The devastating effects of the fire converted the development of insurance " from a matter of convenience into one of urgency, a change of opinion reflected in Sir Christopher Wren's inclusion of a site for ' the Insurance Office ' in his new plan for London in 1667.

In 1668, Wilkins proposed using Christopher Wren's suggestion of a pendulum with a half-period of one second to measure a standard length that Christiaan Huygens had observed to be 38 Rhineland or English inches ( 997mm ) in length.

A few days later Wren's mother-in-law, Lady Coghill, arrived to take the infant Christopher back with her to Oxfordshire to raise.

The plain stone plaque was written by Wren's eldest son and heir, Christopher Wren, Jr.

The white building on the left is sometimes identified as Christopher Wren's house during the building of St Paul's Cathedral.

*' Scientists and Craftsmen in Sir Christopher Wren's London ', lecture by Professor Allan Chapman, Gresham College, 23 April 2008 ( available in text, audio and video formats ).

Today, the dominating feature of the grounds is the great landscaping scheme constructed for Sir Christopher Wren's intended new palace.

Other buildings and structures within the grounds are separately grade I listed, including the early 16th-century tilt yard tower the only surviving example of the five original towers ; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for Queen Anne and George I ; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls.

The building was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor ( Christopher Wren's greatest pupil ) and built between 1711 and 1715 to house the Press's printing operations.

Central Greenwich Town contains a UNESCO World Heritage Site centred on Christopher Wren's Royal Naval College and the Old Royal Observatory.

* The Tuareg are the antagonists of the French Foreign Legion in Percival Christopher Wren's 1924 adventure novel Beau Geste and the films that were based on it.

Brides, one of Sir Christopher Wren's new churches.

The architecture of the chapel is a reduced version of Christopher Wren's Thomas Tower at Christ Church College in Oxford.

As dean of Westminster he directed Christopher Wren's restoration of the abbey.

They became increasingly common in Baroque architecture, and are a feature of Christopher Wren's churches.

Parentalia ( 1750 ) was a memoir of the Wrens, undertaken in conjunction with Sir Christopher Wren's grandson, Stephen Wren.

His gravestone features a paraphrase of Christopher Wren's epitaph: " SI QUÆRIS MONUMENTUM, CIRCUMSPICE " (" If you seek his monument, look around you ").

The Queen's House, though it was scarcely being used, provided the distant focal centre for Sir Christopher Wren's Greenwich Hospital, with a logic and grandeur that has seemed inevitable to architectural historians but in fact depended on Mary II's insistence that the vista to the water from the Queen's House not be impaired.

The building's most recent incarnation was designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1672 in Fleet Street in the City of London, though Wren's original building was largely gutted by fire during the London Blitz in 1940.

At its southern end, the street begins near Christopher Wren's Monument to the Great Fire of London, at a junction with King William Street, Eastcheap and Cannon Street.

The concept of an acropolis and a building that agreed with renowned British Architect Sir Christopher Wren's theory that a public building should be a national ornament which establishes a nation, draws people and commerce and makes people love their country easily persuaded the then powers that be, who were at the time, preoccupied with the ideal of establishing a new and united nation.

In 1749, when Sir Christopher Wren's drawings were sold, Gwynn obtained Wren's plan for the rebuilding of the City of London, and published it, adding some comments of his own.

* An engraving showing the medieval church and Sir Christopher Wren's spire.

Christopher Columbus, on his first voyage to the Americas, sailed south from what is now the Bahamas to explore the northeast coast of Cuba and the northern coast of Hispaniola.

When the Church of St. Luke in the Fields was founded in 1820 it stood in fields south of the road ( now Christopher Street ) that led from Greenwich Lane ( now Greenwich Avenue ) down to a landing on the North River.

A year later Christopher Columbus on his fourth voyage, sailing south and eastward from upper Central America, explored Bocas del Toro, Veragua, the Chagres River and Porto Belo ( Beautiful Port ) which he named.

They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer ; John, born after Dorothy, who went to sea and died in 1805 when the ship of which he was Master, the Earl of Abergavenny, was wrecked off the south coast of England ; and Christopher, the youngest, who entered the Church and rose to be Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Their former home, the Cartoon Gallery on the south side of the Fountain Court, was designed by Christopher Wren ; copies painted in the 1690s by a minor artist, Henry Cooke, are now displayed in their place.

; Dor-en-Ernil: Literally, the " Land of the Prince ", located in the south of Gondor ; its boundaries are not stated, but Christopher Tolkien assumed that it spanned both sides of the highlands in Belfalas.

The first English plantations along the south shore within present-day Isle of Wight were established by Puritan colonists, beginning with that of Christopher Lawne in May 1628.

From Arizona State Route 260 between mile markers 284 and 285 ( east of Christopher Creek and west of Heber / Overgaard ), go south along SR 288 for about.

Two additions were made to Black Hawk, by William P. Records, Daniel A. Allen and Christopher M. Allen, May 15, 1839, consisting of sixteen lots on the north of the original town plat, and eight lots on the south.

It is probable that in December 1753, George Washington, accompanied by Christopher Gist, pushed his way across Fox Chapel land as he came south from Fort Le Boeuf where he had delivered a letter to the French commander, ordering him, in the name of the Governor of Virginia, to return to Canada.

* Hurst, Richard, " My Bay ", Christopher Street ( New York: February 1994, issue 210 ), ISSN 0146-7921 ( written by a former Levittowner about Little League baseball, " the only tradition in our otherwise ahistoric lives of glass-ceiling experimental schools and clean theme-park summers ," recounting summers marching as the season began from Carl Sandburg Middle School to the ball fields south of Twin Oaks )

Ann's Court, built on the land to the north of Old Court and south of West Road, is the newest court: it is named after Ann Dobson, who together with her husband Dr Christopher Dobson ( who matriculated at Selwyn in 1957 ) formed the Ann D Foundation, which is one of the principal donors towards the construction costs of Phases I and II.

Because St. Christopher offered protection to travelers and against sudden death, many churches placed images or statues of him, usually opposite the south door, so he could be easily seen.

By the time the antiquary John Stow wrote his Survey, the Tabard was one among a crowd of inns that lined the thoroughfare that led south from London Bridge towards Canterbury and Dover, " many fair inns, for receipt of travellers, by these signs: the Spurre, Christopher, Bull, Queen's Head, Tabard, George, Hart, King's Head " & c. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries " the Tabard of the Monastery of Hyde, and the Abbot's Place, with the stable and gardens thereunto belonging " were sold to John and Thomas Master.

* Giovanni Bellini ( SS Vincent Ferrer, Christopher and Sebastian in the south aisle )

Christopher Street is the oldest street in the West Village, as it ran along the south boundary of Admiral Sir Peter Warren's estate, which abutted the old Greenwich Road ( now Greenwich Avenue ) to the east and extended north to the next landing on the North River, at present-day Gansevoort Street.

In 1961 Jane Jacobs, resident in the area and author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities published that same year, headed a group that successfully stopped Mayor Robert Wagner's plan to demolish twelve blocks along West Street north of Christopher Street, including the north side of Christopher Street to Hudson Street, and an additional two blocks south of it, slated for " urban renewal ".

The street extends from Christopher Street one block south to Waverly Place, between and roughly parallel to Sixth and Seventh Avenues.

When Cooper's father Judge William Cooper settled in what is now Otsego County, New York in the mid 1780s, Shipman lived alone in a small cabin in the hills south of the village of Cooperstown, a squatter on the land of Cooper's neighbor John Christopher Hartwick.

Ornaments of like nature are common in south and even Central America, at least as far north as Honduras, as described by Christopher Columbus when he discovered this latter country during his fourth voyage ( 1502 ).

Ninth Avenue originates just south of West 14th Street at Gansevoort Street in the West Village, and extends uptown for 48 blocks until its intersection with West 59th Street, where it is re-signed as Columbus Avenue — named after Christopher Columbus.

Terry's new work has a portico based on the south portico of St Paul's cathedral designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

In the film, Doc Brown ( Christopher Lloyd ) uses the mall's south parking lot ( visible in the above photograph ) to stage his time travel experiments with the DeLorean time machine.