Not all of them do. The clock in Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, decorated by Paolo Uccello, travels anti-clockwise. SIR – Roundabouts (or carousels as they are known elsewhere) go round clockwise ...

IF THE HANDS of dial clocks swept over their faces the other way around, that would be the direction known as “clockwise”. And they would tell the hour just as faithfully. It is convenient to have all ...

Originally published by Jack Forster on Hodinkee. The first thing most of us notice about clocks and watches when we learn to tell time, is that the hands turn clockwise – the habit of perceiving ...

The clock displayed on the Bolivian Congress building, located in the city of La Paz, has been re-set to run in reverse. Its hands turn left and the numbers have been inverted to go from one to twelve ...

In the northern hemisphere, the vast majority of tornadoes (more than 95 percent) rotate counter-clockwise–the same spin as a low pressure system. At low levels, air spirals into a tornado in a large ...

There are no rules stating figure skaters must turn either clockwise or counterclockwise, and the difference in preference was on full display during the 2022 Winter Olympics. Announcer Johnny Weir ...

This video explains the historical and scientific reasons clocks move clockwise, tracing the design back to early timekeeping methods and sundials.

A sure-fire way to maximize distance is to rotate the left arm clockwise on the way back and counter-clockwise on the way down. For a good backswing, you need to start swinging the club back by ...

From space, the Iberian Peninsula – primarily occupied by Spain and Portugal – looks like an immovable solid block of land anchoring southwestern Europe. But beneath that apparent stability, the ...