Big Ben

1859

The clock on Big Ben, officially known as the Great Bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, began working on May 31, 1859. It was designed by Augustus Pugin and was part of a new clock tower built to replace the old one that was destroyed by fire in 1834. The bell itself, which weighs over 13 tons, chimed for the first time on July 11, 1859. Since then, Big Ben has become an iconic symbol of London.

Yes, it did.

Because it's a clock

I think that you are referring to the Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which is part of the Parliament buildings which were all designed by Charles Barry.

Big Ben does not control the time in the UK or England. It is replicating the time from Greenwich.

Big Ben has no dials at all - Big Ben is the BELL which sounds the hour at the top of St Stephen's tower (commonly known as the clock tower) at the Eastern end of the Palace of Westminster. Wikipaedia will tell you is the Northern end - but it just isn't.

The Westminster chimes are sounded by four other (smaller) bells which sound every quarter hour.

It is the largest four face chiming clock on the planet and there has been a clock tower on that site since the late thirteenth century.

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Big Ben is the largest bell in the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, London.

London is in Europe, so I suppose the bell is European.

Big Ben, the nickname for the largest bell in the clock tower of the palace of Westminster, is 7.2 ft high. The US Capitol Building is 288 ft tall.

The clock tower of the palace of Westminster is 315.9 ft.

Big Ben's minute hands travel approximately 190km every year.

Well to be honest no one can actually see big ben Because Big Ben is actually a bell that's why you hear the sound. Big Ben is called Big Ben because there used to be a man who was realy fat and very tall so massive used to work at the parlemetory house so they thought it was a good idea to name a bell after him his name was Benjaman Zaspheer.

Big Ben, or Elizabeth Tower as it is now known is visited on the outside by tourists and locals alike all year round. It is a landmark of London and the UK. The inside of the tower is not open for visiting by the general public or overseas visitors. It can be visited by groups of British people through appointment only. Tours take place most of the year and bookings may be made through their local member of parliament.

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Big Ben is the main bell (it sounds the hours) in the clock tower situated at the north-eastern end of the Houses of Parliament in the Place of Westminster, London. The Clock Tower is the world's biggest four-faced, chiming clock.

Westminster Abby is a church near to the Palace of Westminster but not part of it.

The chimes go like ''Ding,Dong,Ding,Dong,Ding,Dong,Ding,Dong'' It does that every hour at any hour but for example its 11am. It will chime 11.

The average ground diameter was around 15 feet, but many were very much larger. The artist and explorer George Catlin obtained a Crow tipi that used 30 poles and stood at least 25 feet tall (see links below).

Some of the tribes living on the margins of the Great Plains, such as the Mandans and Hidatsas, used rather small tipis for hunting at certain times of the year.

The links below take you to images of historic tipis:

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