Big Ben (disambiguation)
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Big Ben may refer to:
- Big Ben, the nickname of the Great Bell housed within the Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster, in London, United Kingdom
- Big Ben (Heard Island), a massif on Heard Island
- Big Ben (horse), a Canadian show jumping horse
- Big Ben (solitaire), a solitaire card game resembling Clock Patience
- Big Ben (comics), A fictional British superhero featured in comic books and a planned animated TV show.
- Project Big Ben, a British WWII operation to reconstruct and evaluate captured missiles such as the V-2 (see Operation Crossbow).[1]
- A model of alarm clock manufactured by Westclox
- A brand of chewing tobacco in the 1930s
- The name of a whale in the stop-motion animated special Rudolph's Shiny New Year
The nickname Big Ben for a person may refer to:
- Ben Dunkelman, a notable Canadian veteran of the Second World War and other conflicts
- Ben Maller, a national sports radio host
- Ben Roethlisberger, the current starting quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers
- Ben Wallace, NBA player for the Cleveland Cavaliers
- Ben Gordon, NBA player for the Chicago Bulls.
- Ben McDonald, former Major League Baseball pitcher
[edit] References
- ^ McGovern, J. "Crossbow and Overcast". W. Morrow: New York, 1964. (p 74)