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• Famine — This article is about scarcity of food. For other uses, see Famine (disambiguation). Child victim of the Holodomor. A famine is a widespread scarcity of food. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation …   Wikipedia

• Famine in India — Owing to its almost entire dependence upon the monsoon rains, India is more liable than any other country in the world to crop failures, which upon occasion deepen into famine. [ [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Famine Famine] , Encyclopaedia… …   Wikipedia

• Famine au Tibet (1960-1962) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Famine au Tibet. Les subdivisions administratives autonomes tibétaines de la République populaire de Chine, représentées en jaune Le Grand Bond en avant …   Wikipédia en Français

• famine — /fam in/, n. 1. extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area. 2. any extreme and general scarcity. 3. extreme hunger; starvation. [1325 75; ME < MF, deriv. of faim hunger ( < L fames); see INE2] Syn. 2.… …   Universalium

• Great Famine (Ireland) — The Great Famine ( ga. An Gorta Mór [The term has appeared in the titles of numerous books on the event, as demonstrated by [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=%22Gorta+Mo%CC%81r%22 =Search qt=results page this search on WorldCat] ] or ga. An… …   Wikipedia

• Irish Famine (1879) — The Irish famine of 1879 was the last main Irish famine. Unlike the earlier Great Famines of 1740 1741 and 1845 1849 the 1879 famine (sometimes called the mini famine or An Gorta Beag) had relatively minimal effect, causing hunger rather than… …   Wikipedia

• Indian famine of 1896–1897 — The Indian famine of 1896–1897 was a famine that began in Bundelkhand, India, early in 1896 and spread to many parts of the country, including the United Provinces, the Central Provinces and Berar, Bihar, parts of the Bombay and Madras… …   Wikipedia

• 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia — The 1984 1985 famine in Ethiopia were two famines that occurred simultaneously in Ethiopia, of which the northern is the most prominent. In the north, the insurgency of the Tigrayan People s Liberation Front and the government s counterinsurgency …   Wikipedia

• Great Famine of 1315–1317 — From the Apocalypse in a Biblia Pauperum illuminated at Erfurt around the time of the Great Famine. Death (Mors ) sits astride a lion whose long tail ends in a ball of flame (Hell). Famine ( Fames ) points to her hungry mouth. The Great Famine of …   Wikipedia

• Agra famine of 1837–38 — The Agra famine of 1837–38 [ The famine is often referred to as the Agra famine because, just before it began, the North Western Provinces, then the Ceded and Conquered Provinces, were to have become the Presidency of Agra ; later, in 1904, the… …   Wikipedia

• Dutch famine of 1944 — See also: History of the Netherlands (1939–1945) The Dutch famine of 1944, known as the Hongerwinter ( Hunger winter ) in Dutch, was a famine that took place in the German occupied part of the Netherlands, especially in the densely populated… …   Wikipedia