Editing Database: Tower of London

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Plenty has gone on in the [[Tower of London]] that you would want to keep off an estate agent's listing — torture, murder, and whatnot — but the complex itself had become little more than a tourist attraction by the end of the 19th century.

That changed when [[United Kingdom|Britain]] entered the [[World War I|Great War]] in 1914. The Tower was used to train [[soldier]]s and house prisoners of war. Blood was spilled at the Tower of [[London]] for the first time in over 150 years as 12 [[Germany|German]] spies were {{Wiki|Execution by firing squad|executed by firing squad}} between 1914 and 1915. The first to be executed, a man named [[Carl Hans Lody]], reportedly left a note thanking his captors for their hospitality and even shook hands with each member of the firing squad before his execution.
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