Peace Tower Clock

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Uploaded:: Jun 26, 2010
Original:: 2448 × 3264

Original date:: Oct 08, 2004

Peace Tower, Parliament buildings, Ottawa, Canada. Note the observation deck windows below the clock. The Roman numeral for 4 o'clock (IIII) is not in modern subtractive notation : IV, strange quirk which only applies to clocks according to WikiPedia.

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Peace Tower

The Peace Tower (officially the Tower of Victory and Peace; in French: tour de la Victoire et de la Paix) is a focal bell and clock tower, sitting on the central axis of the Centre Block of the Canadian parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario. The present incarnation replaced the 55-metre (180 ft) Victoria Tower after the latter burned down in 1916, along with most of the Centre Block; only the Library of Parliament survived. It today serves as a Canadian icon, and appears on the obverse of both the Canadian fifty-dollar and twenty-dollar bills.

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