In 1988, 167 men died in the Piper Alpha oil platform explosion in which sea off Britain?

Portraits of Spain's 8-year-old Infanta Margarita and her brother, painted in 1659, were the last works completed by wh… In 1666, a great fire destroyed much of which capital city? The word "pandemonium", the capital of Hell, was coined in which 1667 epic poem? 1669 and 1852 were bad years to vacation near which Sicilian volcano? Which architect designed London's St Bride's Church in the 1670s, whose tiered spire is said to have inspired the weddi… In 1678, Father Louis Hennepin became the first European to describe which landmark on the U.S.-Canada border? In 1685, which dying king reportedly said of his mistress Nell Gwyn, "Let not poor Nelly starve"? In 1687, gunpowder stored by the Ottoman Turks exploded during a Venetian siege, wrecking which Athens landmark?