Manningham Ward Labour Club was firebombed by rioters on 7 July 2001, trapping 23 people inside.

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Canning Circus police station in central Nottingham was firebombed by a male gang on Tuesday evening.

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In Nottingham three police stations were attacked and one was firebombed by a gang of between 30 and 40 men.

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In 1945, an Italian musicologist found four bars of a sonata's bass line in the remnants of the firebombed Dresden Music Library.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Cellist Of Sarajevo'

McCain's campaign on Wednesday sent out an e-mail with a statement from John Murtagh, who said his home was firebombed by the Weather Underground in 1971.

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If, after several hours, this hope doesn't return, he will pause to gather himself, and then he and his cello will coax Albinoni's Adagio out of the firebombed husk of Dresden and into the mortar-pocked, sniper-infested streets of Sarajevo.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Cellist Of Sarajevo'