"And I hate destroying piles of clothes.
But there are plenty of signs of destruction - eroded riverbanks, bridges destroyed, a pile of debris where a road once stood, a communication tower on its side.
The busy road, following the route taken by the Romans almost 2,000 years earlier, kept the site as open ground and preserved the remains from being destroyed by pile driving and foundations.
On March 31, Lao National Television reported that police raided businesses in the zone after the report was released and found illegal items in four "foreign-owned restaurants". They destroyed a pile of confiscated tiger pelts, bear feet and elephant ivory worth more than $12,000.
When I'm at home on the floor with the little one building (or, more commonly, destroying) a pile of blocks, I try to slow down, put the phone away, and focus on her.
With the coal piles destroyed and the threat of mines in the harbor, von Spee saw no meaningful purpose in making a landing.
Across the road, a British soldier was destroying a pile of Iraqi-issue Kalashnikov rifles with a sledgehammer.
Neighbors on Old Benton Road, whose homes were destroyed or damaged, piled furniture and other property onto open-air trailers.
Fourteen months later, many of those communities are still struggling to recover, with the rubble of destroyed buildings laying in piles and millions of felled coconut trees strewn across idle farmland.
Intense cyclones pummel Australia's northeastern coast 10 times more often than previously believed, according to a new analysis of piles of destroyed coral.
