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The present state of the cathedral owes much to Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, who from 1845 to 1863 painstakingly restored it following the ravages of the 18th century, caused more by pre-Revolutionary meddlers than by revolutionaries who stripped it of religious symbols.
Scarcely a hundred Sumatran Rhino remain; the best place to see them is at the Sepilok sanctuary, where controlled breeding may combat the ravages of poaching.
It lasted until 1848, and it is estimated that more than one million people died and as many emigrated to escape the ravages of the catastrophe.
It "might have been more honestly called Hilly Buttocks I Have Known ," says James Wolcott in the Wall Street Journal . Those who don't dismiss it as salacious gossip laud its revelations about gay New York writers, especially the poet James Merrill, and its depiction of the ravages of AIDS.
The pipeline's negative environmental impact and the ravages of the Valdez spill are downplayed.