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51Federation Drought — In Australia, the Federation Drought is the name given to a prolonged period of drought that occurred around the time of Federation in 1901.Though often thought of as a long drought, until the record dry year of 1902 the period was actually one… …
52social security — 1. (usually caps.) a program of old age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups. 2. the theory or practice of… …
53Irish Potato Famine — (1845–49) Famine that occurred in Ireland when the potato crop failed in successive years. By the early 1840s almost half the Irish population, particularly the rural poor, was depending almost entirely on the potato for nourishment. A reliance… …
54Famines, Epidemics, and Public Health in the British Raj — Orissa famine of 1866= The Orissa famine of 1865 7 affected the east coast of India from Madras upwards, an area covering 180,000 square miles and containing a population of 47,500,000. The impact of the famine, however, was greatest in Orissa,… …
55Western Africa — ▪ region, Africa Introduction region lying south of the Sahara and east and north of the Atlantic Ocean. It is latitudinally divided into two parallel belts of land: the western portion of the Sudan, a geographic area that stretches across… …
56Crossbill — Red (Common) Crossbill Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia …
57Hydropolitics in the Nile Basin — Essay like|article|date=December 2007The Nile River is subject to political interactions. It is the world s longest river flowing 6,700 kilometers through ten countries in northeastern Africa – Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo… …
58Famine scales — are the ways in which degrees of food security are measured, from situations in which an entire population has adequate food to full scale famine. The word famine has highly emotive and political connotations and there has been extensive… …
59Bengal famine of 1943 — The Bengal famine of 1943 is one amongst the several famines that occurred in British administered Bengal. It is estimated that around 4 million people [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s19040.htm] died from starvation and… …
60Bangladesh — /bahng gleuh desh , bang /, n. republic in S Asia, N of the Bay of Bengal: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations; a former province of Pakistan. 125,340,261; 54,501 sq. mi. (141,158 sq. km). Cap.: Dhaka. Formerly, East Pakistan. * * *… …
