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Definitive treatment of 1871 fire — one of the greatest disasters in American history — includes eyewitness accounts and
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Stirling Castle is one of Scotland's most famous historical sites and one that featured prominently in Scottish his
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*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts about Nero and the Great Fire *Includes a bibliography for further reading
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‘We can say without fear of being contradicted by history, that June 16, 1976 heralded the beginning of the end of the c
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On the night of July 19, AD 64, a fire began beneath the stands of Rome's great stadium, the Circus Maximus. For mo
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If any city deserves a complete chronology, it is surely New York. New York, Year by Year is a cornucopia of the familia
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A cornucopia of the familiar and the forgotten, the historic and the ephemeral, the heroic and the banal. This handy ref
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One of the great accidents of nature occurred in Siberia in 1908 when a fireball appeared over the horizon and slammed i
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The great siege of Gibraltar was the longest recorded in the annals of the British army. Between 1779 and 1783 a small B
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