Saturday, March 10, 2012

Assorted Glocks

Those of you who are regular readers probably have an idea of where this blog will be going given my proclivity for comparing words with similar spellings. Those of you that aren't used to it bear with me,it just might be fun or at least entertaining.
The Glock is a series of semi-automatic pistols produced in Austria. The company's founder Gaston Glock was an engineer with no experience in firearm design or production at the time their first pistol was made. He did,however,have experience in advanced synthetic polymers,which was instrumental in the first production of pistols with a polymer frame. Though the "plastic guns" didn't catch on right away they have come to be widely used.
The Rathaus-Glockenspiel is a tourist attraction in Munich,Germany. Everyday at 11a.m. and more often in the summer,it chimes and reenacts two stories. It consists of 43 bells and 32 life size figures.
The glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of a piano keyboard,similar to the xylophone.
Last on today's list is glocken, which in German means belfry and can be made into several compound words with the addition of different endings.
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