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The BBC reports:
The clock on the facade of the building housing the Bolivian congress in La Paz has been reversed. Its hands turn left and the numbers have been inverted to go from one to 12 anti-clockwise.
Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca dubbed it the "clock of the south". He said the change had been made to get Bolivians to treasure their heritage and show them that they could question established norms and think creatively.
"Who says that the clock always has to turn one way? Why do we always have to obey? Why can't we be creative?", he asked at a news conference on Tuesday. "We don't have to complicate matters, we just have to be conscious that we live in the south, not in the north," Mr Choquehuanca added.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Friday June 27 2014, @06:49AM
On those old "Telechron" clock movements that became so popular in the 50's, where for the first time homeowners could use the timing on the power line to keep accurate time, most every one I had seen was symmetrical and if you put the thing back together with the coil assembly upside down ( quite easy to do ), the pole pieces got reversed and the clock ran backward as well is it would have run forward.
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