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Your search for: famine OR famines


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Research Topics on: famine or famines

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Books on: famine or famines

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Journal Articles on: famine or famines

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Magazine Articles on: famine or famines

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Newspaper Articles on: famine or famines

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    Remembering Great Famine; President Pushes the World to Condemn Soviet Genocide
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), November 30, 2009
    Subjects: 
    Famines, Genocide, Stalin, Joseph, Yushchenko, Viktor
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Remembering Great Famine; President Pushes the World...perished from the Great Famine of the 1930s, Ukrainian...Viktor Yushchenko marked the famines anniversary with a fresh...the truth about the Great Famine of 1932-33. We returned...
     
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    Famine Is Killing 100 Children a Day
    Newspaper article; Coffs Coast Advocate (Coffs Harbour, Australia), September 7, 2011
    Subjects: 
    Famines--Somalia
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...are dying every day from the famine. At least half of them are children...severe violence, drought and famine, the UN said. Famine has now affected six areas...galvanise responses to other mass famines is largely missing. The UN has...
     
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    The Famine Was Horrifying, but History Is History and Pardons Would Be Pointless
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 20, 2011
    Subjects: 
    Famines
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    The Famine Was Horrifying, but History Is History...were convicted of stealing food during the Famine. In most cases, these people were guilty...of our historical animosity. The Great Famine is the darkest chapter in our history...
     
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    US Lifts Sanctions to Aid Famine Victims
    Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 21, 2011
    Subjects: 
    Disaster relief--Kenya, Disaster relief--Somalia, Famines--Kenya, Famines--Somalia
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    US Lifts Sanctions to Aid Famine Victims. Byline: Richard Porritt THE...affected and yesterday the UN declared a famine in two regions of Somalia. It estimates...Somalia, Uganda and Djibouti affected. Famine has been declared in Somalias Bakool...
     
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    A Day to Remember Those Who Died in the Famine
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 17, 2010
    Subjects: 
    Famines
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Day to Remember Those Who Died in the Famine. THE wind, it seems, is no respecter...memorial to commemorate the victims of the Famine, Archbishop of Tuam Michael Neary appeared...perished or emigrated during the Great Famine. Thousands marked the day around the...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: famine or famines

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    Starvation
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...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...
     
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    Naples, Kingdom Of
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...treasury; agriculture suffered from the accumulation of huge estates by quarreling Italian and Spanish nobles and the church; famines were almost chronic; disease, superstition, and ignorance flourished. A popular revolt against these conditions, led by...
     
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    World War II
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...of warfare together with the attempt of Germany to exterminate entire religious and ethnic groups (particularly the Jews ) famines, and epidemics, had brought death to tens of millions and made as many more homeless. The suffering and degradation of the...
     
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    Tuareg
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...neighboring tribes, leading caravans, and exacting taxes from trans-Sahara travelers) has changed. Since the 1970s droughts and famines have forced many Tuaregs from their desert homes into urban areas; many have become farmers. In the 1990s political tensions...
     
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    Catalonia
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...kings, the shifting of trade routes with the consequent loss of commercial income, pirate attacks, and recurring plagues and famines were all major factors. Agitation for autonomy was always strong. In the Thirty Years War (1618 48), Catalonia rose against...
     

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