* 1858 – After the original Big Ben, a 14. 5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13. 76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

Included in the park are ten islands: Northwest Island, Deception Island, Pass Island, Strawberry, Ben Ure, Kiket, Skagit, Hope, and Big and Little Deadman Islands.

Indicate location-Establishing shots may use famous landmarks to indicate the city where the action is taking place or has moved to, such as the Empire State building or the Statue of Liberty to identify New York, the London Eye or Big Ben to identify London, the Sydney Opera House to identify Sydney, the Eiffel Tower to identify Paris, or the Las Vegas Strip to identify Las Vegas.

* Michael Palin – Mr Big Nose, Francis, Mrs A, Ex-leper, Ben, Pontius Pilate, Boring Prophet, Eddie, Nisus Wettus, 3rd wise man

The Elizabeth Tower, in particular, which is often referred to by the name of its main bell, " Big Ben ", is an iconic landmark of London and the United Kingdom in general, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city and an emblem of parliamentary democracy.

* Green, Bill, Ben Peskoe, Scott Shuffitt, Will Russell ; I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You, ( Bloomsbury USA – August 21, 2007 ), ISBN 978-1-59691-246-5.

* Tyree, J. M., Ben Walters The Big Lebowski ( BFI Film Classics ), ( 2007, British Film Institute ), ISBN 978-1-84457-173-4.

In North America, MPI Home Video released a series of 20 VHS tapes covering the series: one for each of the 17 episodes and three more containing " The Alternate Version of ' The Chimes of Big Ben '", a documentary and a " best of " retrospective, respectively.

The A & E issue included " The Alternate Version of ' The Chimes of Big Ben '" and the MPI-produced documentary ( but not the redundant " best of " retrospective ) among its limited special features.

The US edition, once again by A & E Home Video, includes the first North American release of an alternative edit of " Arrival " ( in high definition ), as well as " The Alternate Version of ' The Chimes of Big Ben '" from the earlier DVD / VHS releases ( in standard definition due to the degraded source material ) and assorted documentaries and behind-the-scenes footage.

* July 11 – The chimes of Big Ben ring for the first time in London.

* August 5 – The Great Clock of Westminster ( or Big Ben ) suffers internal damage and stops running for over nine months.

* April 27 – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, after whom Big Ben may be named ( b. 1802 )

* Jump Off: Big Ben Challenge

:: Keen returns to Earth only to find the Vorticon mothership hovering above with its deadly X-14 Tantalus Ray cannons locked on to eight of Earth's greatest landmarks: Big Ben ( London ), the Sphinx ( Cairo ), the Sydney Opera House ( Sydney ), the Statue of Liberty ( New York ), the Eiffel Tower ( Paris ), the Colosseum ( Rome ), St Basil's Cathedral ( Moscow ), and the White House ( Washington D. C .).

* Dead Famous ( 2001 ) is a comedy / whodunit novel, also by Ben Elton, in which a contestant is murdered while on a Big Brother-like show.

At 4 pm, the time shown on Big Ben on the London Games symbol, the King declared the Games open, 2, 500 pigeons were set free and the Olympic Flag raised to its flagpole at the end of the stadium.

What we would consider today to be the first recorded sound effect was of Big Ben striking 10: 30, 10: 45, and 11: 00.

Big Book of Ben, The ( 2007 ), " pollock / pollack ", p. 32

Big Sound Temple, the novel released by author Ben Stevens in March 2012 ( HarperCollins ), is written entirely in Engrish ( or Japlish ).

In the penultimate mile along The Embankment, the London Eye comes into view, before the athletes turn right into Birdcage Walk to complete the final, catching the sights of Big Ben and Buckingham Palace, and finishing in The Mall alongside St. James's Palace.

Members of the British Royal Family walk through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office towards the Cenotaph, assembling to the right of the monument to wait for Big Ben to strike 11: 00 a. m., and for the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery at Horse Guards Parade, to fire the cannon marking the commencement of the two minutes of silence.

' Did you know that it takes a man in a tweed suit five and a half seconds to fall from the top of Big Ben to the ground?

In 1965, he became the first horse to ever be voted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, an honour he held for thirty-one years and now shares with Canadian Equestrian Champion Big Ben ( inducted 1996 ).

It was a fair fight, the boy provoked it -- Big Charlie told me so.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

It should have been nearly as easy for her to remember that as it was for Big Hans to remember going after the axe while he was still spattered with Pa's yellow sick insides.

Big Hans began pouring whisky in the kid's mouth but his mouth filled without any getting down his throat and in a second it was dripping from his chin.

For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

The first time was in 1955 when a full-dress Big Four summit meeting produced the `` spirit of Geneva ''.

On the third occasion -- another Big Four summit session at Paris a year ago -- there was no problem of an illusory `` spirit ''.

To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.

The Big Four, helped by Archie's brother Cambell, was a stop-gap collection of Sketch magazine stories, for money when her husband left.

It was there that Young retrieved, at the request of mission control, the largest rock returned by an Apollo mission, a breccia nicknamed Big Muley after mission geology principal investigator Bill Muehlberger.

The album was a multi-platinum success and produced the pop hit " Lucky One " ( No. 18 pop and No. 2 AC ; No. 1 on Radio & Records ) as well as the title track ( a duet with country music star and future husband Vince Gill ) ( No. 37 pop ) and a cover of Joni Mitchell's frequently covered " Big Yellow Taxi " ( No. 67 pop ) ( in which she changed the line " And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em " to " And then they charged the people 25 bucks just to see em ").

It was part of the ' Big Push ' ( later known as the Battle of the Somme ) that was intended to force the German Army into a retreat from the Western Front, a line they had held since late 1914.

Torrio took over the crime empire of James " Big Jim " Colosimo after he was murdered.

The Lord's Day Act, which since 1906 had prohibited business transactions from taking place on Sundays, was struck down as unconstitutional in the 1985 case R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. Calgary police officers witnessed several transactions at the Big M Drug Mart, all of which occurred on a Sunday.

Big M was charged with a violation of the Lord's Day Act.

Known as " Big Mac ", the encyclopedia became the standard baseball reference until 1988, when Total Baseball was released by Warner Books using more sophisticated technology.

According to the Big Bang theory, the Universe was once in an extremely hot and dense state which expanded rapidly.

While the scientific community was once divided between supporters of the Big Bang and those of alternative cosmological models, most scientists became convinced that some version of the Big Bang scenario best fit observations after the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964, and especially when its spectrum ( i. e., the amount of radiation measured at each wavelength ) was found to match that of thermal radiation from a black body.