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Agabus
Agabus , in the New Testament, prophet who foretold the famine in the time of Claudius Caesar and the imprisonment of Paul.... Read more |
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Famine of
FAMINE OF 1932–1933 The famine began in the winter of 1931 and 1932, peaked between the fall of 1932 and the summer of 1933, and subsided with the 1933 harvest. Mortality was highest in rural areas of Ukraine, the North Caucasus, and the central and southern Volga Basin, but increased in... Read more |
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Famine
FamineBIBLIOGRAPHY“Famine is like insanity, hard to define but glaring enough when recognized. … one country will define as food shortage what another country would call famine” (Taylor 1947, pp. 98, 102). In recent years, and particularly in the United States, where food surpluses have been... Read more |
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Irish Famine
Famine, Irish (1845–51). The famine originated with the recurrent failure of the potato crop, devastating the Irish cottier and small farmer classes: around 1 million died in Ireland as a result either of starvation or—more commonly—disease. The origin of this demographic... Read more |
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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , allegorical figures in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. The rider on the white horse has many interpretations—one is that he represents Christ; the rider on the red horse is war; on the black horse is famine; and on the pale horse, death.... Read more |
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Subsistence farming
Subsistence Agriculture LAND LABOR HARVEST SHARING CULTIVATION PRACTICES TRADE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BIBLIOGRAPHY The peasant concept of the good life is the minimum expenditure of physical labor. When applied to food production, peasants expend only enough labor to grow enough food to... Read more |
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Economic Crises
ECONOMIC CRISES ECONOMIC CRISES. Historians have identified many types of economic crises in the early modern or preindustrial period: financial, general long-term crises, regional, the permanent crises of lower-class poverty, and short-term crises of famine or of famine combined with temporary... Read more |
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starvation
starvation condition in which deprivation of food has forced the body to feed on itself. Causes are famine, fasting, malnutrition, or abnormalities of the mucosal lining of the digestive system. Famines are often compounded by political strifes that restrict the distribution of aid and imports, as... Read more |
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pigs
pigs have been kept as livestock in Ireland since the neolithic period. Archaeological evidence and early medieval texts both suggest that they were a relatively cheap source of meat, as they could be fed largely on household refuse and natural food supplies such as autumn leaf mast. After the 16th... Read more |
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Mara
Mara ♀ Of biblical origin, from Hebrew Mara ‘bitter’, a name referred to by Naomi when she went back to Bethlehem because of the famine in the land of Moab and the deaths of her husband and two sons: ‘Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very... Read more |
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