The Ding Heard ‘Round the World
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LONDON — “Big Ben,” the world’s most famous clock, dinged when it should have donged and the sound was heard around the world today as a 150-year-old part of the striking mechanism snapped in two due to metal fatigue.
An engineer working on the clock said the British Broadcasting Corp., which relays the chimes live on its world service, called to tell him about the problem. “One of the dongs didn’t dong,” he said. The clock has been repaired.
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