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This suggests that the black horse's famine is to drive up the price of grain but leave oil and wine supplies unaffected (though out of reach of the ordinary worker). One explanation is that grain crops would have been more naturally susceptible to famine years or locust plagues than olive trees and grapevines, which root more deeply. [5] [34]
In Quake 4 the convoys which carries the EMPs to the tetranode are called "War", "Famine", "Pestilence" and "Death". In the Red Dead Redemption downloadable add-on, Undead Nightmare, four of the mountable mythical beings are horses labeled as Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death. They are associated with their own Rank, gaining a rank for every ...
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
The year 2001 was a particularly dark one mainly because of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, which tragically claimed nearly 3,000 lives and reshaped global politics and security.
Famine caused by failure of rainy seasons and drought. [101] East Africa,Tanzania and Kenya: 1888–1889: Famine in Orrisa, Ganjam and Northern Bihar: India: 150,000: 1888–1892: Ethiopian Great famine. About one-third of the population died. [102] [103] Conditions worsen with cholera outbreaks (1889–92), a typhus epidemic, and a major ...
There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.
Moderately damaging earthquakes strike between New York and Wilmington, Delaware, about twice a century, the USGS said, and smaller earthquakes are felt in the region roughly every two to three years.
The newly confirmed famine at one of the sprawling camps for war-displaced people in Sudan’s Darfur region is growing uncontrolled as the country's combatants block aid, and it threatens to grow ...