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... fires broke out . The account given by Stow is some- what elliptical , but evidently a great number of Londoners rushed ... fire , a special halfpenny tax was levied on foreign merchants , which suggests that neither bridge rents nor ...
... fires broke out . The account given by Stow is some- what elliptical , but evidently a great number of Londoners rushed ... fire , a special halfpenny tax was levied on foreign merchants , which suggests that neither bridge rents nor ...
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... Fire of London struck , devastating the city north of the bridge , including historic Colechurch . The fire did not spread across the bridge because a previous fire , in 1632 , had left a gap in the buildings . Rebuilt five years later ...
... Fire of London struck , devastating the city north of the bridge , including historic Colechurch . The fire did not spread across the bridge because a previous fire , in 1632 , had left a gap in the buildings . Rebuilt five years later ...
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... Fire burns fiercely in compressed air , and several times small fires started despite vigilance . Careful prior preparations sufficed to deal with them . The blasting filled the chamber with a dense cloud of smoke which was hard to ...
... Fire burns fiercely in compressed air , and several times small fires started despite vigilance . Careful prior preparations sufficed to deal with them . The blasting filled the chamber with a dense cloud of smoke which was hard to ...
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How Bridges Were Invented | 1 |
The Mighty Roman Arch | 7 |
The Engineer Vanishes from Europe but Appears in Asia | 19 |
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