Sentences with phrase «which destroyed the town»

These waves propagated freely over the reef flat and even steepened at the beach into a turbulent breaking wave, which destroyed the town's seawall and many houses behind it.

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Inquisitions, by contrast, usually succeed: The Catholic Church succeeded in stamping out broadly held heresies, as in the Albigensian Crusade of 1220 - 1229, which destroyed between 200,000 and 1,000,000 inhabitants of Cathar - controlled towns in Southern France.

There is a town called Duras Europa in Syria which was destroyed about 250 AD; both the synagogue and the church in town were covered with scenes from the bible.

Mr. Van Scoyoc criticized the Republican candidates for supervisor and town board, who he said «started very early opposing the wind farm» and are «trying to drive a wedge» between residents over the project's potential to impact the commercial fishing industry, members of which fear that the wind farm's construction and operation will destroy critically important habitat.

Damasio's colleague Dan Tranel did experiments in which people were shown a series of emotionally powerful images — towns destroyed by earthquakes, people drowning in floods — and monitored their body's autonomic response, which is partially regulated by the amygdala.

Bluett also witnessed the much larger 1994 eruption of Mount Tavurvur and neighboring Mount Vulcan, which destroyed nearly all of the port town of Rabaul, where she lived at the time.

An event 8 years prior resulted in a resurgence of Oni (demons) attacks on the populace, which destroyed major towns and put the humans on the back foot.

In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shapeshifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.

A film based on historic events of the 1923 Rosewood Massacre during which a racist white mob destroyed an entire black town.

Then random people will hire you for certain objectives (the quests) the main story is about a small town (your town) which is terrorised by a big monster causing quakes, in your town area, destroying it, the destruction must end, that's where you come in.

The island is well known for the 1973 eruption of the volcano Eldfell, which destroyed half the town and almost closed the harbor, which is the island's main source of income.

Visit the Ruins of 16th Century Guiob Church, the church of the Old Catarman town which was destroyed and partly submerged by volcanic fragments during the eruption Mt. Vulcan in 1871.

There is a skirmish mode, with randomly generated levels and Ravenii, which is basically just a horde mode which tasks you with killing as many Ravenii before a town is destroyed.

Conflict during the Second World War destroyed much of the town's landmarks, which were rebuilt in less than spectacular form.

The name of the town references the circular shaped ancient Native American earthwork mounds which have since been destroyed.