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Water clocks and famed scholars mark ancient time keepers
Uncle Ray honors William Penn School with World Book sets for top pupil questions. The article notes Babylonian water clocks using drips, then Greek and Egyptian clocks like the clepsydra with a float and gear driven dial. A Houston man reports his condemned four room house vanished before freeway work.
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Uncle Ray
William Penn
Verona
Ancient
Babylon
Houston, Tex
Jack Cloninger
Cloninger
U.S. 59
Houston