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    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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  • Park Monument to the Great Fire of London Palace of Westminster Parliament Hill Royal Observatory, Greenwich St Paul's Cathedral Tower Bridge Tower of London...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Eastcheap (redirect from Great Eastcheap)
    street in central London that is a western continuation of Great Tower Street towards Monument junction. Its name derives from cheap, the Old English word...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • in the UK, in Somers Town. 6 December: The city's Court of Common Council orders removal of inscriptions on the Monument to the Great Fire of London and...
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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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    is the common name for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, and by extension to the clock tower and the clock itself. The Great Clock of Westminster...
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    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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    figures, but fire damage in 1925 coupled with bombs during the Blitz on London in 1941, severely damaged most of such older models. The casts themselves...
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    street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster in London. It is named after builder William Baker, who laid out the street in the 18th century...
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    Scotland Yard (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    activity in London. The force moved from Great Scotland Yard in 1890, to a newly completed building on the Victoria Embankment, and the name "New Scotland...
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    the St James's area of the City of Westminster, London. It runs from Piccadilly Circus in the north to Pall Mall at the southern end. Located on the street...
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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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