Where can I find out what happened on a Saturday the 22nd in the world?
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EnzoX24 (
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October 27th, 2008
The problem is I don’t know what specific Saturday or even what month or year.
My Writing course recently took a trip to an Art Museum and we were asked to study a specific piece. The piece itself is a room (a cave more specifically), broken up into 5 sections. The last section had clocks on the wall representing different areas of the world. Each clock was stopped on the exact same time. One student brought up that each clock said “sam 22”. No one knew what it meant until my teacher told us that the artist was Swiss. I spoke up saying sam is most likely short for Samstag, German for Saturday. Something happened on Saturday the 22nd somewhere in time that made time stand still on the Earth. I need to find out what it means.
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It looked like about 10:10. AM or PM unknown.
It doesn’t matter: 10:10 is the official time for clock advertisements. It puts the clock/timepiece in the best light, you are most likely to appreciate it. However there are two theories offered for you here from that one:
1. When Alexander (the great) died, all the clocks stopped for he had conquered time as well as the world.
2. When the bomb was dropped, time was stopped.
The link didn’t work.
When you say bomb, do you mean the atomic bombs in Japan, or something else.
Sorry—this was the link: http://eirikso.com/2006/02/19/time-stopped-at-1009/
I mis-spaced my comment to stick “aside” into the link instead of the comment I was making. I only said “bomb” because it was explained by the link, but yes, Japan.
(Though I would still be more inclined to believe that they were clocks from around the world simply put in their best light.)
Well that explains the time, but but the bombs were dropped on August 6th and 9th, I believe.
@Enzo, was this the Thomas Hirschhorn installation?
Okay, I get this. Sam 22 symbolizes December 22, 2012, a Saturday . The last day of the Mayan calendar is 12.21.2012. All the world clocks set to 10:10 is about the end of the world happening. 12.21.2012 is the last day of life on earth; it ends on the 22nd.
@Alfredo, yes it actually. Do you have the link so I can use it in my paper?
I figured it out by looking at a calendar.
However, this article might be of interest. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_6_41/ai_98123134/pg_1
The museum you went to should be able to provide you with specific sources if you call their education department. Having docented for exhibits before, there is a lot of academic preparation that goes into training, and a lot of materials are made available to the docents.
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