The continuous controversy between the emperor and Confucian scholars who advocated a return to the old feudal order culminated in the famous burning of the books of 213, when, at Li Si's suggestion, all books not dealing with agriculture, medicine, or prognostication were burned, except historical records of Qin and books in the imperial library.
On September 21 , 2012 a mob burned down a historical church in Mardan, about 60 kilometers from the city of Peshawar, to avenge the controversial movie Innocence of Muslims, produced by an American writer, which was considered blasphemous.
Red Guards had smashed up temples, burned books and destroyed historical treasures.
HISTORIC ALLAIRE VILLAGE "Who Burned Down the Forest," a historical vignette about the fire that burned down several hundred acres of woodland belonging to James P. Allaire in the spring of 1836.
"The files that were burned down today were also of historical significance.
Jan Van Deusen Jr., Kortright's second cousin, saved New York's historical records when the British burned the state's first capital to the ground in 1777.
In contrast, historical fire records indicate that only ~4% (~67,000 ha) burned during the previous 50 years (Gibson and Morgan 2009), although earlier data likely under-represent actual area burned due to inconsistent mapping and record keeping (Gibson 2006).
The scriptwriters even relocated a temporary orphanage for black children, to replace the one burned during the riots, from the Five Points to farther uptown in the interest of historical credibility.
But those of us cognizant of what happened to civilization after the great library in Alexandria burned down can only think with trepidation of what the Central Plan is going to do to the historical memory of New York".
We first modeled fire spread, hazard and exposure metrics under historical extreme fire weather conditions, including node influence grid for surface fire pathways, crown fraction burned and fire transmission to residential structures.
