The Monument to the Great Fire of London, more commonly known simply as the Monument, is a fluted Doric column in London, England, situated near the northern...
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The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, gutting the...
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the DLR. Monument station, named after the Monument to the Great Fire of London, opened in 1884 and is served by the District and Circle lines. The stations...
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Zenith telescope (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
in the determination of astronomic latitude. Other types of zenith telescopes include the Monument to the Great Fire of London, which includes a central...
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Philpot Lane (redirect from The Two Mice Eating Cheese)
1862, or during the construction of the nearby Monument to the Great Fire of London in the 1670s. Some versions of the story have both of them dying, others...
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devastating fire, civil war, aerial bombardment, terrorist attacks, and riots. The City of London is the historic core of the Greater London metropolis...
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in 1543. Having escaped the Great Fire of London of 1666, the church fell into disrepair, becoming occupied by squatters in the 18th century. W. G. Grace...
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densities in Outer London. The Monument in the City of London provides views of the surrounding area while commemorating the Great Fire of London, which originated...
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were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666). The area has borne witness to many executions of heretics and political rebels over the centuries, as well...
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International Cricket Council. Retrieved 17 May 2019. "Guard: I Saw Shots Being Fired at Queen". Media related to The Mall, London at Wikimedia Commons...
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replacement was destroyed during the Second Great Fire of London on the night of 29/30 December 1940, the result of a Luftwaffe fire-raid. It was replaced in...
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London. It marks the spot where the 1666 Great Fire of London was stopped, whereas the Monument indicates the place where it started. The statue of a...
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Underground station and the Monument to the Great Fire of London. André Derain painted four works of the Thames, and his The Pool of London painted in 1906 is...
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neoclassical style. They include the Monument to the Great Fire of London ("the Monument"), St Paul's Cathedral, the Guildhall, the Royal Exchange, Dr. Johnson's...
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music publication Monuments (film), a 2021 American film Monument to the Great Fire of London, or "The Monument", London, England Monument House, also known...
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The Great Smog of London, or Great Smog of 1952, was a severe air pollution event that affected London, England, in December 1952. A period of unusually...
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Caius Gabriel Cibber (category Danish emigrants to England)
Pope's satire The Dunciad. He also created the bas reliefs on the base of the Monument to the Great Fire of London; his reliefs at the Royal Exchange...
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Scotland's Burning (redirect from London's Burning (round))
after the previous one. It may be an example of a nursery rhyme with tragic or violent themes. The London lyrics are said to be about the Great Fire of London...
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St Paul's Cathedral (redirect from Cathedral of London)
the aftermath of the Great Fire of London. The earlier Gothic cathedral (Old St Paul's Cathedral), largely destroyed in the Great Fire, was a central...
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Piccadilly Circus (redirect from Shaftesbury Monument Memorial)
of London's West End in the City of Westminster. It was built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with Piccadilly. In this context, a circus, from the Latin...
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Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, is completed. St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Vilnius is completed. 1677 The Monument to the Great Fire of London, designed by...
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The London Eye, or the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is Europe's tallest cantilevered...
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Thames Street near The Monument to the Great Fire of London, is part of the Diocese of London and under the pastoral care of the Bishop of Fulham. It is a...
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Magnus-the-Martyr church, the Monument to the Great Fire of London, and the full span of London Bridge. The present day ward of Bridge was historically...
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Cleopatra's Needle in London is one of a pair of obelisks, together named Cleopatra's Needles, that were moved from the ruins of the Caesareum of Alexandria, in...
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Alexander Column (redirect from The Alexander Column)
topped with a statue of an angel holding a cross, as a triumphal column it may be the highest but the Monument to the Great Fire of London is a freestanding...
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countries of the Middle East". The British Government is persuaded to present a site for a mosque in London for the Muslim community of Great Britain....
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Big Ben (redirect from Palace of Westminster Clock Tower, Great Clock of Westminster)
The Elizabeth Tower is the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster in London, England. It contains the Great Clock, a striking clock with five bells...
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The Citigroup Centre is a building complex in London. It houses Citigroup's EMEA headquarters and is located in Canary Wharf in the city's Docklands....
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Candlewick (ward) (category Wards of the City of London)
boundary with Bridge ward, down to the Monument to the Great Fire of London, erected to commemorate the place where the Great Fire abated. Its southern boundary...
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