They didn’t want to anger the big guy by abbreviating his name ... whirring and chiming mechanical timepieces: The Roman numerals on most clocks are centripetal, that is, they are not horizontal ...

Why do some analog clocks with Roman numerals have '4' as 'IV,' while others have 'IIII'? This is one of those questions where no one seems to have a definitive answer, and probably no one ever will.

Do you want to win a bet? Ask someone to draw the face of an old grandfather clock with the Roman numerals placed correctly. Most of the numbers are easy — either IIII or IV is correct as the ...

Mixed views have ensued over the newly rehabilitated clock at the renowned Blantyre Clock Tower with Roman numeral five on the multi-million kwacha clock appearing upside down. Clock tower in ...

Roman numerals, unsurprisingly, date back to ancient Rome, and while they’re no longer commonplace, they do still occur outside of the Super Bowl use case: they sometimes appear on clock faces ... and ...

It’s the only thing in life that seems to use Roman numerals besides old clocks. Roman numerals are ... NFL to ditch its method of numbering the Big Game: Roger Goodell is giving you a one ...

people will once again be forced to know a Roman numeral above the 12 they might see on a grandfather clock.