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  surviving the bubonic plague of 166S

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• Fall of the Berlin Wall pp. 366-369

  before the Wall came down in 1989

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  Stalin had destroyed in 1930

• Corn blight epidemic strikes the United States pp. 433-435

  corn blight of 1970 could have been witnessed in the case of oats

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