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Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signing the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht. The term debellatio or "debellation" (Latin 'defeating, or the act of conquering or subduing', literally, 'warring (the enemy) down', from Latin bellum 'war') designates the end of war caused by complete destruction of a hostile state.
The phrase is sometimes fully adopted in modern usage and sometimes paraphrased, as a learned reference to the concept of total warfare. [16] In 1673, the English minister Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury revived the phrase in the form " Delenda est Carthago " in a speech before Parliament during the Third Anglo-Dutch War ...
The Kalavryta massacre (Greek: Σφαγή των Καλαβρύτων), or the Holocaust of Kalavryta (Ολοκαύτωμα των Καλαβρύτων), was the near-extermination of the male population and the total destruction of the town of Kalavryta, Axis-occupied Greece, by the 117th Jäger Division during World War II, on 13 December 1943.
[9] [2] Although the word basically means something devoted or given over to God (as in Leviticus 27:28), it often refers to "a ban for utter destruction". [2] There is also a homonym, herem, meaning fisherman's net, which occurs 9 times in the masoretic text and is regarded as etymologically unrelated, according to the Brown Driver Briggs ...
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Below, Bored Panda has compiled a selection of photos and videos capturing the devastating impact of Hurricane Helene across the Southeast. #1 Two Forgotten Dogs Get Rescued From Their Kennels Who ...
All of our wedding pictures are gone. Things that stand out are really weird. Like, I had just bought my wife a little turquoise ring for Christmas, and she tried to grab it, but ended up grabbing ...
Total body disruption is invariably fatal to most complex life, such as humans, as structures necessary for continued survival are destroyed or otherwise rendered non-functional. In the case of humans, the brain (if not destroyed) is deprived of oxygenated blood , while other organs (if not destroyed) are deprived of the involuntary functions ...