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Previous years' kanji have not been much cheerier: In 1995 "earthquake" took the honors; in 1996 a mass food poisoning scandal led to the victory of "food"; and 1997 was represented by "bankruptcy."
The Los Angeles Times , which fronts the story, leads with the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that shook the Mojave Desert at 2:46 a.m.
After earlier earthquake damage, the temple was used as the Capitolium and city treasury.
400); the city of King Priam, described in the Iliad and the Odyssey, is thought to be either Troy VI, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1275 b.c. , or its successor Troy VIIa.
Though the town was settled by the Romans, it was one of the Algarve towns most damaged from the earthquake of 1755, and as a consequence has few buildings or monuments of historical interest.