It and the rampaging of revolutionary militias that followed in its wake turned it into the most destroyed city in Libya.
During my month in Libya, I watched a country slowly being destroyed, city by city, town by town.
And a key factor is the hurricane that almost destroyed the City.
Mr. SITES: It was amazing, because there was a carpet - there were two carpet-bombing campaigns that happened in Chechnya, destroyed the city.
He said the work looked at the theme of the child in the city in a positive light, unlike the Victorian, negative view of children somehow being destroyed by the city.
Riots destroyed the central city Meikhtila following a market brawl March 20, leaving at least 40 people dead and displacing thousands.
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She had found, for instance, that one of Mr Bellesiles's sources mid-19th-century probate records from San Francisco County had been destroyed in the city's famous earthquake of 1906.
Even the conquest of northern India, a feat, so Mr Marozzi rather breathlessly assures us, that surpassed the achievements of both Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great, amounted to no more than a raid that destroyed a noble city and left tens of thousands dead.
Homes and businesses throughout the city were destroyed, officials said, bringing back memories of a 1947 twister that wiped out city blocks in Woodward and killed more than 100.
Strongholds in and around the city have been destroyed, including defensive positions on the outskirts of the city.
When a city is destroyed, what can we say of the buildings that rise in its place?
That policy was made clear this week when city inspectors destroyed illegal buildings in both Jewish and Arab neighborhoods.
Almost overnight, the Oklahoma City attacks destroyed the scant credibility of the type of right-wing militia groups that McVeigh had associated with.
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Louis before alien terraforming technology destroyed most of the city.
That is despite the ravages wrought by hurricanes in August and September, which not only destroyed a major port city but closed down a big chunk of the energy industry.
Millions are annihilated, every major city has been destroyed, but nobody you really like has died.
Palestinian sources say an air attack destroyed a mosque in Gaza City but there has been no independent confirmation of this.
"About 30% of the city has been destroyed, so a large number of people have lost their homes, " said WFP spokesperson, Lara Melo.
Mr. PAJAUD: I'm trying to capture my unbelievable awe that that city has been destroyed like it has, and it'll never be the same.
The prince arrived in Saudi Arabia after visiting the south of Iran to see the devastation caused by the earthquake which destroyed much of the ancient city of Bam.
The British bomb in Koblenz, now covered by just 16 inches of water, is thought to have been dropped in the night of Nov. 6, 1944, when Royal Air Force planes blanketed Koblenz with bombs and destroyed much of the inner city.
By the war's end, air raids had destroyed some 80% of the city.
"Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans -- virtually a city that has been destroyed -- that things are going relatively well, " Brown said.
In the past few years, much of what remained to make China's capital an extraordinary city has been systematically destroyed in favour of characterless boulevards and brutalist, bathroom-tile-clad architecture, all choked by a cloud of traffic pollution.
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If the early reports of no deaths or major damage hold, the quake would stand in stark contrast to Mexico's 1985 earthquake that measured 8.0 in magnitude, killed thousands of people and destroyed thousands of buildings in Mexico City, including hospitals, office towers and hotels.
And yet, she keeps the pieces of her destroyed BMW 650 in her New York City apartment.
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