what significance does the tower mentioned above carry with regards to menagerie?
There is evidence that King John first started keeping wild animals at the Tower.
Tower of London
There is evidence that King John (1166–1216) first started keeping wild animals at the Tower.
what was the tower of london originally used for A royal residence. where is it located? On the north bank of the River Thames in central London. when was it built? End of 1066. what is its structure? The structure was originally three storeys high, comprising a basement floor, an entrance level, and an upper floor. what do ghosts have to do there? A sentry on guard outside the Jewel House claimed to have witnessed an apparition of a bear advancing towards him and a tubular, glowing apparition was claimed to have been seen in the Jewel House by the Keeper of the Crown Jewels, Edmund Lenthal Swifte. what human intervention can we see at the river mentioned above? A variety of structures connected with use of the river, such as navigations, bridges and watermills, as well as prehistoric burial mounds why is there a need of life boats? Because the river claims a number of lives each year. what sport events are entertained at the river? Sailing, rowing, skiffing and kayaking, to name a few. what kind of activity is punting? It is boating in a punt. can we see any islands there? Yes, there are over 80 islands. is there any reference of it in literature? Yes, in many novels, diaries and poetry. can you name a few? "Three Men in a Boat" and "Our Mutual Friend", to name a few. who wrote the first one? Jerome K. Jerome. in what literary form was it written? The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. had it ever been performed in theatre? Yes, there was a stage adaptation. what was the novel about? The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity.
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Tower of London [SEP] Royal Menagerie
There is evidence that King John (1166–1216) first started keeping wild animals at the Tower. Records of 1210–1212 show payments to lion keepers. The Royal Menagerie is frequently referenced during the reign of Henry III. Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II presented Henry with three leopards, circa 1235, which were kept in the Tower. In 1252, the sheriffs were ordered to pay fourpence a day towards the upkeep of the King's polar bear, a gift from Haakon IV of Norway in the same year; the bear attracted a great deal of attention from Londoners when it went fishing in the Thames while tied to the land by a chain.