On the night of Feb. 9, 1529, an anti-papist crowd broke into the cathedral, smashing windows, defacing sculptures and consigning altarpieces to the flames.
CAIRO — Iranian protesters shouting "Death to England" stormed the British Embassy compound and a diplomatic residence in Tehran on Tuesday, tearing down the British flag, smashing windows, defacing walls and briefly detaining six staff members in what appeared to be a state-sponsored protest against Britain's tough new economic sanctions against Iran.
In 1997, Curtis and an accomplice twice defaced the windows of Filner's office with stickers depicting Nazi swastikas that included phrases such as "Hitler was Right," according to a federal indictment.
The police said he defaced a window at a Jack in the Box, destroyed a beauty shop door and was found one day with a semiautomatic rifle he had picked out of a garbage bin.
After the factory shut down in 1981, the building stood empty, its gutters dangling, windows broken and crumbling bricks defaced with graffiti.
The windows of the MidWest Cleaners had been defaced overnight with expletives scrawled in garish orange paint.
Separately, some activists staged sit-ins inside retail outlets held by companies they accuse of avoiding taxes; others defaced walls and smashed the windows of banks, hotels and posh shops.
The house is defaced by graffiti, paint smears and broken windows.
So we laid nuclear waste to their systems, owning their pathetic windows box, dropping their databases and private emails, and defaced their professional looking website".
This lineage stretches back to the Suffragettes, who smashed windows, set fire to letterboxes, chained themselves to railings and defaced paintings in the cause of women's right to vote - and, ultimately, prevailed.
