Ok, I have a trivia question, Maybe someone will know this one and maybe someone will learn some thing.
Q: Why do most pictures of watches or clocks or time peice advertizements have the time set to 10:12 or 12 minutes after 10 o-clock?
someone has the answer :) or bring your best guess.
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Now, "The rest of the story"
Legand has it that back in 1865 when President Abraham Lincoln was shot , it was in Ford theater at 10:12 pm (some verance in time, some say 10:10 , some say 10:13) and as the whole world was in caose over it, a local Washington clock store changed all of his clocks to 10:12 to represant the time of our great loss and even repainted the hands on his advertizing clock outside to 10:12
This is when all the local news papers, advertizers, artist, ect started to print ads, with the hands set at 10:12 and the tradition still carries on today.
I was told this story 20 years ago, and I looked it up online and found it to be varified in several spots, here is one of the links http://www.snopes.com/business/market/clockhands.asp
I hope it is interesting to some !