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• Tower of London’s execution site

  25-11-2018 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  While the Tower of London has a grim history of death and torture, most of the deaths actually took place outside the Tower, on a plot of land that is today marked by a small memorial.That the deaths took place outside is that they were a public spectacle, and thousands of people would throng to come and see a traitor executed. Contrary to popular opinion, public executions were fairly rare, and even less so for traitors, so people would clamour to be allowed to watch one take place.
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• The restoration of the London Stone

  25-11-2018 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The London Stone, ancient relic, protector of London, provider of unlimited rice pudding, mysterious icon, is back in its less ancient home on the streets of London.The London Stone is a roughly 100 million year old lump of limestone formed when England was mostly submerged under a shallow sea due to the planet being much warmer then than now, and all the ice-caps having melted.
  Eventually, that primordial piece of Jurassic limestone ended up in London, and went on to become a legend.
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