Destitute, but fortunate to escape with his life, he was an Imperial prisoner at a camp in Fermersleben until, through the good offices of Ludwig of Anhalt-Cothen, a ransom of three hundred thalers had been paid.

Destitute and illiterate, he frequented doughnut shops in Rosemont ( one had to leave a message for him at Dunkin ' Donuts to reach him ), as well as Berri-UQAM metro station, where he sold postcards of himself and brochures outlining his life story.

The Prince of Wales Hospital had its origins in 1852 with the formation of the Society for Destitute Children which established the Asylum for Destitute Children with the first building opened on 21 March 1858 in Paddington.

Destitute and homeless he wanders the streets, getting tormented by two newsboys.

Destitute, Zhu Yuanzhang accepted a suggestion to take up a pledge made by his late father, and became a novice monk at the Huangjue Temple, a local Buddhist monastery.

Destitute of natural oratorical gifts and somewhat ungainly in his manner, he attracted and even riveted the attention of his audience by a rare combination of intellectual keenness, emotional fervour, spiritual insight and power of dramatic representation of character and life.

In January 1899, she was appointed superintendent of a home, run by the Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children in Washington, D. C ..

* March 19, 1927 Foundation of the Sisters of the Destitute ( SD ) at Chunungumvely, Kerala by Fr. Varghese Payapilly Palakkappilly.

Destitute, William rides in Ector's place to win the tournament and secure the prize.

Destitute, the family depended on the publication earnings of his wife Jessie.

In 1899, the various institutions and organizations were legally incorporated under the title of " The National Association for the Reclamation of Destitute Waif Children ", but the institution was always familiarly known as " Dr Barnardo ’ s Homes.

* Richardson, R. ( 2001 ) Death, Dissection and the Destitute ISBN 0-226-71240-0

A dedicated team at the Foundation identifies programs in the areas of Healthcare, Education, Culture, Destitute Care and Rural Development.

Destitute and jailed for vagrancy in the one-shot X-Factor: The Quick and the Dead, Quicksilver has a series of hallucinations and inexplicably regains his super speed.

Death, Dissection, and the Destitute.

Wood established the Catholic Home for Destitute Orphan Girls, enlarged St. Vincent's Home and founded a convent for the Sisters of the Good Shepherd.

The Library of Congress entitled the Migrant Mother image, " Destitute pea pickers in California.

Destitute in pea pickers ’ camp … because of failure of the early pea crop.

* Destitute Children ’ s Asylum Cemetery.

Berger, who wrote under the pen name Jeremiah Digges, went to Washington, D. C. in 1940 to become the editor of reports for the U. S. House of Representative Select Committee to Investigate Interstate Migration of Destitute Citizens.

Following a prolonged siege and a bloody struggle, in which Hannibal himself was wounded and the army practically destroyed, the Carthaginians finally took control of the city.

A large part of the Temple records from that time onwards were destroyed under the Bourbon Restoration, so that exact knowledge of the facts is practically impossible.

Nevertheless, it was burned during the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ) and practically all of its contents were destroyed with the exception of a few minor relics and choir seats.

It was named for John Stokes, an American Revolutionary War captain severely wounded when British Colonel Banastre Tarleton's cavalry practically destroyed Col. Abraham Buford's Virginia regiment in the Waxhaws region in 1780.

" Not until artillery was brought up ( by the United States Army ) and Mora practically destroyed did the insurgents yield.

Due to the experiments, Smallville has been practically destroyed.

The fire that is most remembered is the 1899 fire, which practically destroyed the town.

Though the fire practically destroyed the monument and left only the outer walls remaining, the church has since been rebuilt with a modern interior.

The school was only three months old when on January 11, 1898, a tornado struck Fort Smith and practically destroyed the new building.

The town was practically destroyed during the fighting in the area.

In 1900 it was reported that the value of Robinia pseudacacia was practically destroyed in nearly all parts of the United States beyond the mountain forests which are its home by locust borers which riddle the trunk and branches.

Warsaw in Poland had practically been razed to the earth during the 1944 uprising, Dresden in Eastern Germany had been totally destroyed by a bombardment in February 1945, Stalingrad had been destroyed during the battle and few houses if any were still standing.

The American divisions and the Polish parachute brigade that had fought south of the Rhine were relieved but the British 1st Airborne Division in Arnhem was practically destroyed.

The force of the logs and cut lumber, and the subsequent fires, practically destroyed the city.

When the player's squad is destroyed, the player may select a new squad to reinforce into battle 30 seconds later, which means it is practically impossible to kill off the enemy ; the player may also " retreat " their squad through a friendly spawn point to reinforce a new squad.

Glarus now contains but few houses built before 1861, for on the 10 / 11 May 1861 practically the whole town was destroyed by fire that was fanned by a violent Föhn or south wind, rushing down from the high mountains through the natural funnel formed by the Linth valley.

The creation of individual countries made life for the tribal Ik more difficult because they were forced out of their nomadic lifestyle into a settlement based around a newly founded national park that practically destroyed their livelihood by restricting their hunting grounds to specific non-park areas.

Part of the reason for the success in November 1941, was the arrival of the Royal Navy's Force K. It's forces successfully destroyed an entire Axis convoy during the Battle of the Duisburg Convoy, which practically blockaded Libyan ports.

Historian Digby Smith writes that the 35th was " practically destroyed ".

The town was practically destroyed in 1672 and 1673 during the volcanic eruption of Cabeço de Fogo ( the name of the central volcano on the island of Faial ).

She comes back to the resort with Ryan after the storm is over and sees that the whole resort is practically destroyed.

Unfortunately, the edifice, which is known to scholars as " A1 ," was practically destroyed by US aerial bombing in the Vietnam War and is now little more than a formless pile of bricks.

In 1956, the chapel was practically destroyed due to vandalism and the woodcarvings were sold, as the owners feared robbery.