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Stress, Strain, & Strength

What do all of these pictures have in common? Array of pictures, clockwise from top left: the leaning tower of Pisa, the armless statue of the Venus de Milo, a soda can about to be popped open, a snapped pencil, a dog chewing a bone, the cracked Liberty Bell, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge as its deck collapses, the shattered face and eroded body of the Sphinx.
The same array of images, with no text in front.
The same array of images, with the answer to what they have in common: Each is an example of how stuff breaks!