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Along with key landmarks such as Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, and The London Eye going dark, the quadrocopters will turn off their glow in support of Earth Hour.
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It remains unclear whether the new name -- Elizabeth Tower -- will capture the public imagination, or if they will continue to refer to it as "Big Ben".
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As a mark of respect, the chimes of Big Ben, as the bell and clock tower by the Palace of Westminster are commonly known, were silenced for the duration of the proceedings.
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Police will surely send extra resources to those parts of the course near historical sites such as Tower Bridge and Big Ben the kind of landmarks that attract disproportionate attention from those who seek to create violent spectacles of mayhem.
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EU, as the Eiffel Tower and Big Ben symbolise Paris and London.
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Just as it has carried the bongs of Big Ben into the new show, and its 'And Finally' trademark, the new bulletin brings considerable talent with it.
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And yesterday was the first time since that cold day at the end of January 1965 that the bells of Big Ben had fallen silent as a mark of respect for the dead - with the exception of a brief period in the 1970s, when the tower was closed for repairs.
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The big upsets were in this category as Ben Affleck for Argo, Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty, and Tom Hooper for Les Miserables were shut out.
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The government has announced that the chimes of Big Ben will fall silent during the funeral as a mark of respect.
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Yet policymakers are as in as much denial that there is a big problem (i.e. with the euro rather than any individual country) as Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson were that there was a housing bust, as Dick Fuld was that Lehman was toast, or as the IMF was that Thailand, let alone Asia, had profound economic weaknesses.
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