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    A famine is a widespread scarcity of food caused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread...
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    The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of...
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  • The Famine was an American death metal band formed in Arlington, Texas in 2006. They were signed to Solid State Records. The band initially formed with...
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    The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine,[better source needed] was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions...
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    The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War...
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    The Great Famine of 1315–1317 (occasionally dated 1315–1322) was the first of a series of large-scale crises that struck parts of Europe early in the...
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  • may refer to: Great Bengal famine of 1770 Bengal famine of 1873–1874 Bengal famine of 1943 Bangladesh famine of 1974 Famine in India This disambiguation...
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  • Great Famine may refer to: Great Chinese Famine (1958–1961) Great Famine (Greece) (1941–1944) Great Bengal famine of 1770 Great Rajputana Famine (1869)...
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  • Potato famine may refer to: European Potato Famine, the wider agrarian crisis in Europe contemporaneous to the Irish and Highland potato famines in the mid-1840s...
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    Indian famines, including the Bengal famine of 1770, the Chalisa famine, the Doji bara famine, the Great Famine of 1876–1878, and the Bengal famine of 1943...
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  • The Great Chinese Famine (Chinese: 三年大饥荒; lit. 'three years of great famine') was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People's Republic...
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    The Soviet famine of 1930–1933 was a famine in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine and different parts of Russia, including...
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    Bengal famine Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union Famine in India Famines in the Czech lands Famines in Ethiopia Great Bengal famine of 1770...
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  • The population of the Gaza Strip is at high risk of famine as a result of Israeli airstrikes during the Israel–Hamas war and an Israeli blockade, including...
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    The Russian famine of 1921–1922, also known as the Povolzhye famine (Russian: Голод в Поволжье, 'Volga region famine') was a severe famine in the Russian...
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  • Famine in Sudan may refer to: 1993 Sudan famine, during civil war and political unrest 1998 Sudan famine, caused mainly by human rights abuses and drought...
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  • Russian famine may refer to: Russian famine of 1601–03 Russian famine of 1891–92 Russian famine of 1921–22 Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet...
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    A famine food or poverty food is any inexpensive or readily available food used to nourish people in times of hunger and starvation, whether caused by...
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    The Bangladesh famine of 1974 (Bengali: ১৯৭৪-এর দুর্ভিক্ষ, romanized: 1974-Ēr Durbhikkho) began in March 1974 and ended in about December of the same year...
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  • Irish Famine (1740–41), known in Irish as Bliain an Áir, "Year of Slaughter" Irish Famine (1861) Irish Famine (1879), sometimes called the "mini-famine" or...
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  • Famine in Somalia may refer to: 1992 famine in Somalia, which killed 200,000–300,000 people in Somalia 2011 East Africa drought, which killed 260,000...
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  • feast or famine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Feast or Famine is an irreversible binomial that may refer to: Feast or Famine (Reef the Lost Cauze...
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  • Famines in Ethiopia have occurred periodically throughout the history of the country. The economy was based on subsistence agriculture, with an aristocracy...
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    The Famine Stela is an inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs located on Sehel Island in the Nile near Aswan in Egypt, which tells of a seven-year...
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  • The Irish famine of 1879 was the last main Irish famine. Unlike the earlier Great Famines of 1740–1741 and 1845–1852, the 1879 famine (sometimes called...
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  • Famine relief is an organized effort to reduce starvation in a region in which there is famine. A famine is a phenomenon in which a large proportion of...
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    The Dutch famine of 1944–1945, also known as the Hunger Winter (from Dutch Hongerwinter), was a famine that took place in the German-occupied Netherlands...
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  • The "Famine Song" is a song sung by some Ulster loyalists in Ulster and Scotland and is normally directed at Catholics and, in Scotland, Irish people...
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  • The Indian Famine Codes, developed by the colonial British in the 1880s, were one of the earliest famine scales. The Famine Codes established three levels...
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    A widespread famine affected Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985. The worst famine to hit the country in a century, it affected 7.75 million people (out of Ethiopia's...
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