Fire
- University of Copenhagen Library (Copenhagen) – October 1728
- Cotton Library (Huntingdon, England UK) – 23 October 1731
- Library of Congress (Washington, D.C. USA) – 25 August 1814
- Birmingham Central Library (Birmingham, England) – 1879
- University of Virginia Library (Charlottesville, Virginia USA) – 27 October 1895
- New York State Library (Albany, New York USA) – 29 March 1911
- British Library (London, England UK) – World War II
- Jewish Theological Seminary library fire (New York City) – April 18, 1966
- Charles A. Halbert Public Library – 1982
- Dalhousie University Law Library (Halifax, Nova Scotia) – August 1985
- Los Angeles Central Library (Los Angeles, California USA) – 29 April and 3 September 1986
- Academy of Sciences Library (Leningrad, USSR) – 14 April 1988
- Iraq National Library (Baghdad, Iraq) – 15 April 2003
- Duchess Anna Amalia Library (Weimar, Germany) – 2 September 2004
Read more about this topic: List Of Destroyed Libraries
Famous quotes containing the word fire:
“Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful;
And pity to the general wrong of Rome—
As fire drives out fire, so pity pity—
Hath done this deed on Caesar.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“It haunts me, the passage of time. I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you. But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary.”
—Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)