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Many believed it was destroyed in a catastrophic fire.
It's possible the fire destroyed part of the sprawling collection, but we know from ancient writings that scholars continued to visit the library for centuries after the siege.
People in my generation have heard about saving the rainforest since we were kids, and it seems that the message has never changed: We've got to save the rainforest, it's super urgent, this many football fields have been destroyed yesterday.
I don't know what it is to have seen my whole town destroyed.
Our boat crashing onto the rocks, I slipped into the water and destroyed my camera, whatever I had documented.
Anger is a power, anger is an energy, and the law of nature is that energy can never be created and never be vanished, can never be destroyed.
Unfortunately, all his Spinosaurus bones were destroyed in World War II.
Just last year, activists invaded and destroyed a field trial in the Philippines.
But rebuilding destroyed homes, restoring order, ensuring a representative political system, these are just as, if not more important, and not just for the security of civilians in Iraq and in Syria, but for our own security and for global stability.
And the particular display was built about six years ago, and when we moved from one room to another room, a rather large person sat on it and it got destroyed.
The risks associated with 9/11 will not be measured in terms of lives lost by terror attacks or buildings destroyed or trillions of dollars spent. They'll be measured in terms of the costs of our distraction from critical issues and our inability to get together scientists, technologists, government leaders, at a moment of transformation akin to the beginning of the Renaissance, akin to the beginning of the major transformational eras that have happened on Earth, and start coming up with, if not the right answers, then at least the right questions.
The school had been destroyed, livelihoods had been destroyed, their harvest had been destroyed.
Their homes, their businesses, their towns and their cities have been completely destroyed.
It is the only old building in the government district that was not destroyed during the Second World War, and it sits right next to the Federal Chancellery.
Tropical forests and other ecosystems are being destroyed, climate change, so many species on the brink of extinction: tigers, lions, elephants, rhinos, tapirs.
But their habitat is being destroyed, and they have been hunted out of several parts of their geographic distribution.
They have had to move, and every parliament session, I'm getting complaints from different communities asking for assistance to build seawalls, to see what we can do about the freshwater lens because it's being destroyed, and so in my trips to the different islands, I'm seeing evidence of communities which are now having to cope with the loss of food crops, the contamination of the water lenses, and I see these communities perhaps leaving, having to relocate, within five to 10 years.
But for the first time, at the beginning of this year, the Cyclone Pam, which destroyed Vanuatu, and in the process, the very edges of it actually touched our two southernmost islands, and all of Tuvalu was underwater when Hurricane Pam struck.
And I've just come back from my own constituency, and I've seen these beautiful trees which had been there for decades, they've been totally destroyed.
But just a second later, most matter and all of the antimatter had destroyed one another, producing an enormous amount of radiation that can still be observed today.
Hollywood movies like to pick on our sun by showing Earth destroyed by solar flares or the sun dying out, which would cause Earth to freeze.
The Law of Conservation of Mass implies that mass can neither be created nor destroyed, which means that our hero's mass will not change just because his size changes.
As farming took off, people might have spurned bugs as mere pests that destroyed their crops.
Well, it's made from tomatoes, pulverized, smashed, thrashed, utterly destroyed tomatoes.
But what really saved them was likely the same phenomenon that has destroyed countless others: a tsunami.
Song: Before God destroyed the people on the Earth, he warned Noah to build an Ark.
This work of art was almost destroyed because of that.
And so after complaints and insistence of trying to get this work destroyed, it was finally the year that Michelangelo died that the Church finally found a compromise, a way to save the painting, and that was in putting up these extra 30 covers, and that happens to be the origin of fig-leafing.
That's where it all came about, and it came about from a church that was trying to save a work of art, not indeed deface or destroyed it.
The climate-related historic drought that started in Syria in 2006 destroyed 60 percent of the farms in Syria, killed 80 percent of the livestock, and drove 1.5 million climate refugees into the cities of Syria, where they collided with another 1.5 million refugees from the Iraq War.
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