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Examples of this include the removal of Diego Rivera's 1934 Man at the Crossroads mural from the Rockefeller Center and the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan statues by the Taliban government. Artworks destroyed in the September 11 attacks in the United States included a painted wood relief by Louise Nevelson , a painting from Roy ...
[Genocide is] the planned destruction, since the mid-nineteenth century, of a racial, national, or ethnic group as such, by the following means: (a) selective mass murder of elites or parts of the population; (b) elimination of national (racial, ethnic) culture and religious life with the intent of "denationalization"; (c) enslavement, with the ...
This is a list of cultural heritage sites that have been damaged or destroyed accidentally, deliberately, or by a natural disaster.The list is sorted by continent, then by country.
Paper shredder with built-in wastebasket Inner view of a paper shredder with motor Detail of a cross-cut paper shredder. A paper shredder is a mechanical device used to cut sheets of paper into either strips or fine particles.
The strike of the Brahmastra astra will eventually destroy everything. [citation needed] When Ashwatthama hurled the Brahmashtra against Arjuna, the Pandava countered by invoking the same weapon; to prevent widespread destruction, Narada and Vyasa stood between the two astras, ordering the two warriors to withdraw their weapons.
Total control of the authorities over information. Special services closely monitor public sentiment. Security forces stopping the smallest manifestations of anti-regime actions. Most publicly ...
Debris (UK: / ˈ d ɛ b r iː, ˈ d eɪ b r iː /, US: / d ə ˈ b r iː /) is rubble, wreckage, ruins, litter and discarded garbage/refuse/trash, scattered remains of something destroyed, or, as in geology, large rock fragments left by a melting glacier, etc. Depending on context, debris can refer to a number of different things.
In England and Wales, the offence is created by section 1(1) of the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929: (1) Subject as hereinafter in this subsection provided, any person who, with intent to destroy the life of a child capable of being born alive, by any wilful act causes a child to die before it has an existence independent of its mother, shall be guilty of felony, to wit, of child ...