In the ruined cities and towns of post-war Germany the causes of the destruction of an entire society were never discussed.
Bambuser, a Web site that enables users to stream live video from their phones, posted an alert to Twitter on Wednesday that one of its users in the town of Douma posted live video of victims from the attacks in Eastern Ghouta.
In 1776, the new Town of Cape Elizabeth posted a guard of eight soldiers at Portland Head to warn citizens of coming British attacks.
On Tuesday, cops in the coastal UK town of Blackpool posted a photo of the David Schwimmer look-alike clutching what appears to be a case of beer on Facebook, hoping that someone out there might recognize him.
Regardless of what was causing all of this, after a post office and bank were robbed in the neighboring town of Rio Real, the bank, post office, and all local businesses shut down in Jandaira and the inter-city bus service stopped running.
Mayor Donald Hobbs of Lohrville, Iowa, a town of 368 people, whose post office was targeted for closing, praised the Postal Service's new stance.
Similar things could be said of the British new towns of the post-war epoch, as well as the many inner-city regeneration projects of that vintage – though in the latter case the impetus was not so much the blind Corbusian faith in the clean slate, but what to do with entire districts flattened by Nazi bombing.
The town of Herbert with its post office established in 1904 has 742 residents now.
She suspected there could be more, so she drove to the nearest post office, in the town of Bluff, and saw more posted with printouts that people could take with them.
The police station, the town hall, the post office, four of six churches: None of them were left standing.
Until fairly recently, it seemed that cannas served mostly as bull's eyes in the center of Victorian circles, those little islands of blazing color stranded on the expansive lawn of the town bank or post office.
