• until it was looted in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade, the Church of the Holy Apostles was the busiest place of worship in Constantinople?
• in the United Kingdom, the military offence of looting carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment?
• J.T. Alley, police chief of Lubbock, Texas, vowed in 1970 to shoot looters taking advantage of his city's devastating tornadoes?
• Anastasio Aquino led a rebellion of El Salvador's indigenous Nonualco tribe in the early 19th century, sacking the city of San Vicente in the then-Federal Republic of Central America?

Facts on topics related to Looting

Los Angeles

• Manson Family member Paul Watkins gave testimony to the Los Angeles District Attorney which helped explain Helter Skelter?
• LA's St. Cecilia Church, built in 1927, adapted to its multiethnic community by installing shrines to a beatified Nigerian priest, a Oaxacan Virgin, and a Guatemalan "Black Christ"?
• Los Angeles considered changing the name of the geographic region known as San Fernando Valley in 2002 to San Angeles, the same name used for the fictional city in the 1993 movie Demolition Man?
• Los Angeles-based hip hop group Black Eyed Peas have released two number one albums in both Australia and Switzerland, but have yet to achieve the same on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100?
• Hall of Famers Don Drysdale and Don Sutton each made seven Opening Day starts for the Los Angeles Dodgers since the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958?
• Monica C. Lozano is the publisher and Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles-based La Opinión, the largest Spanish language newspaper in the United States?
• Pink Dot is a Los Angeles–based chain of grocery stores that offers delivery service of groceries, deli food, cigarettes, and alcohol?
• Rancho Los Encinos near Los Angeles was founded in 1797, and raised cattle, sheep and wheat, and was a stagecoach stop, before becoming a real estate subdivision with Los Encinos State Historic Park at its heart?
• Sylvia Levin registered more than 47,000 new voters in the Los Angeles area, an individual record both in California and the United States?
• You Chung Hong, the first Chinese American admitted to practice law in California, helped develop the new Chinatown in Los Angeles in the 1930s, including designing its neon-lit gateway?

New York City

• African-American gay and transgender Ali Forney, once homeless himself, had a homeless LGBT youth center in New York City named after him for his work helping other youths?
• architecture critics praised the Art Deco Ghostbusters Building, in New York City, when it opened in 1929?
• Australian singer Lana Cantrell, a 1968 Grammy Award nominee for Best New Artist, later became an entertainment lawyer in New York City?
• Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Raven" while living at what is now called Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Fordham section of The Bronx in New York City?
• Hal the Central Park Coyote got his nickname from his temporary lair in Hallett Nature Sanctuary (pictured) in Central Park, New York City?
• Leo Tolstoy's play The Living Corpse played in New York City in both Yiddish (1911) and German (1916) before it was ever presented there in English (1918)?
• New York City authorities asked the Museum of Sex not to locate itself within 500 feet of a church or school?
• New York City has been working on the Second Avenue Subway project since 1919?
• New York City's Ramaz School, with 1,100 students in 2007, was named for Rabbi Moses Margolies and founded by his grandson Rabbi Joseph Lookstein, whose son was in the opening class of six in 1937?
• New York City's Central Park West Historic District contains only one building not felt to contribute to its historic character?

Nevada

• Arizona Territorial Governor Frederick A. Tritle presented Nevada's silver spike at the ceremony celebrating completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad?
• CBS's Harts of the West featured Beau Bridges and his father, Lloyd Bridges, in a comedy/western set at the fictitious Flying Tumbleweed Dude Ranch in Nevada?
• Nevada Governor John Henry Kinkead (pictured) was the first United States official to hold office in Alaska?
• Captain & Tennille now reside in Nevada, United States?
• Eilley Bowers (pictured) is one of the most researched, written and talked-about women in Nevada history?
• Joe Dini, the owner of Dini's Lucky Club, a casino in Yerington, Nevada, was the longest serving member of the Nevada State Assembly?
• Terence Tolbert, Nevada state director for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, died of a heart attack at age 44, two days before the 2008 U.S. presidential election?
• Augustasaurus' name comes from the mountain range of northwestern Nevada, where its fossilized bones were first discovered?
• City is a massive work of earth art by Michael Heizer that has been under construction for over thirty years in the Nevada desert?
• because of liberal divorce laws in the U.S. state of Nevada, the Riverside Hotel in Reno catered specifically to wealthy divorce-seekers?

Moscow

• Moscow is home to an estimated 35,000 stray dogs, about 500 of which live in the metro stations?
• Russian architect Lev Kekushev built Art Nouveau buildings in Moscow, Russia, in the 1890s and early 1900s, "signed" with a lion (Lev) ornament or sculpture?
• American Jesuit priest Walter Ciszek was imprisioned by the Soviet Union between 1941 and 1963, and sentenced to 15 years hard labor, six of which were spent in Moscow's infamous Lubyanka prison?
• American communist Dennis E. Batt took part in the founding of the Red International of Labour Unions in Moscow in 1921?
• Archangel Gospel, the fourth oldest Eastern Slavic manuscript, was brought by a peasant from Arkhangelsk to Moscow in 1876?
• Bogdan Saltanov, the court artist of Tsar Alexis I of Russia, was born in Persia and granted Russian nobility eight years after arrival to Moscow?
• Emil Stang was a delegate to the Founding Congress of Comintern in Moscow in 1919?
• Endel Puusepp became a Hero of the Soviet Union after flying a Soviet delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front?
• Fyodor Schechtel, the architect of Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal in Moscow, Russia, was expelled from his classes at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1878 for "bad attendance"?
• Inteco, a Russian company owned by Yelena Baturina, controlled 20% of the construction in Moscow?