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How many people died in the Great Fire of London in 1666? Detailed answer Directory / Big encyclopedia. Questions for quiz and self-education Did you know? How many people died in the Great Fire of London in 1666? Five. Although the fire destroyed 13 homes, 200 churches, 87 local government buildings, and more than 44% of the city, the official death toll was less than half a dozen. Among them: the baker's maid who started it all; Paul Lowell, watchmaker from Shoe Lane; an old man who rescued a veil from St. Paul's Cathedral but suffocated himself in the smoke; and two others who collapsed into the basement while saving their belongings from the fire. We are unlikely to know the exact number of deaths. John Evelyn, the famous XNUMXth-century diary writer, wrote about "the stench coming from the corpses of the poor burned alive," and modern forensic science knows many examples when, under the influence of high temperatures, the corpse practically evaporated and, thus, could not be officially registered . Nevertheless, the unhurried pace of the fire (the city burned for five days) gave people the opportunity to safely evacuate, and five officially registered deaths is a perfectly acceptable figure. The reaction of the city authorities to the fire can not be called quick. On the very first night, the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Thomas Bloodworth, calmly returned to his bed, declaring that "even a woman can put out such nonsense - you just need to sit down and urinate properly," and Samuel Pepys found time to protect his wealth by burying " big head of parmesan" in my garden. The previous "Great Fire" (1212) in London killed 3000 people, and in the couple of years leading up to 1666, the plague claimed 65 lives. The fire stopped the plague by destroying the black rats along with their nests, however, according to various estimates, the cost of damage caused by fire was 000 million pounds. Given that the combined annual income of the City of London at that time was 10 million, it would theoretically take 12 years to cover the damage. More than 100 thousand people lost their roof over their heads. Many moved to the nearby town of Moorfields or built temporary shelters next to the burnt-out property. However, the pace of recovery was so fast that by 1672 the city was almost completely restored. The fire started in the royal bakery in Padding Lane, owned by the baker Thomas Farinor. At that time, Farinor stubbornly denied this shameful fact, which allowed Robert Hubert, a French watchmaker with exorbitant megalomania, to declare that the fire was the work of his hands. And although it was quite clear to the judge and jury that Hubert could not do this, the Frenchman was still sent to the gallows. The corpse of the hanged man was torn to pieces by an angry mob suspecting a papist conspiracy. Justice was only restored in 1986, when the Honorable Society of London Bakers claimed responsibility for the Great Fire and issued a formal apology to the townspeople. Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson Random interesting fact from the Great Encyclopedia: Where is the driest place on earth? In Antarctica. Some areas of this continent have not seen rain for two million years. It is widely believed that the driest place is the high-mountainous Atacama Desert in Chile, while it cannot be called a hot place - in summer the temperature there rarely rises above 17-18 degrees Celsius. Technically, a desert is a place where less than 254 mm of precipitation falls per year. In the Sahara, for example, they fall only 25 mm. The average annual rainfall in Antarctica is about the same, but 2% of the entire continent, known as the Dry Valleys, is completely free of ice and snow, and it never rains at all. The next driest place on Earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile. In some parts of it, rain has not been recorded for 400 years, and the average annual rainfall is a tiny figure of 0,1 mm. Such miserable indicators make the Atacama the second driest desert in the world - 250 times drier than the Sahara. However, Antarctica is not only the driest place on the planet. At the same time, the mainland claims to be the wettest and windiest. It is there, in the form of ice, that 70% of the world's water reserves are located, and the winds reach speeds that beat all world records. The unique natural conditions in the Dry Valleys region are caused by the so-called katabatic winds (from the Greek word meaning "down blowing"). They occur when cold, dense air descends down a hillside solely under the influence of gravity. Such winds can reach speeds of 320 km / h, completely evaporating the moisture encountered on the way - water, ice, snow. And although Antarctica, in general, is a desert, its driest parts, somewhat ironically, are called oases. They are so close to the natural conditions of Mars that NASA is testing the Viking landers there.
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