St Magnus-the-Martyr Great Plague of 1665, the City authorities ordered fires to be kept burning night and day, in the hope that the air would be cleansed. Daniel Defoe's semi-fictictional, but highly realistic, work "A Journal of the Plague Year" records that one of these was "just by St Magnus Church". Despite its escape in 1633, the church was one of the first buildings to be destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. St Magnus stood less than 300 yards from the bakehouse of Thomas Farriner in Pudding Lane where the fire started. Farriner, a former churchwarden of St Magnus,
Hasty Pudding Club rooms is "The Arena", which is a room with no windows or openings to the outside world. "The Arena" is designated as the club's game room. Conan O'Brien has great disdain for the Hasty Pudding Club. Hasty Pudding Club The Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 is a social club for Harvard students. The Hasty Pudding Club was originally established to bring together undergraduates in friendship, conversation, and camaraderie. The society was founded on September 1, 1795, by Horace Binney, who was then 15, by calling together a meeting of 21 juniors in the room of Nymphas Hatch. The club is