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    Surprise! It’s Big Ben

          Welcome to my home. I live here in this little nest inside this large clock,
    which is here in this tall clock tower in the great city of London. I’m a Big Ben
    bird.
          Big Ben is in the Palace of Westminster, which is the main government
    building in Britain. This is where the most important decisions in the United
    Kingdom are made. It is also where the prime minister works.
          The clock tower is 320 feet tall, and it has a very unusual clock. Most
    clocks have only one face, but this clock has four faces. That way,
    people from all around can look up and see what time it is.
          The clock does not need a battery or electricity(2) like your clock at
    home. This is an old fashioned clock. It runs on weights. If the clock is
    not keeping perfect time, the clock master adds or removes an old
    penny(3) to the weights so that it is perfect again.
          I hear people say, “Look over there. It’s Big Ben.” Most people think
    that Big Ben is the name of this tower. But did you know that Big Ben is
    not the name of the clock tower? It’s the name of the biggest and most
    famous(1) bell inside the tower.
      Big Ben rings every hour of the day so that people can hear what time
    it is. It is much taller than even a really tall man. Big Ben is 2.8
    meters high, and it weighs 13,760 kg. That is more than the weight of
    175 men.
           Big Ben is one of the biggest bells in the world. It was made on
    Saturday, April 10, 1858, and was named after Sir Benjamin hall.
    Benjamin, or Ben for short, was a very large man who was in charge
    of buying the new bell for the St. Stephen’s tower clock.
          One of the most amazing things about Big Ben is the placed where
    it was made. Big Ben comes from the Whitechapel Bell Foundry here
    in London. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry is famous because many of
    the great bells in the world were made here.

          But it is also famous because this factory is over 400 years old.

    The White chapel Bell Foundry began in 1570 and is still in business

    today. It is the oldest company in Britain and one of the oldest companies

    in the world.
          Since the opening of the White chapel Bell Foundry, there have been
    over twenty-seven Kings and Queens in Britain. Some of them, like King
    George V and Queen Mary, even came and visited this factory.
         The factory has always been on this same street. In 1670, during the
    great fire of London, the White chapel bell foundry burned down. But
    right after the fire, they rebuilt their factory just across the street. And
    that is where it still stands today.

         The most famous bells that were made at the White chapel Bell

    Foundry are the liberty bell in the United States, the great bell of

    Montreal(1) in Canada, and of course Big Ben. But now there some

    new, very special bells that are being made at the factory.
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