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The last state prisoner to be held in the Tower, Rudolf Hess, the deputy leader of the Nazi Party, in May 1941. [14] The last person to be executed in the Tower, Josef Jakobs, Nazi spy, shot by a firing squad on 15 August 1941. [15] The last people to be held in the Tower, the Kray twins. [16]
Pages in category "Prisoners in the Tower of London" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 299 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built by William the Conqueror in 1078 and was initially a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by the new Norman ruling class. The castle was also used as a prison from 1100 (Ranulf Flambard) until 1952 , [3] although that was not its primary purpose. A grand palace ...
Traitors' Gate, 2007 Traitors' Gate. The Traitors' Gate is an entrance through which many prisoners of the Tudors arrived at the Tower of London.The gate was built by Edward I to provide a water gate entrance to the Tower, part of St. Thomas' Tower, a section of the tower designed to provide additional accommodation for the royal family.
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Panopticon principle is the central idea in the plot of We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My), a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921. Zamyatin goes beyond a concept of a single prison and projects panopticon principles to the whole society where people live in buildings with fully transparent walls. [citation needed]
The man reads Roland's fate from a pack of Tarot cards, including "the sailor" (Jake), "the prisoner" "the lady of shadows" (Susannah Dean), "death" (but not for Roland), and the Tower itself, as the center of everything. The man in black states that he is merely a pawn of Roland's true enemy, the one who now controls the Dark Tower itself.
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