The 10 Worst Years in Human History

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https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/09/22/great-famine-soggiest-years-centuries/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00016-3?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_campaign=3_nsn6445_deeplink_PID100083652&utm_content=deeplink
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https://www.medievalists.net/2018/10/the-great-famine-1315-1322-revisited/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/blast-from-the-past-65102374/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2016/05/26/year-without-a-summer-1816-mount-tambora/84855694/
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/amete/2016/3217038/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/01/how-the-little-ice-age-changed-history
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/4402948173
https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/michael-mccormick
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https://www.history.com/news/536-volcanic-eruption-fog-eclipse-worst-year
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/06/08/covid-19-to-plunge-global-economy-into-worst-recession-since-world-war-ii
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/european-colonisation-of-the-americas-caused-global-cooling/
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https://www.history.com/news/black-death-timeline
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