...It's Tomorrow (1968), failed to recapture the huge success of 1967's Incense and Peppermints...
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Edinburgh Place Ferry Pier (redirect from Clock Tower, Star Ferry)
legislators incensed at a volte-face by the demolition company who recanted on selling the remains to conservationists and by suggestion that the clock tower...
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The Hastings Clock Tower is a public landmark in the New Zealand city of Hastings. Designed by Sidney George Chaplin, and erected in 1935, the tower is...
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Bread and Wine are also incensed before the Consecration by encircling them, twice counterclockwise, once clockwise. This incensing was accompanied with...
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Kumkum powder. Spices, sandalwood products, silk saris, essential oils, and incense are also available for purchase. The market is on Sayaji Rao Road. In 2017...
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