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    Elkhorn Ranch (category 1884 establishments in Dakota Territory)
    and Dow built the ranch house, "a long, low house of logs," in the winter of 1884–1885. The Elkhorn Ranch was Theodore Roosevelt's "main ranch", and his...
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    Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (category 1883 in Canada)
    Greely's camp on June 22, only seven men had survived the winter. The rest had succumbed to starvation, hypothermia, and drowning, and one man, Private Henry...
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    Record rainfall was experienced in Southern California during July 1883 to June 1884. The Krakatoa eruption injected an unusually large amount of sulfur...
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    that purpose. The life on the overpopulated reservation was troubled by starvation, disease (like smallpox and malaria) and inter-tribal dispute, made worse...
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    Arnold Toynbee (/ˈtɔɪnbi/; 23 August 1852 – 9 March 1883) was an English economic historian also noted for his social commitment and desire to improve...
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  • Thomas Bowen (Wisconsin politician) (category 1883 deaths)
    Wisconsin Territory, during the difficult Winter of 1842–1843. Corn was scarce and cattle were dying of starvation. Smith, who had a supply of corn from his...
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    hunted to near-extinction by commercial hunters. By 18831884, more than 300 Assiniboine died of starvation while forcibly incarcerated at the Wolf Point sub-agency...
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    Edgar Dewdney, September 5, 1884. Held at Glenbow Museum. Daschuk, James. Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal...
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    in "the strenuous life" outdoors and the loss of his cattle in the starvation winter in 1886–1887 were influential in his pursuit of conservation policies...
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    of the White Nile fell through the winter, muddy 'beaches' at the foot of the walls were exposed. With starvation and cholera rampant in the city and...
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    Prince and the Pauper (1881), Life on the Mississippi (1883), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)...
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    hunters with his claim, often repeated, that Allakariallak had died of starvation less than two years after the film was completed, whereas in fact he died...
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    the ships Thetis and Alert arrived on June 22, 1884, 18 of Greely's 25 men had perished from starvation, drowning, hypothermia, and, in one case, a gunshot...
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    required each of them to bring a year's supply of food, in order to prevent starvation. In all, the Klondikers' equipment weighed close to a ton, which most...
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    Pipe [Aman-Jean] [1883]; The Painter Aman-Jean as Pierrot [1883]), Léon Comerre (Pierrot [1884], Pierrot Playing the Mandolin [1884]), Henri Rousseau...
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    1849 and killed many of the Irish Famine survivors, already weakened by starvation and fever. In 1849, cholera claimed 5,308 lives in the major port city...
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    and accelerated the Native American population's decline from disease, starvation, and the California genocide. The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial...
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    generated among the locals, the trekkers ended up in a state of near starvation in the Kaokoveld, decimated by the harsh climate.) Related to the rise...
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    made hunting impossible, famine became a reality. The hard experience of starvation found its way into stories and myths. A folk tale of the Kiowa begins...
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  • to include starvation, malnutrition and illness, many Metis were caught sharing what little food they had. The head of the DIA between 1883 and 1893, Hayter...
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    known documents in which Stalin or his government explicitly called for starvation to be used against the population. The 1931 and 1932 harvests had been...
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    Relatives sought annuity payments, people lost resources to sickness and starvation, and raids from hostile tribes were frequent. In 1865 a new treaty allowed...
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    R v Dudley and Stephens (category 1884 in case law)
    R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273, DC is a leading English criminal case which established a precedent throughout the common law world that necessity...
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    Montana. The winter of 18831884 became known as "Starvation Winter" because no government supplies came in, and the buffalo were gone. That winter, 600 Niitsitapi...
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  • estimate was that 60,000 former slaves died from [war-related diseases and starvation], but doctors treating black patients often claimed that they were unable...
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    (1882–1975) Gen-ichi Koidzumi (1883–1953) Makoto Nishimura (1883–1956) Shintarō Hirase (1884–1939) Tamezo Mori (1884–1962) Kanesuke Hara (1885–1962)...
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    States citizenship and was naturalized on 16 March 1883. With two young children, he had by 1884 settled down and was teaching school at the St. Peter's...
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    Sierra Nevada mountains during the winter of 1846–1847. Half of the 90 people traveling with the group died from starvation and exposure, and some resorted...
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    coastal areas. In 1883, the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad connected Pensacola and the rest of the Panhandle to the rest of the state. In 1884 the South Florida...
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  • Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (d. 1965) 1883 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980) 1884 – Gordon Thomson, English rower and lieutenant...
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