An inventor provided water-pumping engines to a city, successfully averting a disaster equivalent to the Great Fire of 1666.

The entities involved

• Nuremberg →

  city in the German state of Bavaria

  Nothing else this week.

• Amsterdam →

  capital and most populous city of the Netherlands

  • Colonial history is noted to date back to the 17th century, involving England and Amsterdam.Mon 15:49
  • Scott Marshall leads the Institute for Shipboard Education, which operates out of Amsterdam and utilizes IJmuiden and Bremerhaven as primary ports for cruise line transfers and ship turnarounds.Mon 13:47
• London →

  capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom

  • Helen Flanagan is leading a suspected state-threat investigation through Counter Terrorism Policing in London.Mon 17:49
  • Linton, an artist, is performing in residences in Cambridge and Hanoi, while working and living in Berlin, and maintains a professional presence on Instagram.Mon 17:24