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yurbud

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7. In those earlier famines, they alleviated them by curbing exports

Reply to hedgehog (Reply #5)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 03:00 PM

Aug 2014

which did not happen in the "Great" Famine.

They were still producing some food, but the landlords were shipping it back to Merry Old England and elsewhere.

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