Quieted for only the third time in history, Parliament’s specialist clock makers will ensure that Big Ben will still bong for important national events such as New Year’s Eve and Remembrance Sunday. This essential program of works will safeguard the clock on a long term basis, as well as protecting and preserving its home – the Elizabeth Tower.” As Keeper of the Great Clock I have the great honor of ensuring this beautiful piece of Victorian engineering is in top condition on a daily basis. “Big Ben falling silent is a significant milestone in this crucial conservation project. Steve Jaggs, Keeper of the Great Clock, says: The public will be able to see one working clock face visible at all times throughout the process, though other faces will be covered at certain points. Weighing an impressive 13.7 tons, the custom-built Victoria clockwork mechanism will continue telling time silently after the striking hammers are disconnected. In order to preserve the iconic Victorian engineering of the Great Clock and Great Bell, Big Ben’s famous striking will be paused until 2021. For the next four years, Big Ben’s bongs will fall silent as a major conservation project begins at Elizabeth Tower on August 21, 2017. This volume is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth.New York, New York (August 15, 2017) – For 157 years, the iconic time-keeper of the capital city has rung out every hour to the note of E, accompanied by distinct chiming bells every 15 minutes. Consequently, great historical names alone are selected and it has been the writer's aim to present the prominent and leading traits in their characters, and all the important events in their lives, in a bold and free manner, and yet in the plain and simple language which is so obviously required in works which aim at permanent and practical usefulness. There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame. Download cover art Download CD case insert Queen Elizabeth

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