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Benevolent and sympathetic in disposition, he won the affection of his people by fearlessly visiting districts ravaged by cholera or devastated by earthquake in 1885.

it raced across the Pacific at 300 miles an hour, devastated the coasts of Java and Sumatra with waves 100 to 130 feet high, and pounded the shore as far away as San Francisco.

In the last war Russia lost more than ten million killed and its lands and factories were devastated.

He is devastated and later confesses to Kat and Albert, who try to comfort him and reassure him that it is only part of the war.

The gods were speechless and devastated, unable to react due to their grief.

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

* 1892 – St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.

which devastated much of the inhabited city as well as harbour areas.

His efforts were inspired after a visit to Taunton's Musgrove Park Hospital whilst receiving treatment for a broken toe ; when he took a wrong turn into a children's ward, he was devastated to learn that some of the children had only weeks to live, and why.

The city was devastated during the 1952 Cairo Fire, also known as Black Saturday, which saw the destruction of nearly 700 shops, movie theatres, casinos and hotels in Downtown Cairo.

The king was devastated at his failure to obtain a son after all the effort it had taken to remarry.

In July 2005 Balsall Heath was hit by a tornado, which devastated many buildings around Church Road and Ladypool Road.

Buddy escorts the " emotionally devastated " Sally, while Phyllis helps Ben regain his dignity before they leave, all with the promise to work things out later.

Greater Poland was so devastated that it ceased to be the core of Polish Kingdom.

They attempted to declare independence, causing a fire to break out in Pointe-à-Pitre that devastated a third of the town.

After World War II, the devastated city along with all of Pomerania east of the Oder-Neisse line became Polish, and the remaining Germans either fled or were expelled.

Blyton adored her father and was devastated after he left the family to live with another woman ; this has often been cited as the reason behind her emotional immaturity.

Neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone have accused Liberia of backing rebels who have devastated their countries.

The Iran – Iraq War depleted Iraq's foreign exchange reserves, devastated its economy, and left the country saddled with a foreign debt of more than $ 40 billion.

The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba usually begins with Kenneth, but some variants include a reference to Kenneth's father: " was killed in Galloway, after he had entirely destroyed and devastated it.

Turkey's most severe earthquake in the twentieth century occurred in Erzincan on the night of December 28 – 29, 1939 ; it devastated most of the city and caused an estimated 160, 000 deaths.

Kahn argued that for deterrence to succeed, the Soviets had to be convinced that the United States had a second strike capability, in order to leave no doubt in the minds of the Politburo that even a perfectly-coordinated, massive attack would guarantee a measure of retaliation that would leave them devastated as well:

Meanwhile, Maurice was making plans for resettling devastated areas in the Balkans by using Armenian settlers.

Within 40 years, the near-four billion-strong American chestnut population in North America was devastated ; only a few clumps of trees remained in California and the Pacific Northwest.

The Georgian poets, who ( Pound had decided ) were the Imagists ' sworn enemies, he devastated with the accusation of "' The Georgians were regional in their outlook and in love with littleness.