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Still, the earliest certain potato crop in North America was brought to New Hampshire in 1719 from Derry. [41] The plants were from Ireland, so the crop became known as the "Irish potato". Thomas Jefferson said of the potato, "you say the potato is a native of the US. I presume you speak of the Irish potato.
In 1845, potatoes accounted for a little under a third of tilled acreage in Ireland, with it being the food source that three million people were exclusively dependent on. In the 1830s and the beginning of the 1840s, a large part of livestock numbers were exported and also up to one quarter of grain that was produced.
1857: Modern isoseismal map invented by Robert Mallet. [29] 1859: Proof of the greenhouse effect discovered by John Tyndall. [30] 1864: Capnography invented by John Tyndall. [31] 1865: The first Transatlantic telegraph cable pioneered by William Thomson on Valentia Island. [32] 1866: Standard drop method of hanging discovered by Samuel Haughton ...
The first known outbreak of the potato blight, Phytophthora infestans, occurred in the eastern United States in 1843. [4] As the blight spread to the north, it also crossed the ocean, reaching the potato fields of Ireland in September 1845, [5] three months before completing its journey along the American coast and arriving on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland.
A graph of the populations of Ireland and Europe indexed against 1750 showing the disastrous consequence of the 1845–1849 potato famine. Ireland commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Great Famine in the 1990s. It was a contrast, in many ways, with the 100th anniversary in the 1940s.
Florida State football fans are descending on Ireland. The Seminoles purchased 11,000 tickets for No. 10 FSU's season opener Saturday against Georgia Tech in the Aer Lingus College Football ...
An 1849 depiction of Bridget O'Donnell and her two children during the famine. The chronology of the Great Famine (Irish: An Gorta Mór [1] or An Drochshaol, lit. ' The Bad Life ') documents a period of Irish history between 29 November 1845 and 1852 [2] during which time the population of Ireland was reduced by 20 to 25 percent. [3]
Our country's pumpkin-carving history began with a spooky tale. The post The History of Jack-o-Lanterns and How They Became a Halloween Tradition appeared first on Reader's Digest.