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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 ...
[27]: 2321 For example, the decline of sea ice in the Arctic has been accelerating during the early twenty‐first century, with a decline rate of 4.7% per decade (it has declined over 50% since the first satellite records). [28] [29] [30] One well known example of a species affected is the polar bear, whose habitat in the Arctic is threatened ...
A major dictionary of the Xhosa language; copies of historic Xhosa language newspapers, papers by Ray Alexander Simons, and archives of papers relating to many anti-apartheid movements. [19] The fire completely gutted the Library's Reading Room. [20]
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 ...
See photos of people taking questionable selfies: Number 2.Rock collecting. The hobby is enjoyed by many, but there are some specimens best avoided. Among them is Hutchinsonite, as inhaling its ...
There are examples of libraries accidentally destroyed by human actions. Others were damaged by natural disasters like earthquakes, floods or accidental fires. Library fires have happened sporadically through the centuries: notable examples are the destruction of the Library of Alexandria , the destruction of Library of Nalanda in India and the ...
Identicide [1] [2] [3] is the deliberate, systematic and targeted destruction of the places, symbols, objects, including ideas, values and aesthetica, and other cultural property that represent the identity of a people, with the intent to erase the cultural narrative and memory of that people, demoralize a population, absorb it into another cultural/political entity, or to rid an area of that ...
Tori Spelling is opening up about how life has become less than stable since separating from estranged husband Dean McDermott in June 2023.. On the latest episode of her podcast Misspelling, which ...