- Big Ben, Londra’daki Westminster Sarayı’nda bulunan Parlamento Binası1 mn çanına, saatine ve saat kulesine verilen addır.
- Big Ben was named after Sir Benjamin Hall, First Commissioner for Works. Some people say it was named after Benjamin Caunt, a heavyweight boxing champion.
- This is incorrect however, and Big Ben is merely the nickname for the Great Bell within the clock itself. The wider structure of the tower has historically been called...
- The real name of the tower, housing the clock, is 'Clock Tower'. Big Ben is the nickname of the main bell, formally known as the Great Bell, housed within the tower.
- Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, and often extended to refer to the clock and the...
- The first fellow to show up for the position had no arms. In the interview, they asked "How can you hit Big Ben with the striker if you have no arms?"
- The first chimes of the Big Ben clock were heard in 1859, but like most old English architecture, the tower has a much longer and more complex history.
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- Big Ben is technically the name of the 13-ton bell that (normally) chimes the hours from the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster.