Sundials 2: Places with the name Sundial

This list created from a search of the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online

1. Moss Back Butte .......... (peak) also known as Sundial Rock
(World, North and Central America, United States, Utah, San Juan county)

2. Sundial .......... (inhabited place)
(World, North and Central America, United States, West Virginia, Raleigh county)

3. Sundial Lake .......... (lake)
(World, North and Central America, United States, Minnesota, Saint Louis county)

4. Sundial Mobile Park .......... (inhabited place)
(World, North and Central America, United States, Arizona, Maricopa county)

5. Sundial Mountain .......... (peak)
(World, North and Central America, United States, New Mexico, Catron county)

6. Sundial Park .......... (inhabited place)
(World, North and Central America, United States, Utah, Davis county)

7. Sundial Peak .......... (peak)
(World, North and Central America, United States, Utah, Salt Lake county)

8. Sundial, The .......... (peak)
(World, North and Central America, United States, Utah, Washington county)

Ten sundial mottoes

From a list of 50 sundial mottoes given on Sundials on the Internet's mottoes page here. The list of 50 is itself selected from more than 2000 mottoes collected by sundial maker James Stewart, who worked in Invercargill, New Zealand up until his death in 1933. As stated on the website, Bruce Christie of the Plant Sciences Department at NZ's Massey University and great great grandson of James Stewart, supplied the list.

1    A day may prime thee, improve this hour.
2    Moved by the light.
3    A stick in time saves mine.
4    On this moment hangs eternity.
5    To thee that mourn the hours are slow. But with joyful swiftly go.
6    The gliding hour flies on its fitful wings.
7    Come boys now's the hour.
8    Learn ze, years pass by like running water.
9    Snatch the present hour, fear the last.
10    As a shadow such is life.

Miniature parks

The International Association of Miniature Parks (IAMP) "is a trade body, which was developed in the 1990s in Europe to bring together the many theme parks across the world, large and small, which have a specialist theme of miniature model landscapes." Here are some statistics on miniature parks provided on the IAMP's website here

- There are more than 40 miniature parks open to the public across the world. Some are small and in private gardens or public areas, but most of the largest ones with commercial activities are members of IAMP.

- A new miniature park opens approx every 3 years.

- The oldest miniature park in its original form is Bekonscot, UK (built for the public between 1927-1929 with buildings in private location in 1920)

- The miniature park with the smallest scale is Miniature World, Canada (1:72 scale)

- Madurodam has the world’s biggest model railway – it is 4km long