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25 relations: Andover workhouse scandal, Bal maiden, Belgium, Chinese yam, Chronology of the Great Famine, Genocides in history, Great Famine (Ireland), Henri Nestlé, Highland Potato Famine, History of agriculture, History of the potato, Hunger, Hunger in the United Kingdom, Jauch family, List of natural disasters in the British Isles, Norwegian Americans, Phytophthora infestans, Potato famine, Revolutions of 1848, Swallow, Lincolnshire, The Chimes, The Propitious Esculent, The Rochdale Pioneers, Timeline of environmental history, Tramp.
Andover workhouse scandal
The Andover workhouse scandal of the mid-1840s exposed serious defects in the administration of the English 'New Poor Law' (the Poor Law Amendment Act) and led to significant changes in its central supervision and increased parliamentary scrutiny.
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Bal maiden
A bal maiden, from the Cornish language bal, a mine, and the English "maiden", a young or unmarried woman, was a female manual labourer working in the mining industries of Cornwall and western Devon, at the south-western extremity of Great Britain.
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Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.
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Chinese yam
Chinese yam (Dioscorea polystachya), also called cinnamon-vine, is a species of flowering plant in the yam family.
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Chronology of the Great Famine
The Chronology of the Great Famine (An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol, litt: The Bad Life) documents a period of Irish history between 1845 and 1852 during which time the population of Ireland was reduced by 20 to 25 percent.
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Genocides in history
Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group.
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Great Famine (Ireland)
The Great Famine (an Gorta Mór) or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1849.
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Henri Nestlé
Henri Nestlé (born Heinrich Nestle; August 10, 1814 – July 7, 1890) was a German-born Swiss confectioner and the founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company, as well as one of the main creators of condensed milk.
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Highland Potato Famine
The Highland Potato Famine (Gaiseadh a' bhuntàta) was a period of 19th century Highland and Scottish history (1846 to roughly 1856) over which the agricultural communities of the Hebrides and the western Gàidhealtachd (Scottish Highlands) saw their potato crop (upon which they had become over-reliant) repeatedly devastated by potato blight.
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History of agriculture
The history of agriculture records the domestication of plants and animals and the development and dissemination of techniques for raising them productively.
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History of the potato
The potato was first domesticated in the region of modern-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia between 8000 and 5000 BC.
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Hunger
In politics, humanitarian aid, and social science, hunger is a condition in which a person, for a sustained period, is unable to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs.
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Hunger in the United Kingdom
Chronic hunger has affected a sizable proportion of the UK's population throughout its history.
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Jauch family
The Jauch family of Germany is a Hanseatic family which can be traced back till the Late Middle Ages.
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List of natural disasters in the British Isles
This is a list of natural disasters in Great Britain and Ireland.
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Norwegian Americans
Norwegian Americans (norskamerikanere) are Americans with ancestral roots from Norway.
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Phytophthora infestans
Phytophthora infestans is an oomycete or water mold, a microorganism which causes the serious potato and tomato disease known as late blight or potato blight.
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Potato famine
Potato famine may refer to.
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Revolutions of 1848
The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations, People's Spring, Springtime of the Peoples, or the Year of Revolution, were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe in 1848.
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Swallow, Lincolnshire
Swallow is a small village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, on the A46 road north-east from Caistor.
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The Chimes
The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol and one year before The Cricket on the Hearth.
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The Propitious Esculent
The Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History is a book by John Reader outlining the role of the potato (the esculent of the title) in world history.
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The Rochdale Pioneers
The Rochdale Pioneers is a British biographical feature film, released in 2012, that tells the story of the foundation of the first successful cooperative retail store by working class members of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, in 1844.
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Timeline of environmental history
The timeline lists events in the external environment that have influenced events in human history.
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Tramp
A tramp is a long-term homeless person who travels from place to place as a vagrant, traditionally walking all year round.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Potato_Failure
