не стрелять

[raf_sh]

...English writer Aldous Huxley described the Resurrection by Piero della Francesca which is in the Museo Civico as "the greatest painting in the world". It also houses other work by Piero della Francesca and by Santi di Tito, Raffaellino del Colle and Luca Signorelli.

Sansepolcro escaped artillery fire during World War II because the British captain charged with the task had read the essay by Huxley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansepolcro

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[polouact.livejournal.com]

по легенде, изложенной m_bezrodnyj, Гельдерберг избегнул бомбардировок, так как в предвоенной Америке был популярен мюзикл о Гельдербергском университете, и американские летчики просто отказались бомбить этот город.
Вики, правда, легенду не подтверждает

[raf-sh.livejournal.com]

В Лёвене (Бельгия) немцы в I м.в. разрушили и сожгли знаменитую библиотеку из принципа, в трезвом уме и здравой памяти. Чтобы не сопротивлялись. То же во II м.в.

[raf-sh.livejournal.com]

Вот в Вики о Лёвене:
In the 20th century, both World Wars inflicted major damage to the city. Upon German entry in World War I, the town was heavily damaged due to the German Schrecklichkeit policy. The Germans shot the mayor, university rector and all the city's police officers.[3][4] The university library was deliberately destroyed by the German army on August 25, 1914, using petrol and incendiary pastilles. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts were lost.[5] The world was outraged over this and the library was completely rebuilt after World War I with American charity funds and German war indemnities. Thousands of its citizens fled to the countryside, to other cities but also to Holland, England and France. A number of them were also deported by the Germans to Germany. The sack of Leuven became a element in the propaganda war. One of the films, The German Occupation of Historic Louvain was produced September 20, 1914. The film was shown world wide i.e. Holland, Costa Rica, Canada and France.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuven

[polouact.livejournal.com]

спасибо.

что касается Гельдерберга (то есть, в смысле - Гейдельберга), то его снесли с лица земли французы, во время войны за пфальцское наследство в конце XVII века - совсем.
как и другие города, вдоль Рейна.

долгая это европейская история, всякое случалось.

[raf-sh.livejournal.com]

Да уж. Повеселились от души. С древних времен.