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Counted in Millions MillionIn * In Disasters Throughr Through ThroughPaxes Historye r , Pages of HistoryNEW History HistoryNEW e : - I r1 r1NEW NEW YORK YORKVim YORK11n ' \ -Vim Vim \11n 11n Man - has battledfamine battledI battled I l famine { min * almost sine since incc ( the betinnln begulHlng beginning betinnlnof begulHlngr1 < r1 of time Scarcely a century cf'ntury cfntury ' haspared has hasI I passed without wlde widest l read readatarva re Id Idstarva > d starva atarva atarvation starvatlon starvation tlon tion and death In 1n some part of theglobe the theflobe theflobeIt ) globe globeIt It was around ] 1708 708 B D C when whenone whenone one of the flrit nrst tlrst recorded faminestook famines faminestook took Ita Its toU toll In Egypt E < ypt the Assoclat Associat Associated Associated ed Prcis Press relatesThat relate relates relatesI * ) I That waa was wa the famous Seven Year YearI Yearfan-iln Yearfan iln I famine - * described in Genesis and andpredicted andpredicted andpredicted ] predicted by Joseph who Interpreted interpretad Interpret ed ad Pharaoh II a dream about the sev seven sevan even en an good lood kine trine and the seven ven ill illfavored illfavored 111favored favored kine ' ' And just as JUlieph Joseph JUliephhad Josephhad Ju ephhad had foreseen the seven years of ofdearth ofdearth ofdearth dearth began to come and the thefamine thefamine the'amine theamine famine ' was all aU over the face ofthe of oflhe ofthe lhe the earthAlthough earth earthAlthough Although Joseph Jo eph staved off oft ttle tte ttleworst tteworst theworst ] worst of ot the famine by storing grain grainduring grainduring grainduring during the seven yean years of plentylucceeding plentysucceeding plenty plentyucceeding ucceeding lucceeding succeeding generation generations * haven i t Deenso peenso oeen Deen peen oeeno so o lucky Jucky or torealghted foresighted One his historlan historlan hitorlan * torlan counted 450 famines between 1000 and 1855 1 ] 855 55 Another found four fourmajor fourmajor fourmajor major food foodshortages ahortagei shortages In 1n the ninthcentury ninth ninthcentury ninthcentury century two In the eleventh andBve and andfive andlive five live in the twelfth twelfthDeaths twelfthDeaths twelfthDeaths Deaths have been counted In themillions the themillions themillions millions especially especlallv in India whereentire where whereentire whereentire entire provincea provinces were depopulatedand depopulated and lurvlvors survivors driven to canmbal cannibal cannibalism canmbalIsm Ism 1301 some BOO 900 years ago and as recently reccntly re recently cently as 1001 1901 when whl'n whln ' 1000 1000000 1 000 000 Indlans Indl Indi Indlans Indians ans starved starvt'd starvtd ' to ( o death dea tll desf desJ deslite ite lie theexpenditure th thexpenditure the theexpenditure expenditure of s 8 me s : . 10000000 10 000 000 onrelit on onrelu onrelief relu relief reliefFamines f I fFamine IFamine's Famine Famine's Famines ' * In AsiaIndia As1a Asia AsiaIndia India China and Hi Rt Ressta ssia sSla all havesuffered have havesuffered uffered suffered un isually high dpath death t 1 11sfrom lis lls lisfrom llsfrom from famines rec Irf wri irr ! ) n g frequently frequentlybecause frequentlybecause frequentlybecause because of primitive agriculture agriculturebad agriculturebad a < riculture3 bad d transp ) irtation rta1l0n rtatlon and drouth One Onethird Onethird Onethird third of Bengal B'ngal Bngal { ' s populat on for example example ex | ample starved to death in 1770 because be because be'cause because ' cause the m msoon rnsoon ceased too earlythe earlythe early earlyIndia the year belore before beloreThe beforeThe The gr'at grat great { ' Durga Devi hmlne famine In InIndia inIndia India lasted 12 yclrs yens years Four hundred hun hundred hundred dred years later the Dojl DOJI B Bim Bdlli Baia im orSkull or orSkull orSkull Skull famine killed killl"d killld " so 80 many soquickly 80 so 80quickly 10quickly quickly there wasn wasp t time to bury burythem burythem burythem them properly A million Ine 1m Inc 1mdns Incdns dns dnsdied dnsdied insdied I 1866I died In two province provinces alone In 1866 1808 1866and 1808and 11C8and and 5 000 000 in three areas 11 years yearsiater yearslater yearslater iater later Between 1860and 1MO 1860 and r00 1800 1890 an anestimated anestimated anestimated estimated 15000 15 000 000 died of hungerChina hungerChina hunger hungerChina China lost Jost 9500000 9 500 000 between 1877 1 1777t 777t 781n 78 In 1n j ist 1St one of Its many aminI's aminIs famines faminesRussia { faminesRussia aminI'sRussia ' Russia ' experienced I'xperienced Ixperienced 11 between 1846 1845 1846and 1845and 1145and and 1922-the 1922 the 1822 - the laxt last of which came cameafter cameafter cameafter after the civil war One expert attributes at attrlbut attribute trlbut tributes ' ! 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