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  2. Tower of London - Wikipedia

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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. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which is separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open space known as ...

  3. East End of London - Wikipedia

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    East End of London. Coordinates: 51°30′51″N 00°03′18″W. Dorset Street, Spitalfields, photographed in 1902 for Jack London 's book The People of the Abyss. The East End of London, often referred to within the London area simply as the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City ...

  4. Tower defense - Wikipedia

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    Tower defense is seen as a subgenre of real-time strategy video games, due to its real-time origins, even though many modern tower defense games include aspects of turn-based strategy. Strategic choice and positioning of defensive elements is an essential strategy of the genre.

  5. Tower Bridge - Wikipedia

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    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] It crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and is one of five London bridges owned and ...

  6. Ravens of the Tower of London - Wikipedia

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    The ravens of the Tower of London are a group [a] of at least six captive ravens (currently nine) [3] resident at the Tower of London. [4] Their presence is traditionally believed to protect the Crown and the Tower; a superstition holds that "if the Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain with it." [4]

  7. Palace Theatre, Manchester - Wikipedia

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    In September 1940, the theatre took a direct hit from a German bomb during the Manchester Blitz. [4] In the 1970s, audience numbers declined, as they did in many live venues, and the theatre was threatened with closure.

  8. All Hallows-by-the-Tower - Wikipedia

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    Assistant priest (s) Sophia Acland. All Hallows-by-the-Tower, at one time dedicated jointly to All Hallows (All Saints) and the Virgin Mary and sometimes known as All Hallows Barking, [1] [2] is an ancient Anglican church on Byward Street in the City of London, England, overlooking the Tower of London . According to the church website and other ...

  9. Second Great Fire of London - Wikipedia

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    The Second Great Fire of London in December 1940 was caused by one of the most destructive air raids of the Blitz during World War II. The Luftwaffe raid caused fires over an area greater than that of the Great Fire of London in 1666, leading one American correspondent to say in a cable to his office that "The second Great Fire of London has begun".