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  2. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. List of wars by death toll - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of famines - Wikipedia

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    Famine caused by failure of rainy seasons and drought. [106] 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. [107] [108] Conditions worsen with cholera outbreaks (1889–92), a typhus epidemic, and a major ...

  6. Eschatology - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. US warns a famine in Sudan is on pace to be the deadliest in ...

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    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 ...

  8. Horsemen of Apocalypse - Wikipedia

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    In the first universe, Deadpool found a new group of Horsemen. An eight-armed Spider-Man was Pestilence, Blob was Famine, and Archangel was Death. The three fought Deadpool, Siryn and Cannonball. When Deadpool figured out there was still one more Horseman left, a superpowered Cable (as War, the fourth Horseman) appeared and defeated all of them.

  9. Societal collapse - Wikipedia

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    The invasions transformed a settled society to a nomadic one. [44] In China, for example, a combination of war, famine, and pestilence during the Mongol conquests halved the population, a decline of around 55 million people. [31] The Mongols also displaced large numbers of people and created power vacuums.