What the Great Fire of London can teach us about the Los Angeles fires
The Great Fire of London broke out on September 2, 1666, in Thomas Farriner's bakery on Pudding Lane. At the time, much of ...
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How London Was Rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666
The Great Fire of 1666 destroyed central London. Several intrepid designers saw the rebuilding process as an opportunity to fix the old city's problems. None of these plans were ever adopted. Why?
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The Great Fire of London
In September 1666, the Great Fire of London consumed hundreds of acres of houses, shops, churches, and government buildings. But what effect did politics and memories of a recent civil war have on ...
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Eight things you might not know about the Great Fire of London
The Great Fire famously started at Thomas Farriner ... along with 51 smaller churches. The Rebuilding of London Act of 1666 also invited new ideas and schemes for the rebuilding of the city.
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The Great Fire of London, Hitler's rise and 9/11: Which Nostradamus predictions came true?
The famous fire ripped through London for three days in 1666. As well as accurately foretelling ... Swimming in praise, the great man hurries to the confluence. He will refuse entry to the magpies ...
Skyscraper will shatter peace at 800-year-old church, says former archbishop
A former archbishop of Canterbury has warned that a 54-storey skyscraper in the City of London will shatter the peace at a ...
California wildfires: In raging Los Angeles inferno, echoes of the great fires of London and Chicago
As Los Angeles faces its latest fire crisis, it must look to the lessons of past urban fires that led to sweeping changes and ...
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Rethinking risk-exposure
The availability of affordable insurance has shaped capital allocation decisions and enabled complacency about property ownership and risk exposure. A world where insurance is prohibitively expensive ...