10 invaluable things that have been destroyed because of human stupidity

Do you have an awkward acquaintances, in whose hands literally all falls down, breaks and crumbles? But to break it or mess up with white cloth — not so bad as to destroy the 200-year-old chair, on which sat a Napoleon, or, for example, the ancient Mayan temple.

However, such situations happen, too! Read more about the precious things that are gone due to human stupidity and carelessness, read our material.

1. In the XVIII century was Shakespeare, settled Reverend Francis Gastrell. Crowds of pilgrims every day, going under the house to honor the memory of the great English playwright. But the main attraction in this place was a mulberry tree that he had planted in the garden.

Uninvited guests so tired Gastrell that he cut down the ill-fated tree. But residents protested this act, and banished the monk, demanding that he continued to pay property taxes. Reverend, this situation is, of course, was not satisfied, so completely angry, he decided to take revenge on the neighbors and razed the former home of Shakespeare to the ground.

2. Unique monument called Brinkema formation of stones (Brimham Rocks) in North Yorkshire nature has created more than 320 million years. And still the same age he could stand, pleasing to him arriving tourists, if not for a group of local teenagers. They thought it would be funny to push the rock off the cliff, with the result that it crashed and broke into pieces.

Arrived at the scene, professionals, hoping to restore the historic landmark, but the damage was too great. In the end, cliff and left to stand empty, and fragments of stone lay there at its foot.

3. In 2012, in a small wine-growing village of Evrak near Bordeaux accidentally destroyed elegant Bellevue castle of the eighteenth century, which shortly before it was bought by Russian businessman Dmitry Strokin. The owner ordered the Polish construction companies the reconstruction of the château, in particular, the demolition of one of the small outbuildings, which had no aesthetic value and spoil the external appearance of the castle.

4. In 2014 in a French Museum has an unpleasant misunderstanding that almost jeopardized the integrity of the 200-year-old relics. Tired of the guard decided to rest and sat down on the first chair — he was Hiking the chair of Napoleon, which cracked under the pressure and cracked. Fortunately, the chair was repaired, but we represent a range of emotions experienced poor guard when told the authorities about what happened!

5. In 2013, a construction company in Belize limestone needed to repair the road. And she could think of nothing better than to get at it, destroying an ancient Mayan temple. This may have been done accidentally, however, the fact remains that the building stood in its place more than 2000 years, now destroyed. But the most shocking thing about this story is that the fine, which had to pay to the company amounted to 24 thousand dollars.

6. Winston Churchill hated official portrait, painted for his 80th birthday, so he put it in the wine cellar and no one showed. After the death of the Prime Minister, his widow told his Secretary to hang the canvas in the house, and then carried him to the backyard and burned.

7. Famous photographer Robert Capa, along with the American soldiers literally was in the middle of it, when on 6 June 1944, began landing allied troops in Normandy. Legendary photographer managed to make more than 100 images of the battle, the negatives of which he was sent to Life magazine. This was to be a sensation!However, 15-year-old lab assistant left them after developing in a drying Cabinet with closed doors. Because of this emulsion was melted, and 95 photos of completely corrupted, 11 lost its sharpness, but even in this form, gained worldwide fame.

8. In 2012 Rotterdam art gallery was kidnapped seven of the paintings of great artists — Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Henri Matisse. The kidnappers paintings have been unable to find buyers, so the leader of the gang gave them to his mother, and she buried in a cemetery near his home. When the crime was known to the police and all members of the group were arrested, the woman brought the painting home and burned them in the furnace.

9. In 2013, the Museum of the city of Calcutta in India, carried out repairs, during which the contractors accidentally touched the statue of a lion, dated to 250 BC. At this stage, the sculpture could still be saved if the employees of the Museum, setting it in place, used modern equipment. Instead, they raised a breakaway part with the help of chains and blocks, which on the surface of the statue still have a lot of rough cracks.

10. Acacia the "Tree of Ténéré" at the time, was considered the most lonely tree on earth, so she grew up deep in the desert — in a radius of 400 km is not met any more plants. The tree even put on military maps in scale 1:4 000 000 as one of the insignia, and the local people were strictly forbidden to harm the tree. However, they thought this was not, after all, for decades the tree was a stop for caravans traveling on the trade routes of the Sahara.

However, to conserve the unique plant and failed — in 1973, the locust was hit by a truck, at which wheel there was a drunk driver-Libyan. It's funny that before, another man had also managed to bump into a lonely tree in the desert, but it was the second attack proved fatal for him.