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The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England.
The present tower likely replaced an older Byzantine tower mentioned by the 12th-century archbishop Eustathius of Thessalonica during the sack of the city in 1185. [1] The present tower, which once guarded the eastern end of the city's sea walls, was for many years attributed to Venice, to which the Byzantines ceded Thessaloniki in 1423.
Skull Tower (Serbian Cyrillic: Ћеле кула, romanized: Ćele kula, pronounced [tɕel̩e kula]) is a stone structure embedded with human skulls located in Niš, Serbia.
Tower 42, commonly known as the NatWest Tower, is a 183-metre-tall (600 ft) skyscraper in the City of London.It is the sixth-tallest tower in the City of London and the 19th-tallest in London overall. [2]
Merdeka 118, formerly known as Menara Warisan Merdeka, [a] KL 118 and PNB 118, is a 118-story megatall skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.At 678.9 m (2,227 ft) tall, [3] it is the second-tallest building and structure in the world, only behind the Burj Khalifa at 828 m (2,717 ft).
A Tower Warder (Beef Eater) 1893. The Yeomen Warders were formed in 1485 by the new King Henry VII, the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty.The Tudor rose, a heraldic badge of the dynasty, is part of the badge of the Yeomen Warders to this day.
The Tower in the 1909 Rider–Waite tarot deck. The Tower (XVI) (most common modern name) is the 16th trump or Major Arcana card in most Italian-suited tarot decks. It has been used in tarot cards since the 15th century as well as in divination since the mid-19th century.
Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule, suspension, and, until 1960, cantilever bridge [1] in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel. [2]