I am still in awe of clocks - how was the first water clock created? Did they do it in the day? How did they "time" it? Maybe with a sundial. How did they time the first sundial? The wikiHow instructions tell us to make a mark every 15 degrees on the circle that has been given a north orientation and the centre is marked where the east-west and north-south lines meet. And the instructions continue HERE. It seems complicated to me.
Have you wondered what people do to celebrate Christmas and still avoid Christmas chores? Here's a person who has avoided Christmas activities except one for the entire 2023. The biggest Gingerbread Village.
It took the entire year to achieve this Guinness Record. Visitors to his home says that it smells "amazing". Guinness World Record holder Jon Lovitch created four gingerbread exhibits, which are on display in New York City; Kansas City, Missouri; Houston, Texas; and Philadelphia this year.
Lovitch, 47 and the Guinness World Record holder for "largest entirely edible gingerbread village" at 1,251 individual houses. Lovitch wouldn't eat any of it, so he says. He does give them away and other people do eat them.
And what about the display in Texas? Here's one paper's quote on Lovitch's idea of what Texans should do with the gingerbread creations.
"I'm encouraging people, because I know it's a big part of the culture down there, to take it out in a field and blow it away," he said. "If it's a nice safe area and nobody's around, and you're doing it safely and legally, take your firearm, take the gingerbread house, take it out in the field somewhere behind grandma's barn or whatever, and blow it to smithereens and let the birds and squirrels have a good ol' time with it afterward. Blow it away. I'd love to see a video."
