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| x Liberty Bell |
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The Liberty Bell, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is one of the most prominent symbols of the American Revolutionary War. It is a familiar symbol of independence within the United States and has been described as an icon of liberty and justice....
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| x Japanese Peace Bell |
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The Japanese Peace Bell is a United Nations peace symbol. Cast on 1952-10-24, it was an official gift of the Japanese people to the United Nations on June 8, 1954. The symbolic bell of peace was donated by Japan to the United Nations at a time when...
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| x Zygmunt |
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The Sigismund Bell, named after King Sigismund I the Old, is a bell that hangs inside Zygmunt's Tower at Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, Poland. Zygmunt is Polish for Sigismund. It was cast in 1520 by the German artisan, Hans Beham (also known as Johann...
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| x Tsar Kolokol |
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The Tsar Bell (Russian: Царь–колокол, Tsar-kolokol) is a huge bell on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. The bell was commissioned by Empress Anna, niece of Peter the Great.
The bell is currently the largest bell in the world, weighing...
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| x Victoria Tower Bell |
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The Victoria Tower Bell was cast in 1875 and installed in the Victoria Tower of the Canadian Parliament Buildings in 1877. The Bell fell from the Tower in the Centre Block fire of 1916.
The Bell was restored in the year 2000, and placed on the...
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| x Korean Bell of Friendship |
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The Korean Bell of Friendship is a massive bronze bell housed in a stone pavilion in Angel's Gate Park, in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Located at the corner of Gaffey and 37th Streets, the section of the park is...
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| x World Peace Bell |
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The Newport, Kentucky World Peace Bell is one of more than twenty Peace Bells around the World. It weighs 33,285 kg (73,381 lb) and is 3.7 m (12 feet) wide. From 2000 until 2006, it was the largest swinging bell in the World. It was dedicated on...
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| x Great Tom |
Great Tom is the bell that hangs in Tom Tower (designed by Christopher Wren) in Christ Church, University of Oxford, England. It is the loudest bell in Oxford, and measures seven feet one inch in diameter and five feet nine inches in height, and...
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| x Pummerin |
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Pummerin ("Boomer") is the name of the two largest bells in the history of the Stephansdom in Vienna.
The Old Pummerin was originally cast in 1705 from 208 of the 300 cannon captured from the Muslim invaders in the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna....
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| x Bell of King Seongdeok |
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The Bell of King Seongdeok is a massive bronze bell, the largest extant bell in Korea and one of the largest in the world. The full Korean name means "Sacred (or Divine) Bell of King Seongdeok the Great." It was also known as the Emille Bell, after...
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| x Big Joe |
Big Joe is a bronze bell which hangs in the steeple of Saint Francis De Sales Catholic Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The bell is the largest swinging bell which was ever cast in the United States. It was cast by the Buckeye Bell Foundry in 1895 . The...
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| x Illinois Freedom Bell |
The Illinois Freedom Bell is located in Mount Morris, Illinois, United States, and is the official freedom bell of the U.S. state of Illinois. The bell was created for a church in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin as a replica of the Liberty Bell in 1862. In...
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| x Pokahuntas Bell |
Named for the Indian princess Pocahontas, the Pokahuntas Bell was created in 1907 to hang in the Virginia Building at the Jamestown Exposition.
The push to create the bell was led by the Pocahontas Bell Association, created by Anna S. Green of...
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| x Liberty Bell |
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The Liberty Bell (in German, Freiheitsglocke) in Berlin, Germany, is a bell that was given as a gift from Americans to the city of Berlin in 1950 as a symbol of the fight for freedom and against communism in Europe, and was inspired by the American...
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| x Lutine Bell |
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| x Mingun Bell |
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The Mingun Bell is a bell located in Mingun, Sagaing division, Myanmar. It is located in some 11 km (7 miles) north of Mandalay on the western bank of the Ayeyarwady river. The casting of the bell started in 1808 and finished in 1810. King Bodawpaya...
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