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Poppies Surround Britain’s Tower of London in Memory of WWI

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Getty 110614 TowerOfLondonPoppies?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1415309712615JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images(LONDON) — London’s latest tourist sensation is surprising — and somber.

It’s a blood-red moat of almost 900,000 ceramic poppies surrounding the Tower of London. The flowers sweep around the ancient structure in memory of the Brits who died in World War I.

Millions of people, including Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Princes William and Harry, and the Duchess of Cambridge, have visited the installation by artist Paul Cummins, who titled the project “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red.”

The poppies — one for each of Britain’s fallen in The Great War, as they still call it there — will be taken down on Nov. 12, the day after Armistice Day, which commemorates the end of fighting in 1918.


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