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Being a serious ruminator, I have thought a bit about this and have some suggestions as to why we are currently experiencing the Great Coin Famine of 2009. 1.
Where Have All the Nice Coins Gone? : Coin Collecting News 2009
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This guy's e-mail exchange with IHR flunky Ted O'Keefe, where he asks why the neo-Nazis won't print his article denying the Irish Potato Famine, is hilarious and enlightening.
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Hence the studied avoidance of the word Famine in almost every official document of the time.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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Famine is raging in several countries and is threatening in others.
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Famine is staring in the face the Austrian and Hungarian people, and in the east of Germany that monster is fastening his fangs on the people.
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This was in that part of the strait called Famine Reach.
Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877
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Famine is often the effect of war, and pestilence of famine.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Famine is one of the ordinary effects of war, and those commonly feel it first and most that sit still and are quiet; the prophet and his pious friends, when the Chaldean army comes, will be plundered and stripped of all they have.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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For me, yes there is diferences in the definition and concept of the word Famine can be used.
unknown title 2009
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Famine is almost always followed by epidemical diseases, the effect of scanty and unwholesome food.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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