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The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.
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The conservation leader said other mistakes in spraying had caused serious damage in Ohio and Wyoming.
It is possible that Johnston's duel in 1837 had caused nerve damage or numbness to his right leg and that he did not feel the wound to his leg as a result.
The pain from arthritis is due to inflammation that occurs around the joint, damage to the joint from disease, daily wear and tear of joint, muscle strains caused by forceful movements against stiff painful joints and fatigue.
The localizationist model attempts to classify the aphasia by major characteristics and then link these to areas of the brain in which the damage has been caused.
This type of aphasia is caused by brain damage that isolates the parts of the brain from other parts of the brain that are in charge of speech.
Armour or armor ( see spelling differences ) is protective covering used to prevent damage from being inflicted to an object, individual or a vehicle through use of direct contact weapons or projectiles, usually during combat, or from damage caused by a potentially dangerous environment or action ( e. g., cycling, construction sites, etc .).
Hurricanes are powerful storms, which form in tropical waters and have historically cost thousands of lives lost and caused billions of dollars in damage.
Due to rioting and damage to shops caused by incendiary devices, an estimated total of worth of damage had been done to local businesses.
Saint Paul viewed the Nativity of Jesus as an event of cosmic significance which by the Incarnation of Christ brought forth a new world of harmony to undo the damage caused by the fall of the first man, Adam.
In 1971 a magnitude-6. 6 earthquake in San Fernando caused some damage to the Caltech campus.
* Cortical blindness, the total or partial loss of vision in a normal-appearing eye caused by damage to the visual area in the brain's occipital cortex
However, they are vulnerable to over-fishing, mining for construction materials, pollution, and damage caused by tourism.
The Puerto Rican scheme was successful and halted the economic damage caused by the beetles, prompting scientists in the 1930s to promote it as an ideal solution to agricultural pests.
Impairments caused by local brain tissue damage on the bleed site are also possible, including seizure, one-sided weakness ( hemiparesis ), a loss of touch sensation on one side of the body and deficits in language processing ( aphasia ).
The phrase has come to mean any injury, damage or harm ( physical or otherwise ) caused to a third party due to the action of belligerents.
Central pontine myelinolysis ( CPM ) is neurological disease caused by severe damage of the myelin sheath of nerve cells in the brainstem, more precisely in the area termed the pons, predominately of iatrogenic etiology.
The event, which involved exploding disco records, ended with a riot, during which the raucous crowd tore out seats and pieces of turf, and caused other damage.
: Water shortages ; soil eroding into the sea damages coral reefs ; deforestation ; damage caused by Hurricane George
Controversy erupted when photographs taken after Potter's climb appeared to show damage caused by a climbing technique called top roping.
It caused severe damage to London and Bristol and uprooted millions of trees and killed over 8, 000 people, mostly at sea.
The attack killed at least 243 people and caused immense damage to the town.
The Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping also began to reduce the PRC's support for revolutionary struggles abroad throughout this period so as to reduce the damage it caused to trade relations with the West.
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The loss in growth of sawtimber because of damage by destructive agencies in the United States in 1952 was estimated to be about 44 billion board feet.
Man may also be injured secondarily by damage to his food crops or domestic animals.
Too much damage is done by `` experts '' who have spent even less time, if any at all, in the U.S.S.R..
The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.
They are distinguished by the nerve cells affected ( upper and lower motor neuron ), and the symptoms that result from this damage:
Two of the five Albertosaurus sarcophagus specimens with humeri in 1970 were reported by Dale Russel as having pathological damage to them.
The buildings of the Acropolis suffered significant damage during the 1687 siege by the Venetians in the Morean War.
* Individuals with expressive aphasia ( also called Broca's aphasia ) were once thought to have frontal lobe damage, though more recent work by Dr. Nina Dronkers using imaging and ' lesion analysis ' has revealed that patients with Expressive aphasia have lesions to the medial insular cortex.
Shortly after the Thomas confirmation hearings, President George H. W. Bush dropped his opposition to a bill giving harassment victims the right to seek federal damage awards, back pay and reinstatement, and the law was passed by Congress.
Inevitably, the zinc coating becomes breached, either by cracking or physical damage.
The binding of nuclear receptors by glucocorticoids, heat, radiation, nutrient deprivation, viral infection, hypoxia and increased intracellular calcium concentration, for example, by damage to the membrane, can all trigger the release of intracellular apoptotic signals by a damaged cell.
p53 prevents the cell from replicating by stopping the cell cycle at G1, or interphase, to give the cell time to repair, however it will induce apoptosis if damage is extensive and repair efforts fail.
Police have subsequently been accused of brutality, torture and interference with the non-violent protests as a collateral damage provoked by the clash between the law enforcement ranks themselves and the more violent and brutal fringes of protesters, who repeatedly hid themselves amongst peaceful protesters of all ages and backgrounds.
Eight years have passed, and the city of Genoa is still trying to recover from the many damages provoked by the rioters, mainly devoted to crash cars, setting stores on fire, robbing banks and using any heavy or pointed object as a means to provoke damage to people and objects.
In some cases, that individual may take drastic measures to remove the offending appendages, either by causing irreparable damage to the limb so that medical intervention cannot save the limb, or by causing the limb to be severed.
Historian Garry Wills argued " Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have been a greater threat to freedom than the misguided and sedition laws, which were soon rendered feckless by ridicule and electoral pressure " The theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions was " deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion ".
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Military historians Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones cited the significant damage wrought to railroads and Southern logistics in the campaign and stated that " Sherman's raid succeeded in ' knocking the Confederate war effort to pieces '.
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: Sudden cloudbursts are common from October to April ; they bring heavy rain which can damage roads and houses ; sandstorms and dust storms occur throughout the year, but are most common between March and August
The attack on 28 March 1942 created a firestorm, that caused severe damage to the historic centre and the Bombing of Lübeck in World War II destroyed three of the main churches and greater parts of the built-up area.
* 1904 – The " most extensive flood in 135 years of local history " causes the Grand River to overflow its banks on March 24 – 27, leading to major damage and one death.
A significant reduction in winter rainfall has been observed with a greater number of extreme rainfall events in the summer months, such as slow-moving storms on 8 February 1992 which brought of rain, the highest recorded in Perth, and a severe thunderstorm on 22 March 2010, which brought of rain and caused significant damage in the metropolitan area.
* March 27 ( Good Friday ) – The Great Alaskan earthquake, the second most powerful known ( and the most powerful earthquake in the United States ) at a magnitude of 9. 2, strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
* March 28 – A fire in the City of London causes over a million pounds worth of damage.
On 4 March 1977, an earthquake centered in Vrancea, about away, claimed 1, 500 lives and caused further damage to the historic centre.
As an example, a German trench raid launched by 79 men against the 3rd Canadian Division on 15 March 1917 was successful in capturing prisoners and causing damage.
Two towns in Clarks county, Marysville and Henryville suffered major damage during the Early March 2012 tornado outbreak.
The earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 caused serious damage to three nuclear reactors and a spent fuel storage pond at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan.
On March 22, 1957 Daly City was again the epicenter of an earthquake, this one a 5. 3 magnitude quake on the San Andreas Fault, which caused some structural damage in Westlake and closed State Route 1 along the Westlake Palisades.
On March 14-15 there was a tornado outbreak across much of the southeast United States in which damage was inflicted on much of the City of Atlanta and its northwest suburbs such as Taylorsville.
On evening of March 2, 2012, an EF-4 tornado caused extensive damage to Henryville, killing at least 3 people.
In March 1997, the Licking River, which bisects Cynthiana, flooded, causing extensive damage in Cynthiana and neighboring communities.
On March 2, 2012, Salyersville was hit by a tornado which caused extensive damage to the business center and many homes.
On March 2, 2012, West Liberty was hit by an EF-3 tornado which caused extensive damage to the downtown area.
On Thursday, March 15, 2012, Dexter was struck by a large EF3 tornado causing substantial damage to local houses and businesses.
On March 26, 2010, at approximately 1: 30 a. m., the clock tower collapsed onto the main building, however the building as whole was only damaged on the second floor, and only had water and smoke damage throughout the rest of the building.
On 7 March 1949, a fire spread from the library roof ; over 300 printed books and the manuscripts on exhibition were completely destroyed, and over 3, 000 books needed repair, though the main structure suffered little damage and restoration took less than a year.
On March 23, 2011, a funnel cloud briefly appeared over the Greensburg and Hempfield areas just around 4: 45 PM and eventually touched down as an F2 tornado, causing widespread damage to scores of homes in the Fort Allen neighborhood and in neighboring Sewickley Township.
The evening of March 23, 1889, Liberty was hit by a tornado that uprooted trees and caused extensive damage to homes.
One, an EF-3 tornado, touched down in March 2011, and caused major damage and injuries, though no deaths.
On March 9, 1999 at 4: 40am, there was a bomb attack on the controversial Wehrmachtsausstellung exhibition next to Saarbrücken Castle, resulting in minor damage to the adult high school building housing the exhibition and the adjoining Schlosskirche church-but not causing any injuries.
Changing their tactics to expand the coverage and increase the damage, 279 B-29s raided on the night of 9 / 10 March, dropping around 1, 700 tons of bombs.
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