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  2. Genocide definitions - Wikipedia

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    The term is from the Greek word genes meaning tribe or race and the Latin cide meaning killing. Genocide tragically enough must take its place in the dictionary of the future beside other tragic words like homicide and infanticide. As Von Rundstedt has suggested the term does not necessarily signify mass killings although it may mean that.

  3. Collateral damage - Wikipedia

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    "Collateral damage" is a term for any incidental and undesired death, injury or other damage inflicted, especially on civilians, as the result of an activity. Originally coined to describe military operations, [ 1 ] it is now also used in non-military contexts to refer to negative unintended consequences of an action.

  4. Destruction - Wikipedia

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    Destruktion, a term from the philosophy of Martin Heidegger; Destructive narcissism, a pathological form of narcissism; Self-destructive behaviour, a widely used phrase that conceptualises certain kinds of destructive acts as belonging to the self; Slighting, the deliberate destruction of a building; Final destruction, the end of the world

  5. Eschatology - Wikipedia

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    The word "eschatology" arises from the Ancient Greek term ἔσχατος (éschatos), meaning "last", and -logy, meaning "the study of", and first appeared in English around 1844. [4] The Oxford English Dictionary defines eschatology as "the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind".

  6. Names of the Holocaust - Wikipedia

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    The term is sometimes used in a broader sense to include the Nazi Party's systematic murder of millions of people in other groups they determined were "Untermenschen" or "subhuman", which included, besides the Jews, Slavs, including Ukrainians, Poles, Russians, Serbs, Czechs, the former having allegedly infected the latter, and also, the Romani ...

  7. Iconoclasm - Wikipedia

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    The fall of Communism in 1989–1991 was also followed by the destruction or removal of statues of Vladimir Lenin and other Communist leaders in the former Soviet Union and in other Eastern Bloc countries. Particularly well-known was the destruction of "Iron Felix", the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky outside the KGB's headquarters.

  8. Vandalism - Wikipedia

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    This new use of the term was important in colouring the perception of the Vandals from later Late Antiquity, popularizing the pre-existing idea that they were a barbaric group with a taste for destruction. [2] Historically, vandalism has been justified by painter Gustave Courbet as destruction of monuments symbolizing "war and conquest ...

  9. Scorched earth - Wikipedia

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    He was aided by other Indian tribes with long-standing enmity toward the Navajos, chiefly the Ute tribe. The Navajo were forced to surrender because of the destruction of their livestock and food supplies. In the spring of 1864, 8000 Navajo men, women, and children were forced to march 300 miles to Fort Sumner, New Mexico.