In just the last decade, he believes, he has seen the end of that era, as soaring real estate prices have largely emptied the area of its artists, bohemians, radicals and immigrants.

These pictures, largely emptied of living vegetation and human presence, are like scenes from the inferno.

Kinama was largely emptied of its residents during the offensive, the biggest since 1993, the first year of Burundi's civil war.

Unfortunately, these beautiful grottoes have been largely emptied by rival religious groups and by archaeological adventurers from the West.

A century later, the Windemere had been mostly converted to single-occupancy rooms, then largely emptied by violent harassment that led to prison sentences for two agents of the prior owner.

The local office of the Drug Enforcement Administration would be largely emptied but he didn't care; he had never intended to go there anyway.

Although frequent payments were made from the account, investigators told the Kyodo news service, a balance of about $90,000 was kept until it was largely emptied shortly before he left Japan for the last time.

"We have a government now," grinned Fuad Haithem Jassim, a 35-year-old police officer standing near a lively soccer game on a street in central Baghdad, largely emptied by a curfew.

After the Ottoman Turkish administration of Hungary, the then-village was largely emptied, but the Barren of Herend was repopulated between 1764 and 1847.

Gibraltar itself had been largely emptied of its population, most of whom left the town after its capture and resettled elsewhere in the Campo de Gibraltar.