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May 17, 2008 - 03:35 AM
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1870:
David Octavius Hill, pioneering Scottish photographer, died. Born in 1802, Hill is often credited with being the first person to use photography as an aid to painting. Together with Robert Adamson he produced more than 1,500 photo-portraits of Scotland's great and good.
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Time Ball will be focal point of this year's Big Apple event
GEORGE ROBINSON of The One o'clock Gun Association has appealed to New Yorkers to remember the city man who invented the time ball during Hogmanay celebrations.
The Times Square Time Ball will be the focal point of this year's Big Apple event, but the association wants recognition of its inventor Captain Robert Wauchope. Source: Edinburgh Evening News
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