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A portable flamethrower being prepared to destroy locusts in Palestine, 1915. Midhat Bey, who was the official appointed to fight the infestation, helped enact a law which required every male between ages 15 and 60 in cities to collect 20 kilograms of locust eggs or pay a fine of £4.40.
Linda Schilcher Schatkowski, «The famine of 1915-1918 in greater Syria», in J. Spagnolo (dir.), Problems of the modern Middle East in historical perspective, Essays in honor of Albert Hourani, Ithaca Press, Reading, 1992, 229–258. Pitts, Graham Auman. “Make Them Hated in All of the Arab Countries: France, Famine, and the Creation of ...
Desert locust: Locust Plague of 1874: 1874 United States: Rocky Mountain locust: Albert's swarm: 1875 United States: 3.5 – 12.5 trillion Rocky Mountain locust: 1915 Ottoman Syria locust infestation: 1915 Israel, Lebanon, and Syria: 2003–2005 Africa locust infestation: 2003–05 West Africa 2013 Madagascar locust infestation: 2013 Madagascar ...
1915 Ottoman Syria locust plague; G. 1837 Galilee earthquake This page was last edited on 4 September 2018, at 11:20 (UTC). ...
Aaron Aaronsohn (Hebrew: אהרון אהרנסון) (21 May 1876 – 15 May 1919) was a Romanian-born Ottoman agronomist, botanist, and political activist, who lived most of his life in Ottoman Syria. Aaronsohn was the discoverer of emmer (Triticum dicoccoides), believed to be "the mother of wheat."
Argentina is facing a plague of locusts. Officials say it's the worst invasion the country has seen in 50 years. %shareLinks-quote="The locusts are covering more than 700,000 hectareas or about 1. ...
1915 Ottoman Syria locust plague; 2013 Madagascar locust plague; 2019–2022 locust infestation; A. Albert's swarm; January 2016 Argentine locust swarm;
A surprise offensive by rebel forces opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime has led to a new round of fighting in the Middle Eastern country's long-running – but until recently ...