"The Irish famine was caused by a failure of the potato crop and subsequent lack of food.
In fact, the potato crop failed throughout Europe but only in Ireland was there a famine. The famine was caused by a perfect storm of inhuman English laws and practices designed to market-capitalize every square inch of the country, forcing Irish people to adopt a subsistence diet. Also, we were shipping literally tons of food out of the country while the famine was going on."
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Molly 11 month s ago
#8 created by laws to maximize markets...so communism.
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Philomena 11 month s ago
Molly,
Turbo capitalism. Pure and deadly.
Irelands population is still lower than before the famine
Turbo capitalism. Pure and deadly.
Irelands population is still lower than before the famine
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Eunice 11 month s ago
#3 - wrong. This actually dates back to a law long before her time *that benefited the poor*. In French, it actually makes sense. There were 2 kinds of bread - cheap "pain" and expensive "brioche." The law required bakers to sell the brioche for the same price as the pain if they ran out of pain before a certain hour of the day.
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Philomena 11 month s ago
#15 it was always a common way to denounce strong females by making up stories about their sexual escapades. The same happened to cleopatra.
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Erna 11 month s ago
#12
Tell this Mohammeds youngest wife Aisha!
Tell this Mohammeds youngest wife Aisha!
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Muriel 11 month s ago
#15 It was a horse.
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Leve 11 month s ago
#1 No. Sorry. Pasta is now known to have been in what is now Italy 900 years before Marco Polo was born. I was probably introduced by Arabs.
Turbo capitalism. Pure and deadly.
Irelands population is still lower than before the famine
Tell this Mohammeds youngest wife Aisha!