A MAN who claims to be reincarnated has vividly described his former life as an 18th-century clockmaker. Chuck McMurray, from Chicago, bizarrely insists he lived a past life as John Harrison, an ...

The Clockmaker is running in the Firehall at the 1000 Islands Playhouse through September 8. Resident theatre critic Connie Meng was at the... Aug 13, 2012 — The Clockmaker is running in the Firehall ...

“Dead reckoning” is one of the most common terms uttered by swashbuckling captains in pirate movies. In the early 1700s, it meant using primitive tools like the astrolabe and compass to chart a course ...

I truly believe that great theater can do a lot of things. It can educate you, make you smile, challenge you, frighten you, amaze you and make you whistle and sing. But when it confuses you, then, as ...

English clockmaker John Harrison revolutionized long distance seafaring in the 18th century, solving the problem of calculating longitude at sea and devising tools that helped sailors navigate with ...

Kate Morton is the master of dual point of view historical fiction novels. Each of her previous novels, from 'The House at Riverton” to 'The Lake House,” involve a character from the present ...

The 1925 banjo-shaped clock had not worked for eight years when the owner brought it to Don Christo. Now, tick follows tock and the clock's pendulum lazily swings in time. In an age when people think ...