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This New Rice Could Help Fix the Global Food Shortage

Unlike famines that receive emergency-aid, chronic hunger is a silent, invisible, day-after-day condition. Thankfully, Chinese scientists have come up with a super-tough strain of rice that could significantly help.

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Was This the WORST Year in Human History?

It was a combination of many events - from a catastrophic volcanic eruption to climate change, death, and famine. The Medieval historian Michael McCormick stated that “it was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year.”

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1816 Saw a Weather Event That History Will Never Forget

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Two Centuries Ago, We Experienced a Year Without a Summer

The bizarre weather event was caused by a volcanic eruption which led to a sudden drop in temperatures in central and Western Europe and North America, followed by crop failure, the death of livestock, and famine.

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The Grotesque History of Human Cannibalism

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Did Any Human Culture Ever Seriously Practice Cannibalism?

From fabrications about ritual man-eating to horrible acts of necessity during famine and siege, human history is rife with rumors and stories about humans eating other humans, but how can we set apart fact from fiction?

Spirituality

Be Aware of & Apply These Things For a Happy Life

This Is All You Need to Do to Make Life As Good As Can Be

Be aware of “time famine” The demands placed upon us all by the modern world have left many of us feeling that there are never enough hours in the day to get things done, and this can cause a lot of psychological stress. In fact, researchers are now calling this phenomenon “time famine”.

Design & Photography

Around the World in 44 Frames!

Some have famine and heat, while others too much rain and swamp. But you'll be hard pressed to find a country without some beauty in it, something interesting and different. Each country, every region, have something special to them alone.

Art

20 Modern Sculptures You Will Simply Adore

20 Modern Sculptures That Prove Art Is Alive and Well!

Famine, Dublin, Ireland (by Rowan Gillespie) Anonymous Panda So much of Ireland's modern history was shaped by the terrible famine that reduced the population by 25% during the 19th Century. This sculpture is one of many to put a human face to the tale. 19.

Riddles & Quizzes

QUIZ: How Much Do You Know About Ireland?

QUIZ: Answer This Leprechaun and Win a Pot of Gold!

Mount Galtymore Mount Carrauntoohil Mount Brandon Mount Olympos The Great Irish Famine, which lead to mass migration and starvation, was in which decade? This terrible famine, which happened in the 1840s, saw a 2 million population decrease in Ireland due to emigration and death by starvation.

Art

20 Modern Sculptures That Prove High Art Is Alive and Well

Famine, Dublin, Ireland (by Rowan Gillespie) Anonymous Panda So much of Ireland's modern history was shaped by the terrible famine that reduced the population by 25% during the 19th Century. This sculpture is one of many to put a human face to the tale. 19.

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7 Fairy Tales That Are Popular to This Very Day!

During a time of famine, Hansel and Gretel are abandoned in a great forest by their wicked stepmother. Unable to resist eating pieces of a gingerbread cottage, the hungry children are captured by the cannibal witch who lives there. In the end, they have to shove her into the oven to escape.

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This Drought-Proof Grain is Exactly What the World Needs!

Given the current climate, fonio could be the difference between feast and famine in this region.

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Historic Photos From Days of Christmas' Past...

The Germans had stopped providing the locals with food and fuel, causing a famine (1944) [related_articles] American soldiers decorate a Christmas Tree during the Vietnam War (1967) English schoolboys going home for Christmas (1926) A French soldier dressed as Santa delivering his comrades parcels from

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Let's Hear Robin William's World Plan

(About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.) 8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need.

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10 Pre-European Native American Achievements

These Native American Achievements Are Truly Outstanding!

While Europe was being constantly afflicted by regular plagues and famines, the Native Americans were in top form. [related_articles] 3. They had impressive city-building skills.

Nature

Few Flowers are as Colorful as the Tulip...

Not all tulips are fragrant, but all of them can be eaten, and indeed during WWII and the 1944 Dutch famine, people survived by eating tulips and sugar beets. Again, this is not Holland, but actually Sakura City in Japan. The 'serpent garden' in Japan.

Health

These 25 Health Tips Are All You Need to Live Well

Your body thinks you’re going through a famine, which causes it to work in energy-saving mode and makes burning calories more difficult. 10. Listening to music regularly is said to reduce the chances of developing a brain tumor. 11.

Nature

6 Stinging Plants You Wouldn't Want to Run Into, Literally

This Plant's Sting Lasts YEARS After the Initial Impact

A certain type of ranunculus called a bulbous buttercup ( Ranunculus bulbosus ) is considered “a potential famine food“ that can be eaten boiled.

Art

10 of the Most Influential Songs of All Time

These Songs Influenced Entire Generations...

Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas (1984) Click to watch Former Boomtown Rats frontman, Bob Geldof, organized this Christmas single back in 1984 in order to raise funds for the famine that was devastating Ethiopia at the time.

Spirituality

5 Famous Figures Who Created Masterpieces in Quarantine

5 Famous Figures Who Made The Most of Quarantine

The crisis, which had a dire effect on crops around the world, unleashed famine and a global cholera pandemic. When Mary Shelley arrived at Lake Geneva for a vacation in 1816 the weather was so ghastly after the eruption, she was trapped inside for nearly the entire time.

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The 10 Greatest Cities in the History of the World

These Great Cities Were Once the World's Largest

Records of the city were destroyed by the Romans following the end of the Third Punic War, so we'll never know whether they were sacrificial victims, or whether they died of famine or drought. At its height, Carthage was home to half a million people. 9.

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8 Common Foods That Used To Be Universally Hated

No One Expected These Foods To Become So Popular

Many researchers believe that the potato’s arrival in northern Europe spelled an end to famine there. Potatoes were treated with suspicion at first. Eating only the roots of a plant was unheard of in Europe.

Games

The 4 Greatest Board Games You've Never Heard Of!

With certain commodity tokens, disaster tokens quickly follow, like volcanoes, civil wars and famines, which will wipe out resources and populations that need to be rebuilt, unless, of course, you have the resources to mitigate the damage!

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Listen to the World's Most Famous Speeches

Listen to 7 of History's Most Famous Speeches

There is a record already written of assistance gladly given by nations of the West to needy peoples and to those suffering the temporary effects of famine, drought and natural disaster. These are deeds of peace. They speak more loudly than promises or protestations of peaceful intent.

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