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We’ve already heard about an earlier disease that plagued the island of Great BritainGreat Britain – and much of Europe too – in the middle of the 14^th century. In 1666, one year after another less serious plague had ravaged LondonLondon, the Great FireGreat Fire not only destroyed the carriers of the plague but also a great part of London. Sir Christopher WrenWren, Christopher, EnglandEngland’s greatest architect of the time, was in charge of rebuilding the city and not only left his mark in St. Paul’s CathedralSt. Paul’s Cathedral but also in modernizing London with broad streets and stone houses instead of the medieval walls, narrow lanes, and wooden houses that had characterized London before ( 11).