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On All Saints’ Day, 1 November 1755, as crowds packed the churches to honor the dead, Lisbon and parts of Portugal all the way to the Algarve were devastated by one of the worst earthquakes ever recorded.
In an air raid by 130 B29s, Tokyo was devastated and 100,000 of its inhabitants perished.
In contrast to Mallorca, Menorca’s economy was devastated for decades.
It's hard to recall a more chilling stretch in modern movies than the one before the last big battle, when the American soldiers, surrounded by the debris of a devastated town, listen to the echoey, piped-in strains of an Edith Piaf recording--and then hear the first low rumbles of approaching German tanks, each man alone in the shared knowledge that this foreign music will likely be the last they'll hear.
Sponge gathering was devastated after a fungus attacked the crop, and sisal was produced more cheaply in South America.