Other examples in Hebrew religious literature include the dispersion of the builders of the Tower of Babel ( Genesis 11: 1-9 ), the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ( Genesis 18: 20-21, 19: 23-28 ), and the Ten Plagues visited upon the ancient Egyptians for persecuting the children of Israel ( Exodus, Chapters 7-12 ).

Both Moses of Chorene and Jerome end at Nectanebo II (" last king of the Egyptians " and " destruction of the Egyptian monarchy " respectively ), but XXXI fits within Manetho's schemata of demonstrating power through the dynasteia well.

The sura describes destruction of disbelieving peoples, such as Ancient Egyptians and the people of Iram of the Pillars.

" Later, after saying modern buildings rarely last more than fifty years, he continues: " The ages-old stone buildings of the Egyptians and the Romans still stand today as powerful architectural proofs of the past of great nations, buildings which are often ruins only because man's lust for destruction has made them such.

The destruction of Sharuhen was merely the first stage of a new policy of pre-emptive warfare waged by the Egyptians.

DeMille was, however, adept at directing " thousands of extras ", and many of his pictures included spectacular set pieces, such as the parting of the Red Sea in both versions of The Ten Commandments, the toppling of the pagan temple in Samson and Delilah, train wrecks in The Road to Yesterday, Union Pacific and The Greatest Show on Earth, and the destruction of a zeppelin in Madame Satan.

* 1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.

The Soviet answer on 4 May admonished Tito and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia ( CPY ) for failing to admit and correct its mistakes, and went on to accuse them of being too proud of their successes against the Germans, maintaining that the Red Army had saved them from destruction.

Commonly cited as examples are the Allies ' aerial destruction of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo, Hamburg and Dresden, the systematic murder and rape of East Germans by the Red Army, etc.

On the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945 held in Moscow, Soviet Union in June 1945, the Red Army commemorated Victory in Europe with a parade and the ceremonial destruction of captured Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS standards.

The species is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List and is threatened by habitat destruction and human population growth and movement, though commercial poaching is the most prominent threat.

Liu had refused to do battle against the Red Army, to save his own military from destruction.

Red Squadron was essential to the destruction of the Death Star at the Battle of Yavin.

Then, Red Skull / Lukin activated a Sleeper, a robot programmed for mass destruction, that was presumably created by Doctor Doom.

During World War II, Braunsberg was occupied by the Soviet Red Army following the Braunsberg Offensive Operation ( 13 March 1945-22 March 1945 ) following the elimination of the German Heiligenbeil Pocket, and suffered heavy destruction due to fighting and subsequent looting.

Also presented was a short animated ' prequel ' to the story in the style of the upcoming feature-length film detailing the Martians ' ecological destruction of their own world ( which was originally made for the 1998 computer game Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds ) and their preparations to invade Earth, and including a short remix of " The Red Weed ".

It was also claimed that they converted to Judaism, and that they left Egypt at the Exodus to accompany Moses and the Israelites ; however, they perished on the way, either at the Red Sea, or the destruction of the Golden Calf, or at the slaughter of Korah and his followers.

Elizabeth, whose prudence and parsimony were averse to so formidable an undertaking as the complete subjugation of the powerful Irish chief, desired peace with him at almost any price ; especially when the devastation of his territory by Sussex brought him no nearer to submission, after Shane's dramatic destruction of much of Sussex's withdrawing army at the Battle of the Red Sagums, 18 July 1561.

Instead, Red Tornado was captured and used as a conduit to bring Earth-One and Earth-Two together, the Creators hoped the destruction of the two worlds would release enough energy to construct a new planet.

Later in the series, Tenma encounters Wolf on his deathbed after the destruction of the Mansion of Red Roses ; before he dies, he begs Tenma to yell out his name as proof he existed.

With no limits imposed, no guidance offered, no one assuming responsibility for what occurred, and the Red Guards merely following their impulses, the assault upon their elders and the destruction of property grew completely out of control.

In 1966, John McNaughton, Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, proposed the destruction of the Red River Valley dams and dikes in order to flood rice paddies, disrupt the North Vietnamese food supply, and leverage Hanoi during negotiations ; then-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, however, rejected the idea.

This species is classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, though it was classified as Vulnerable before 2011 due to hunting and destruction of its wintering wetland habitats.

After the Russian Revolution of 1917 and during the Soviet antireligious campaign of the 1920s, the government plan called for the cathedral's destruction and transformation of the grounds into a park " Heroes of Perekop " ( after a Red Army victory in the Russian Civil War in Crimea ).

He was relieved of his command in March 1944 for ordering the 8th Army to retreat when it was in danger of destruction by the Soviet Red Army, in explicit violation of Adolf Hitler's orders.

* An unidentified man used the Nova powers to lead Earth's criminals in the conquest of Earth and destruction of the heroes only to be killed when Doctor Doom and the Red Skull turned on him out of jealousy.

Due to the failure of the 6th Army to breakout and the attempt to break the Soviet encirclement, the Red Army was able to continue the destruction of German forces in Stalingrad.

With the German relief effort defeated, Stavka was free to concentrate on the destruction of Axis forces in the Stalingrad pocket and the westward expansion of the Red Army's Winter offensive.

One of his major efforts was the destruction of Red Orchestra and Rote Drei espionage networks.

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.

Before the destruction, the Dead Sea was a valley full of natural tar pits, which was called the vale of Siddim.

Sea otters are vulnerable to oil spills and the indirect effects of overfishing ; the black-footed ferret, a relative of the European polecat, suffers from the loss of American prairie ; and wolverine populations are slowly declining because of habitat destruction and persecution.

A further theory, mentioned by Egyptian hieroglyphs, is that the destruction of the palaces is related to the attacks of the mysterious Sea Peoples who destroyed the Hittite Empire and then attacked the 19th then the 20th dynasties of Egypt.

It has also resulted in the utter destruction of the female Choedan Kal and its access key, which triggered the mass suicide of Amayar along the Islands of the Sea Folk, who believed the giant statue's destruction to signal the end of their Age of Illusion.

* The destruction of the Egyptian fleet by the Macedonians ends the naval supremacy of the Ptolemies but does not force them to relinquish their territories in Syria and the Aegean Sea.

It has been suggested by theologians that the destruction of the cities of the Jordan Plain by divine fire and brimstone may have caused Siddim to become a salt sea, what is now the Dead Sea.

Led by Civilis, they inflicted huge casualties on the Romans, including the destruction of a Roman fleet by a Germanic one off the North Sea coast.

While groups such as Animal Liberation Front and Sea Shepherd claim that destruction of property is not violence, US and international law include acts against property in the definition of violence.

Consequently, the Ross Sea has become a focus of numerous environmentalist groups who have campaigned to make the area a world marine reserve, citing the rare opportunity to protect the Ross Sea from a growing number of threats and destruction.

However, the destruction of the Japanese carriers had been the prime goal of Pacific naval battles up to that point, and the failure to pursue the Japanese fleet carriers and destroy them had been a major criticism of Spruance, whose Fifth Fleet missed the opportunity at the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

The destruction presaged the scorched earth tactics of Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia — deny an army a base from which to operate and bring the effects of war home to the population supporting it.

Today, however, the destruction of the Aral Sea has rendered Karakalpakstan one of Uzbekistan's poorest regions.

He agreed with Grant and Sherman on the implementation of total war toward the Southern economy and endorsed both Sherman's March to the Sea and Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's destruction of the Shenandoah Valley.

Hurricane Gilbert was an extremely powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane that formed during the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season and brought widespread destruction to the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

The Nutmeg of Consolation opens with Aubrey and his crew shipwrecked on a remote island in the South China Sea after surviving the destruction of HMS Diane in a typhoon.

This dialect is primarily found from the 1st to the 4th century AD, corresponding to the Roman Period after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and represented by the bulk of the Mishnah and Tosefta within the Talmud and by the Dead Sea Scrolls, notably the Bar Kokhba Letters and the Copper Scroll.

Following the destruction of the main ABDA naval force under Rear-Admiral Karel Doorman, at the Battle of the Java Sea, in February – March 1942, ABDA effectively ceased to exist.

* Black Sea Cossack Host formed a few years after the destruction of the Zarporozhiya.

In 1709, Tsar Peter I ordered the destruction of the Old Sich, forcing the Zaporozhian Cossacks to flee to Oleshky, on the Black Sea in Ottoman territory.