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  2. The Land of Feast or Famine - Wikipedia

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    The Land of Feast or Famine was the title of several books about Canada's north: The Land of Feast or Famine, the name of a 36-page manuscript John Hornby left when he starved to death in 1927; The Land of Feast or Famine, Helge Ingstad published a book by this title in 1931

  3. Helge Ingstad - Wikipedia

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    After returning to Norway, he wrote the bestselling Pelsjegerliv ("Trapper Life") about his time in Canada, published in English as The Land of Feast and Famine (Knopf, 1933). [7] Ingstad was the governor of Erik the Red's Land in 1932–1933, when Norway annexed that eastern part of Greenland.

  4. Souperism - Wikipedia

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    Famine memorial in Ballingeary, County Cork Ballingeary famine soup-pot Ballingeary famine plaque. Souperism was a phenomenon of the Irish Great Famine.Protestant Bible societies set up schools in which starving children were fed, on the condition of receiving Protestant religious instruction at the same time.

  5. Theories of famines - Wikipedia

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    Citizens in Bengal road making as part of a famine relief project. It has been suggested by Amartya Sen in his book Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation that the causal mechanism for precipitating starvation includes many variables other than just the decline of food availability such as the inability of an agricultural laborer to exchange his primary entitlement, i.e ...

  6. Thrifty gene hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Neel proposed that a genetic predisposition to develop diabetes was adaptive to the feast and famine cycles of paleolithic human existence, allowing humans to fatten rapidly and profoundly during times of feast in order that they might better survive during times of famine. This would have been advantageous then but not in the current environment.

  7. List of famines - Wikipedia

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    Famine caused by drought during the third year in the Yuanding period. Starvation in over 40 commanderies east of the Hangu mountain pass. [2] China: 103 BC – 89 BC: Beminitiya Seya during the reign of the Five Dravidians [3] Anuradhapura Kingdom: 26 BC: Famine recorded throughout Near East and Levant, as recorded by Josephus: Judea: 20,000 ...

  8. Feast or Famine - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide ... Feast or Famine is an irreversible binomial that may refer to:

  9. Great Chinese Famine - Wikipedia

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    Great Chinese Famine 三年大饥荒; Country: China: Location: Half of the country. Death rate were highest in Anhui (18% dead), Chongqing (15%), Sichuan (13%), Guizhou (11%) and Hunan (8%). [1] Period: 1959–1961: Total deaths: 15–55 million: Theory: Result of the Great Leap Forward, people's commune, Four Pests campaign and other factors ...