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	The Great Fire of London. 1666.
		The Great Fire of London began on the night of September 2, 1666, as a small fire on Pudding Lane, in the bakeshop of Thomas Farynor, baker to King Charles II.
		The fire leapt to the hay and feed piles on the yard of the Star Inn at Fish Street Hill, and spread to the Inn.
		The one positive effect of the Great Fire was that the plague, which had ravished London since 1665, diminished greatly, due to the mass death of the plague-carrying rats in the blaze.
	www.luminarium.org /encyclopedia/greatfire.htm (650 words)

	Great Fire of London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the City of London from September 2 to September 5, 1666, and resulted more or less in the destruction of the city.
		Before this fire, two early fires of London, in 1133/1135 and 1212, both of which destroyed a large part of the city, were known by the same name.
		The death toll from the fire is unknown, and is traditionally thought to have been quite small, but a recent book theorizes that thousands may have died in the flames or from smoke inhalation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Fire_of_London (2117 words)

	Monument to the Great Fire of London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Monument to the Great Fire of London, more commonly known as The Monument is a 61-metre (202-foot) tall stone Roman doric column in the City of London, near to the northern end of London Bridge.
		It is located at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill, 61 metres from where the Great Fire of London started in 1666.
		The west side of the base of the Monument displays an emblematical sculpture, by Caius Gabriel Cibber, in alto and bas relief, of the destruction of the City; with King Charles II, and his brother, James, the Duke of York (later James II) surrounded by Liberty, Architecture, and Science, giving directions for its restoration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monument_to_the_Great_Fire_of_London (557 words)

	Great Fire of London - MSN Encarta
		Great Fire of London, disastrous fire in London which lasted from September 2 to September 6, 1666, destroying 13,200 houses and 87 churches, though with few casualties.
		The fire occurred at the height of the second Anglo-Dutch War, and Dutchmen, Frenchmen, and Catholics were attacked as suspected arsonists.
		In the east, the Tower of London and Pepys's house were saved by the Royal Navy, which used gunpowder to create a firebreak in Tower Street.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781530470/Great_Fire_of_London.html (286 words)

	London Bridge: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On the north side is the Monument to the Great Fire of London (Monument to the Great Fire of London: the monument to the great fire of london, more commonly known as the monument, is located...
		Another major fire broke out in 1633 with the northern third of the bridge being destroyed, although this prevented the bridge from being damaged by the Great Fire of London (Great Fire of London: the great fire of london was a major fire that swept through the city of london from...
		The current London Bridge was constructed by contractors John Mowlem (John Mowlem: more facts about this subject) from 1967 to 1972, and opened by Elizabeth II (Elizabeth II: Daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-)) in 1973.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/london_bridge (2040 words)

	The Great Fire of London - CASEBOOK
		Because The Great Fire of London posits a ruined novel at its origin while proposing the simultaneous remembrance and destruction of that very same novel, the story Roubaud recounts, the precise form he gives to his storytelling, directly concerns the novel genre, the novel form.
		That is, the specific protocol of the récit in The Great Fire of London stages the act of anamnesis, or of recalling to memory, in such a fashion that remembrance itself is demonstrated in and as the digressive unfolding of the text (I return to that protocol below).
		As in life itself, the rules and outcome of The Great Fire of London are deferred, underscoring that memory serves the principal role in the description and destruction of the Project.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /casebooks/casebook_london/poucel.html (7211 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Monument to the Great Fire of London
		The name comes from that of the pillar which is known simply as 'the Monument', and which was built to commemorate the Great Fire of London and the rebuilding of the city.
		This monument was planned as a tall pillar, which would provide an impressive view over the city and would be clearly seen from London Bridge.
		The design of The Monument allowed it to be used in this way: the cellar laboratory could be used by the experimenter, while the hollow shaft could be opened to the night sky by a hinged trapdoor in the urn at the top.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/getwriting/A1105426 (956 words)

	Fire
		The great plague of 1665 was the last catastrophic disease to hit it until the great cholera epidemics of the 19th century.
		Although the City of London was built of timber, and houses and streets were a bonfire waiting to happen, the fire took hold slowly and took four days to consume the capital.
		By 1700, London – in spite of or, perhaps, because of the fire – was the largest city in Europe and probably the richest.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/H/history/fire/experts.html (4962 words)

	Fire Great London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The word fires is used to refer to the combination of the brilliant glow and large amount of heat released during a rapid, self-sustaining exothermic oxidation process of combustible gases ejected from a fuel.
		Great Fire of London The Great Fire of London was a major fire that swept through the City of London from September 2-5, 1666, and resulted more or less in its destruction.
		The Monument to the Great Fire of London, more commonly known as the Monument, is located in the City of London, a few blocks north of the northern end of London Bridge close to where the Great Fire...
	www.your-fires.co.uk /firegreatlondon (2045 words)

	The Great Fire of London 1666
		The fire soon took hold and by the 2nd September, 300 houses had collapsed and the strong east wind spread the flames further, jumping from house to house.
		Luckily the Tower of London escaped the inferno, and eventually the fire was brought under control, and by the 6th September had been extinguished altogether.
		A monument was erected in Pudding Lane on the spot where the fire began, and can be seen today, where it is a reminder of those terrible days in September 1666.
	www.historic-uk.com /HistoryUK/England-History/GreatFire.htm (771 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Great Fire of London, UK
		The fire was very hot and caused a lot of damage but it took hold slowly and there was plenty of time for people in its path to remove themselves and often most of their belongings to safety — leaving the fire for someone else to put out.
		By the time the fire was totally put out, 373 acres inside the City Walls and about 63 acres outside the walls had been reduced to a waist-high wasteland stretching from the banks of the Thames to Smithfield.
		The fire destroyed large areas of communal living which were less than sanitary and killed many of the rats and fleas that were spreading the disease.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A3851129 (2239 words)

	The Great Fire of London, 1666
		In 1666, London was England's economic powerhouse with an estimated population of 500,000.
		So I rose, and slipped on my nightgown and went to her window, and thought it to be on the back side of Markelane at the furthest; but being unused to such fires as followed, I thought it far enough off, and so went to bed again and to sleep.
		The churches, houses, and all on fire and flaming at once, and a horrid noise the flames made, and the cracking of houses at their ruin.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /londonfire.htm (1334 words)

	Bank and Monument stations - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bank and Monument are interlinked London Underground stations, spanning the length of King William Street in the City of London.
		Monument was connected at the other, to an extension to the westbound platform, meaning that there was no longer the requirement to pass down the busy Northern line platforms in order to change lines.
		London Buses routes 8, 11, 21, 23, 25, 26, 43, 76, 133, 141 242 and 388 and night bus routes N8, N11, N21, N26, N50, N76 and N133 serve the station.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Bank_tube_station (1419 words)

	London Fire: The Great Fire of London - 1666
		This fire was known as the Great Fire of London - until September 2nd 1666.
		The London of 1666 was a city of half timbered and pitch covered medieval buildings, mostly with thatched rooves.
		The Great Fire of London set in motion changes in the capital which laid the foundations for organised firefighting in the future.
	www.angliacampus.com /education/fire/london/history/greatfir.htm (1740 words)

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		However, the Monument can also be seen as a piece of political propaganda—the Monument commemorated a recovery that had not nearly been completed and gave praise to a supposedly benevolent king Charles II.
		The inscription on the south side of the Monument claims that the King immediately “provided for the comfort of his citizens and the ornament of his city” by improving upon everything which had been destroyed and remitting his people of taxes (Leigh).
		The Monument, standing 202 feet high and the same amount away from where the fire started, still rightfully stands as a testament to the resiliency of Londoners during the calamitous time.
	filebox.vt.edu:8080 /c/cdearfie/james/Monument.doc (659 words)

	The great fire of London 1666
		Embers from the fire are caught by the strong breeze and deposited onto other buildings, which in turn caught fire.
		This of course, aided the fire, and in conjunction with the wind soon had the whole of the city ablaze.
		There had been other fires, the largest killing 3000 people in the year 1212, but none had caused so much devastation to the City as the 1666 fire although luckily there were no human casualties this time.
	barryoneoff.co.uk /html/the_fire.html (896 words)

	HMS Belfast (C35) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She also served in the Korean War, in which her guns were used for shore bombardment in support of the United Nations forces.In July 1952 she was hit by a communist battery, killing one and wounding four others.
		She was towed to a new berth at Symon's Wharf in the Pool of London upstream of Tower Bridge and opened to the public on Trafalgar Day that same year.
		Her guns are reportedly trained on the London Gateway Service Area (formerly Scratchwood services) on the M1 motorway, 12.5 miles to the northwest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Belfast (478 words)

	Architecture in Fine Prints Section I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This first section presents five examples of prints inspired by such monuments, beginning with Frank Brangwyn’s rendering of the Monument to the Great Fire of London in 1666 designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
		The second and third prints are of the Washington National Monument, one being Robert Mills’ original design of 1846 as lithographed by Charles Fenderich, and the other by Leon Dolice of the monument as it was finally completed in 1884.
		The fourth and fifth prints by Richard Haas are monuments to economic power—that of the country’s Empire State, and that of Walter P. Chrysler, one of its prominent industrialists.
	www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/archex/arc1.htm (179 words)

	MICHAEL PEAD :: Photos of the City of London
		The Monument commerates the Great Fire of London in 1666.
		The City of London, or the "Square Mile" as it is otherwise known, is one of the areas that makes up Central London and is the main financial district of the capital.
		It was destroyed by fire in 1212 and, more famously, during the Great Fire of London in 1666.
	www.michaelpead.co.uk /photography/london/city.shtml (478 words)

	The Great Fire of London
		Fanned by an east wind, the fire spread with terrifying speed, feeding on the tar and pitch commonly used to seal houses.
		The Monument (on Monument Street, naturally!) is a slender column 202 feet high, which is the exact distance from its base to the site of the baker's shop where the fire began.
		The original plans for the Monument called for a statue of Charles II on top, but Charles objected to the honour, fearing that the people of London would then associate him with the disaster.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/great_fire.htm (519 words)

	Great Fire of London
		In all likelihood, the only good thing that came of the Great Fire of London (besides halting the spread of the Black Death) was that the MacThoy Men began bathing once a year.
		A monument was erected and still stands in London, tho' the original text was removed.
		It attributed the Great Fire to the "treachery and malice of the Popish faction and carrying on their horrid plot for extirpating the Protestant religion and old English liberty and introducing Popery and slavery."
	www.macthoy.org /history/fires/fire.htm (402 words)

	Monument
		When the first Great Fire (in 1212) destroyed the old Saxon and Norman City of London during the reign of King John, a new city sprang up quickly in its place.
		Each step in the Monument’s shaft is exactly 6 inches high to permit a large-scale measuring stick for the study of barometric pressure.
		It is specifically a monument to the Great Fire of London, but may be viewed as a monument to the end of the Great Plague, the beginning of modern London, or to Wren himself.
	www.homeatfirst.com /monument.htm (684 words)

	London Monument, United Kingdom
		This tall column, 61.5m/202ft high, was erected between 1671 and 1677 to commemorate the Great Fire.
		The Monument base commemorating the great fire of London.
		The Monument commemorating the great fire of London.
	www.planetware.com /london/london-monument-gb-l-mo.htm (140 words)

	Great Fire of London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Great Fire of London was a major fire that swept through the City of London on September 2, 1666, and resulted more or less in its destruction.
		Most buildings in London at this time were constructed of highly combustible materials (wood, straw, etc.), and sparks which emanated from the baker's shop fell onto an adjacent building.
		The fire had the beneficial effect of killing many of the rats which were responsible for the spread of the Great Plague.
	www.findword.org /gr/great-fire-of-london.html (629 words)

	The Monument in Fish Street Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This consists of a fluted column 202 feet in height, designed by Wren, and erected in 1671-77 in commemoration of the Great Fire of London which on September 2nd to the 7th 1666 destroyed 460 streets with 89 churches and 13,200 houses, valued at £7,335,000.
		The height of the column is said to equal its distance from the house in Pudding Lane in which the fire broke out.
		A winding staircase of 345 steps ascends the column to a platform enclosed by an iron cage (added to put a stop to suicides from the monument), above which rises a gilt urn with blazing flames 42 feet in height.
	www.victorianweb.org /art/architecture/feist/31.html (170 words)

	The Monument (Great Fire of London) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This tall tower commemorates the The Great Fire of London of London of 1666 which raged for several days starting in Pudding Lane and devastating most of the city.
		The spot, being near to the bridgehead of London Bridge is actually one of the oldest in London.
		Having completed the great climb you are presented with a certificate.
	www.plus44.com /london44/tour/monement.html (86 words)

	The Monument in London EC3: tourist information from TourUK
		Erected in 1671 - 77 by Sir Christopher Wren, the Monument commemorates the Great Fire of London.
		The fire lasted three days and devastated four-fifths of the medieval city including 13,000 houses, 87 churches and 44 livery company halls, but only nine people perished in the fire.
		The Great Fire had swept away the capital's medieval timber buildings giving the opportunity to replace them in a style more suited to a new commercial era.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_sights/monument1.htm (319 words)

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