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  1. Big Ben is a popular name for the bell in the
  2. clock tower of the Houses of Parliament in 
  3. London, cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  4. in 1858, and known as "Big Ben" after 
  5. Benjamin Hall, First Commissioner of Works at
  6. the time.  It weighs 13.7 tonnes.
  7.  
  8. Subject by: Vince Pike
  9.