Antique Discovery

Silhouettes are thought of as a featureless side view of a person, with a backdrop of white or cream, usually in an old antique frame with some sort of historical value. Really, a silhouette is simply a person, animal, object or scene that is a solid black...

There is a giant mechanical, working clock in the plaza, or Marienplatz of Munich, Germany. It is called the Rathaus-Glockenspiel, and it spins and moves and tells two different stories, high above the square, with life-sized wooden figures that move and...