HistoryPornEnglish • 1 year ago

'Knocker-Upper' in Britain, a method of waking people up for their work shifts before reliable/cheap alarm clocks, 1915

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'Knocker-Upper' in Britain, a method of waking people up for their work shifts before reliable/cheap alarm clocks, 1915

HistoryPornEnglish • 1 year ago

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But who wake them up?
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  The day shift, of course. If you refer to the chicken-egg problem, it was the Anomalocaris who begun everything.

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