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Understandably, noted traitor Benedict Arnold isn't buried in the U.S., but at St. Mary's church in this city |
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FAILING HISTORY |
2023-10-25 |
#18 |
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Built for this city's Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palacesaw some 6 million visitors on its 19 acres |
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BUILT IN THE 1800s |
2021-12-23 |
#8539 |
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In June 1986 a bakers union expressed regret for a disaster in this European city 320 years before |
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HISTORIC EVENTS |
2017-07-19 |
#7578 |
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In the great fire of this capital city in 1666, as much as 80% of the city burned down but fewer than a dozen people perished |
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HISTORY IS STRANGE |
2012-02-13 |
#6311 |
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Though he was Flemish, van Dyck is best known for the portraits he did in this British city in the 1630s |
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17th CENTURY ART |
2007-10-30 |
#5322 |
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Asserting "This flag dips to no earthly king", the U.S. delegation refused to do so at this city's Olympics in 1908 |
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OLYMPIC HISTORY |
2001-07-03 |
#3892 |
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In 1800 the prestigious Royal College of Surgeons was chartered in this city |
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CENTURY CITY |
2001-04-25 |
#3843 |
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Matthew Bourne set his innovative new production of "Cinderella" in this city during the Blitz |
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BALLET IN THE '90s |
1998-05-27 |
#3178 |
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This city's King's Road & Carnaby Street were hot scene of '60s fashion |
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THE '60s |
1998-05-20 |
#3173 |
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"Das Kapital" was written in this capital city |
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HISTORIC LITERATURE |
1996-07-04 |
#2744 |
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The Great Plague in 1665 & the Great Fire in 1666 nearly wiped out this city |
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HISTORY |
1991-04-02 |
#1527 |
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Though Paris led women's fashion in the early 1900s, this capital set men's styles |
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FASHION HISTORY |
1986-12-19 |
#530 |
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It was the world's largest city for the entire 19th century |
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HISTORY |
1985-05-28 |
#187 |
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13,000 houses were destroyed, but no one died in this city's "Great Fire" of 1666 |
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HISTORY |
1985-04-26 |
#165 |