Whether slashed or burned or mutilated, the loss of works of art deprives everyone and enriches no one.
Since 1862 the Mutilated Currency Division of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing has pieced together partially destroyed American currency.
Ahmed Alsoudani, another Iraqi, showed strangely beautiful paintings that on close inspection revealed twisted and grotesque bodies mutilated by war.
Of the 25 human remains, 13 had deformed skulls and five had mutilated teeth (where they are filed into shapes).
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His mutilated body was found near the Dead Sea some days later.
The most feared cat in Wales, the alleged killer puma is said to have mutilated 50 sheep in Pontrhydfendigaid, near Aberystwyth, since 1995.
Was the same corpse exhumed and mutilated after Charles II came to the throne, ending Britain's brief experiment with republicanism and military rule?
With magnifying glasses, tweezers, scalpels and many gallons of disinfectant, the mutilated-currency specialists can spend up to two years analysing a single bill.
Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise), newly mutilated in the North African campaign, returns to Berlin and finds common cause with other disenchanted Nazis.
The sister of a woman whose mutilated body was found in a Dutch canal has told the Old Bailey that she had predicted her own death.
Danilo Restivo, who mutilated his neighbour in Bournemouth and was found guilty of another murder in Italy, was told he would receive a 40-year minimum term.
He is a holy fool, a young escaped convict inspired by the 2, 000-year-old philosophy of the Stoics, which he garners from a mutilated volume of Epictetus.
Officers found him 11 months later - but by that time Tobin had killed Miss Kluk and hidden her mutilated body under the floor of Glasgow's St Patrick's Church.
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The book begins as Pamela, back home from a British-style public school in Tientsin, is found mutilated in a ditch near one of the major gates in the city walls.
Deep bass notes throb below flashbacks to a teen's disappearance in the '60s, and "prepared" pianos (old uprights that the duo customized and sometimes mutilated) evoke sprung clockwork and madness or perhaps the caffeine buzz induced by all the coffee that the characters drink.
In October every year, the first rays of the rising sun reach across the Nile, penetrate the temple and move along the hypostyle hall, through the vestibule and into the sanctuary, where they illuminate the somewhat mutilated figures of Ra-Horakhty, Ramses II and Amun.
Hence, the Unabomber -- who killed three people and maimed and mutilated more than a score of others -- was treated with morbid curiosity by the press, as if he were a sideshow freak instead of a wicked, willful murderer who deserved to be put to death.
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