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The Stoning of Achan by Gustav Doré.Achan pillaged gold, silver, and a costly garment from Jericho, and was punished by stoning. [1]Herem or cherem (Hebrew: חרם, ḥērem), as used in the Tanakh, means something given over to the Lord, or under a ban, and sometimes refers to things or persons to be utterly destroyed.
The Carmen de San Ángel Convent and its library were also totally destroyed (with a few books recovered), other affected convent libraries to different degrees were those of Santo Domingo, Las Capuchinas, Santa Clara, La Merced and the Church owned school Colegio de San Juan de Letrán, among others, all of them in Mexico City. Similar events ...
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.
Cultural genocide or culturicide is a concept first described by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, in the same book that coined the term genocide. [1] The destruction of culture was a central component in Lemkin's formulation of genocide. [ 1 ]
Meaning: If you aren't weighing yourself at a consistent time each day, expect to see different numbers on the scale. Eating or drinking anything adds weight, even the healthy stuff.
Library-book or -materials vandalism, sometimes termed intentional destruction of books or materials [citation needed] or book or material mutilation [1] is the act of damaging or defacing library books or other library holdings. It is a considerable loss of resources for libraries with high rates of vandalism.
(Reuters) -Alphabet's Google asked a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday to throw out a jury verdict and a judge's order forcing it to revamp its app store Play. In its first detailed argument to the ...
The College Football Playoff got underway Friday but the main course is spread out through Saturday. Three first-round games will be played across three separate campus sites from State College ...