" A number of attempted fire insurance schemes came to nothing, but in 1681 Nicholas Barbon, and eleven associates, established England's first fire insurance company, the ' Insurance Office for Houses ', at the back of the Royal Exchange.

First, in 1681, a slave named Maria tried to kill her owner by setting his house on fire.

" A short entry in the autobiography of Anthony à Wood for August 31, 1681 describes how Stephen College was hanged in the Castle Yard, Oxford, " and when he had hanged about half an hour, was cut down by Catch or Ketch, and quartered under the gallows, his entrails were burnt in a fire made by the gallows ".

He is most associated with the reconstruction of Trondheim, Norway after the great fire of 1681.

Section of Cicigon's city plan for Trondheim, after the great fire of 1681

The fire in Trondheim on April 19, 1681 ( Hornemansbrannen ) led to an almost total reconstruction of the city.

It was built after the city fire of Trondheim in 1681 to protect the city against attack from the east.

It was built after the city fire of Trondheim in 1681 to protect the city against attack from the east.

General Johan Caspar von Cicignon, who was chief inspector of kuks fortifications, was responsible for the new town plan of Trondheim after the great fire of 18 April 1681.

Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.

Shortly thereafter he began work as a fire prevention engineer ( i. e., an inspector ) for the Hartford Fire Insurance Company.

Early installments gave them a juvenile obsession with fire and dangerous behavior, summed up with Beavis ' chant of " Fire!

In new episodes after the 2011 revival Beavis is now allowed to say fire again ; the first words uttered by Beavis in the first video segment of the 2011 premiere episode were: " Fire!

Fire Bet: Before the shooter begins, some casinos will allow a bet known as a fire bet to be placed.

Wands are traditionally associated with fire and still are in most tarot decks, however, increasingly decks are being published with Swords associated with Fire.

Somerset County Council is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education, social services, the library, roads, public transport, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning, although fire, police and ambulance services are provided jointly with other authorities through the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, Avon and Somerset Constabulary and the South Western Ambulance Service.

The most effective kind of ammunition though involved fire, such as “ firebrands, and deadly Greek Fire ”.

At the time of Domitian's accession the city was still suffering from the damage caused by the Great Fire of 64, the civil war of 69 and the fire in 79.

* 1933 – Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.

Fire barrier walls are continuous from an exterior wall to an exterior wall, or from a floor below to a floor or roof above, or from one fire barrier wall to another fire barrier wall, fire wall, or high challenge fire wall having a fire resistance rating of at least equal rating as required for the fire barrier wall.

* Fire rating-Fire walls are constructed in such a way as to achieve a code-determined fire-resistance rating, thus forming part of a fire compartment's passive fire protection.

* Openings – Openings in Fire walls, such as doors and windows, must be fire rated as fire door assemblies and fire window assemblies.

# One day after the Reichstag fire on February 27, 1933, President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg, acting at Hitler's request and on the basis of the emergency powers in article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, issued the Reichstag Fire Decree.

* Dark Fire, a novel by C J Sansom in which Greek fire plays a prominent part

# Fire: For the first blind date, Harold sets himself on fire on the diving board in view of the horrified girl, then calmly walks in behind her with his body still apparently burning outside the window.

* 1944 – The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.

According to Fundinn Noregr, Ægir is a son of the giant Fornjótr and brother of Logi (" fire ") and Kári (" wind ").

In the Pali literature, the mahabhuta (" great elements ") or catudhatu (" four elements ") are earth, water, fire and air.

In Argentina, an asado ( Spanish for " grilled ") is prepared on a grill held over an open pit or fire made upon the ground, on which a whole animal or smaller cuts are grilled.

A shotgun usually retains its ancestor's smooth bore, and while originally designed to fire a packet of relatively small shot pellets, is also capable of firing larger slugs, or specialty ( often " less lethal ") rounds such as bean bags, tear gas or breaching rounds.

The first chronicled use of " fire spears " ( or " fire lances ") is at the siege of De ' an in 1132.

But then, says Cleanthes, Zeus uses the fire to " straighten out the common logos " that travels about ( phoitan, " to frequent ") mixing with the greater and lesser lights ( heavenly bodies ).

The head of the household would smother ( or " smoor ") the fire and rake the ashes smooth.

A common aiming system is to alternate solid (" ball ") rounds and tracer ammunition rounds ( usually one tracer round for every four ball rounds ), so shooters can see the trajectory and " walk " the fire into the target, and direct the fire of other soldiers.

The MAC-10 ( also known as the " Ingram Model 10 ") and MAC-11 ( also called the " Ingram Model 11 ") were 1970s blowback designed weapons with the magazine in the pistol grip and a fire selector switch.

The square in front of the cathedral ( sometimes called the Neuer Markt, or " new marketplace ") was occupied by an imperial palace ( Kaiserpfalz ), which was destroyed in the fire of 1207.

The geomagnetic storm – like E3 pulse ( from the test designated as " Test 184 ") even induced an electric current surge in a long underground power line that caused a fire in the power plant in the city of Karaganda.

") Conversely, " fire " is frequently used as a mass noun, but " a fire " refers to a discrete entity.

The crew's performance improves and Vostrikov decides to carry out the K-19's first mission, which is to surface in the Arctic and fire an unarmed (" test ") ballistic missile.

Those hardened forts had also been equipped with regular field guns installed in reinforced concrete bunkers (" Casemates de Bourges ") looking sideways, thus providing flanking fire across the intervals between the forts.

") The Hayman fire was named for a mining ghost town near Tappan Gulch.

Ningizzida has been popularised in the 20th C. by Raku Kei Reiki ( a. k. a. " The Way of the Fire Dragon ") where " Nin Giz Zida " is believed to be a fire serpent of Tibetan rather than Sumerian origin.

* Noctiluca ( sea ghost or " fire of sea ")

When ergotism ( more popularly known in the Middle Ages as " St. Anthony's fire ") afflicted many victims, the crypt of the original church became a hospital to care for the sick.

* mogionti ( Ionic pyressousi ) " they are on fire, have fever " (= Attic mogousi " they suffer, take pains to ")