A major township fire in Cape Town last year burned nearly 1,000 shacks and displaced roughly 4,000 people.
It first opened in 1847, burned down in 1861, and was rebuilt in a single year.
The blaze, sparked by lightning a week ago, burned an additional 1,000 acres — 1.5 square miles — on Saturday.
The Wallow fire of 2011 burned an area nearly half the size of Delaware.
The first capitol, completed in 1794, burned in 1831 and was replaced by the present building, completed in 1840.
A fire in the same region in April 1995 burned some 20,000 acres.
An oil fire at the refinery at Milford Haven several years ago burned for at least a week.
The fire, believed to have been started by an unattended campfire on March 1, burned at least 2,100 acres.
For his pains, Menocchio was dragged before the Inquisition several times, tortured, and, in 1599, burned at the stake.
The schedule wore him down, and in 1996, burned out, he took a leave and booked a flight to Australia.
Other stars of the 1980s burned out, like Claude Montana and Thierry Mugler, both now in their 60s.
