Our view of the Vikings is bloodthirsty men who raped, pillaged and plundered. |
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However, the Phocaeans had plundered and pillaged the area and the Tyrrhenians and Carthagenians united against them. |
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At the same time, we were a mongrel nation, pillaged and settled in turn by a variety of cultures, from Norse and Celtic to Anglo-Saxon. |
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There was also wide-ranging destruction in the countryside, particularly affecting the fortress towns, which were pillaged and despoiled. |
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She also ran a grocery store which hardly made any profit, since it was also the family food-stock and we, the children, pillaged it mercilessly. |
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Many soldiers carried small Leica or Ermanox cameras in their rucksacks or pillaged optical equipment from the towns they occupied. |
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In 1661, a Dutch fleet pillaged its temples and maltreated monks, the only inhabitants. |
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Mercenaries had grown exponentially, and trade routes were risky, the merchant ships pillaged. |
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His characters stay in a hotel annexed to the British Museum, so they're absorbed into its hoard of pillaged imperial trophies. |
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The West has raped and pillaged much of the rest of the world in the name of progress and living in comfort, but that can't go on indefinitely. |
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What if those Fascist Romans had not raped, pillaged and plundered the Ancient Britons? |
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They also reportedly joined looters who pillaged other lucrative targets like office buildings, stores, and private homes. |
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They raided and pillaged, then headed back across the North Sea in their longships. |
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Taxes in turn became tribute, or protection money, paid to a local warlord to prevent lands from being pillaged. |
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Their ghastly killings still strike fear, dread and disgust in the communities they pillaged. |
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At first they looted, burned and pillaged and then sailed off back to Denmark or Norway, heavily laden with gold and slaves. |
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European countries raped and pillaged the continent, destroying the social fabric and leaving a metaphorical smoking hole behind. |
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The sight reminded me of a war torn city ravaged and pillaged by the plunder of war. |
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Some watched helplessly as postcard makers pillaged their original works, without ever compensating them for their art. |
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He said last night the move would prevent the waters from being looted and pillaged by other EU members, and introduce effective conservation of fish stocks. |
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The charge that did him in was minor compared with the money he pillaged, but it nonetheless sunk him. |
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In his submissions to the Court, the applicant denied that his comrades had pillaged Mazie Bati. |
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Tottenham Court Road was pillaged by a mob of sixty hardcore anarchists. |
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Most of the outlying towns and villages of the empire had already been pillaged and destroyed, mere husks of buildings remaining to mark where prosperous towns once were. |
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The Euphronios krater had allegedly been pillaged by tomb looters in Italy. |
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Since then, the militia, supported by the government, have murdered and raped thousands of African villagers, and looted and pillaged villages across the region. |
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For centuries one of the most important abbeys of Europe, was also pillaged and destroyed by the Saracens. |
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All parties then proceeded to loot Congo's minerals, as innumerable local militias slaughtered and pillaged. |
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Thieves in medieval Russia believed that if they carried a candle made of the fat of a murdered virgin when they pillaged churches, they wouldn't get caught. |
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We might consider the example of Africa, whose cultural treasures were pillaged and not only during a time of conflict. |
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Some have seen their houses destroyed or pillaged and are wary of the dangers of the landmines and unexploded ordnance littering the capital. |
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An estimated 80,000 people were displaced as a direct result of the violence, their homes having been destroyed or pillaged. |
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The French resisted as best as they were able, but could not prevent Pentagoët and Jemsec from being taken and pillaged. |
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The three men that pillaged the home of John Smith of Tombrien, and subjected the elderly man to a terrifying ordeal made off with only a small amount of money. |
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The banks, which provide credit and cash, have been looted, irrigation systems destroyed, road travel restricted, markets closed, warehouses and grain silos pillaged. |
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When some Ndebele challenged this Shona dominance in the 1980s, his army's notorious Fifth Brigade murdered, raped and pillaged its way through Matabeleland. |
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The Oprichniki burned and pillaged Novgorod and the surrounding villages, and the city was never to regain its former prominence. |
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On the one hand, many of them harassed and pillaged the Chinese, which gave them a genuine grievance. |
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May 3: The Royal Navy shells and destroys an Amerindian village at Hesquiat, British Columbia, because they pillaged a ship that had run aground and killed its survivors. |
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In so doing, the United States recognized that it is a major destination for pillaged archaeological and ethnological material and documented articles of stolen cultural property. |
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One year ago, when the situation in Iraq was one of great turmoil, the National Museum of Baghdad was savagely pillaged to the stupefaction of the whole international community. |
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Those same groups pillaged and burned the offices of humanitarian agencies and non-governmental organizations, while their staff were molested and chased from their houses, which were also vandalized. |
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Rampaging Fijians pillaged the city centre, looting mainly Indian shops. Hundreds of ethnic-Fijian supporters of Mr Speight have entered the Parliament gardens, passing through a porous police cordon. |
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The British and Americans, who had to take refuge in the fort, were powerless to stop them, and for two days watched their camp being destroyed and pillaged. |
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Since the occupation, more than 500 Greek Orthodox monasteries and churches had been pillaged, burned or converted into secular institutions, and stolen art and ceremonial objects had been smuggled. |
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After the marble flooring had been pillaged, a series of cavities were dug into the floor, the material was used as the foundations of structures placed in the hall, which may include the church of Saint. |
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Houses had been looted, water and electricity lines ploughed up, ministries pillaged and offices wrecked. Before he arrived, Mr Powell played downs hopes of an agreement. |
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The Ottoman powers in Athens cared nothing for the ruins of Greek antiquity, and had already pillaged them for building stone or bricked them up for gun-placements. |
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Despite the peace agreements signed in August, 2000 and the swearing-in of a new government agreed upon in the November, 2001 accords, the civil war drags on and people continue to be massacred and pillaged. |
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Additionally, it is not possible to determine precisely the number of cultural objects that have been and continue to be pillaged from Iraqi archaeological sites and illicitly trafficked. |
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Combatants have also pillaged and destroyed school supplies. |
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Starting a business may not be worth the trouble if it increases the visibility of the entrepreneur as a possible target, or if capital is likely to be pillaged. |
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It is therefore crucial that this resource not be allowed to be pillaged and devastated, as others have been, by the negligence and irresponsibility of our local and national governments. |
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Each unique backcourt was an adventure playground with walls to be climbed, chasms to be leaped and dustbins to be raked through and pillaged. |
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We do not know who the centurions who pillaged the kingdom were and who sent them. |
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In 1346, Edward invaded France and pillaged the countryside rather than attempt to hold territory. |
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Margaret gained the support of the Scottish queen Mary of Guelders, and with a Scottish army she pillaged into southern England. |
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In 1001, the Danes returned and pillaged Portsmouth and surrounding locations, threatening the English with extinction. |
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For example, British troops looted and pillaged the locals during an aborted attack on Charleston in 1779, enraging both Patriots and Loyalists. |
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The Vikings pillaged monasteries on Ireland's west coast in 795 and then spread out to cover the rest of the coastline. |
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The Hungarians pillaged mainland Europe, the Pechenegs raided Bulgaria, Rus States and the Arab states. |
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The Vikings pillaged monasteries on Ireland's west coast in 795, and then spread out to cover the rest of the coastline. |
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A king's expedition arrived in and pillaged Lisbon in 798, probably concerted with the Carolingians. |
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By the time the new King returned to Lisbon, many of the buildings and properties were pillaged, sacked or destroyed by the invaders. |
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The Wild Beggars pillaged churches and monasteries, cutting off the noses and ears of priests and monks. |
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These troops pillaged Abkhazia, defeating the ill-armed Abkhaz. |
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Eighteen per cent pillaged their nest eggs to pay for emergency car or home repairs. |
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In name alone, Genghis Khan conjures up notions of a ruthless, bloodthirsty warrior who pillaged lands far and wide. |
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But for decades to come, the southern borderland was annually pillaged by the Nogai Horde and the Crimean Khanate, who took local inhabitants with them as slaves. |
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While many buildings were pillaged, burned, or destroyed by the Viking raids, ecclesiastical sources may have been overly negative as no city was completely destroyed. |
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Perusia also was pillaged and burned as a warning for others. |
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The formation of military religious orders scandalised the Orthodox Byzantines, and Crusaders pillaged countries they crossed on their journey east. |
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Huns attacked in Thrace, overran Armenia, and pillaged Cappadocia. |
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Crusaders often pillaged as they travelled, and their leaders generally retained control of captured territory instead of returning it to the Byzantines. |
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He did not explain why the Romans pillaged the kingdom, why they took the lands of the chiefs or why Boudica was flogged and her daughters were raped. |
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Over the coming day, Wellesley grew increasingly concerned over the lack of discipline among his men, who drank and pillaged the fortress and city. |
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At the orders of the British commander Lord Elgin, the British and French forces burned and pillaged the Old Summer Palace of the Chinese Emperor. |
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