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  2. Droughts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The 1890s drought, between 1890 and 1896, was the first to be widely and adequately recorded by rain gauges, with much of the American West having been settled. Railroads promised land to people willing to settle it, and the period between 1877 and 1890 was wetter than usual, leading to unrealistic expectations of land productivity.

  3. Federation Drought - Wikipedia

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    Except for a widespread El Nino drought in 1888, the late 1880s and early 1890s were a period of extremely heavy rainfall [1] over New South Wales, Queensland and to a lesser extent Victoria and the settled areas of Tasmania and South Australia. Lake Eyre is believed to have filled with water from Cooper Creek in 1886/1887, 1889/1890 and 1894 ...

  4. Indian famine of 1896–1897 - Wikipedia

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    When the crops failed, people were driven to change their diets and eat seeds and fodder. [11] Consequently, many farm animals, especially bullocks, slowly starved. [10] The famine of 1896–97 proved particularly devastating for bullocks; in some areas of the Bombay Presidency, their numbers had not recovered some 30 years later. [10]

  5. 'Ghost bridge' submerged for more than a century in North ...

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    The road was replaced by those around the reservoir in the early 1890s, the Jersey City News reported in 1890. ... The region has been dealing with severe drought, going more than a month with no ...

  6. List of famines - Wikipedia

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    Lombok, drought and malnutrition, exacerbated by restrictions on regional rice trade: Indonesia: 50,000 [157] 1966–1967 Rice crisis [158] Burma: 1967–1970: Famine caused by Nigerian Civil War and blockade: Biafra: 2,000,000: 1968–1972: Sahel drought created a famine that killed a million people [159] Mauritania, Mali, Chad, Niger and ...

  7. 50 Fascinating ‘Old-Time Photos’ That Show You Just How Much ...

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    Some people might include passwords to their digital world in their will but not all." ... #47 This Giant Sequoia Tree Was Estimated To Be Over 2600 Years Old When It Was Cut Down In The 1890s.

  8. Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879 - Wikipedia

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    The Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879 (Chinese: 丁戊奇荒) was marked by drought-induced crop failures and subsequent widespread starvation.Between 9.5 and 13 million people in China died [1] mostly in Shanxi province (5.5 million dead), but also in Zhili (now Hebei, 2.5 million dead), Henan (1 million) and Shandong (0.5 million). [2]

  9. Scientists use beavers to fight climate change - AOL

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    As nearly 40% of the country is currently in drought, scientists are looking to the largest rodent in North America for help: the beaver.Researchers in California and Utah found that dams made by ...