1.   An expedition was sent to Greenland but found only ruined houses and Eskimos.

2.   An old man, grizzled and dazed, sits in a ruined house reading a newspaper from three months ago.

3.   A palm tree that had stood in front of the ruined house was tilted at an angle.

4.   Across the street, she went into the garden of another ruined house.

5.   Guchigova said survivors told her that soldiers had ordered people into their yards and then rampaged through the ruined houses, looking for things to take.

6.   Instead, the women were blindfolded and taken to a ruined house across the street.

7.   Not all ruined house plants are the result of a testosterone-laden canine.

8.   Out front a construction fence surrounds the yard to keep the ruined house safe from vandals or thieves.

9.   Shrapnel has shattered so many roofs that wildflowers often grow indoors, pushing through the floors of ruined houses.

10.   Soldiers patrolled the streets, still littered with broken glass, charred remains of cars and ruined houses.