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The Great Fire of London
An illustration of the Great Fire of London. The west side of St Paul's ... September he then had whole rows of houses blown up using gunpowder. This created big enough spaces to stop the fire ...
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How Guy Fawkes, Figurehead of the Gunpowder Plot, Avoided the Full Horrors of Execution by Hanging, Drawing and Quartering
The Catholic conspirator jumped or fell from the gallows on this day in 1606, breaking his neck before the executioner could ...
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The Gunpowder Plot: The Mural on the Tube
On the 5th November 1605, a terrorist cell of desperate men tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament, but what drove these men to the extreme and why is their mural on the London tube? Lucy ...
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The Great Fire of London
Rat: How did The Great Fire of London start? (SINGS) Something’s burning, something’s burning. Fetch the ketchup, fetch the ketchup… BBQ! BBQ! It’s burnt and it’s crispy.Before ovens ...