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For the playbill of the last theater piece we brought on stage last summer, we decided to create a portrait collage of all the characters. The beautiful and determinate Lawyer.
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The Ball Tower (aka Round House or Signal Tower), part of the "1881 Heritage" complex in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon.
Use: Accurate timekeeping aboard ships is necessary to determine the longitude at sea. The Ball Tower gave a time signal to the ships in port, to synchronize their ship chronometers. The signal was given by dropping a large ball at a predetermined time.
Time balls were dropped at 1 PM (except in the US - at 12 noon there). They were raised half way about 5 minutes earlier to alert the ships, then with 2–3 minutes to go they were raised the whole way. The time was recorded when the ball began descending, not when it reached the bottom. The time ball was not usually dropped at noon as the observatories would be too busy taking readings. With the commencement of radio time signals, time balls gradually became obsolete and many were demolished in the 1920s.
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