Environment and Climate

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The Starving Time refers to the winter of 1609–1610 when about three-quarters of the English colonists in Virginia died of starvation or starvation-related diseases. In his unpublished account A Trewe Relacyon, George Percy, who served as president during these grim months, wrote that Englishmen felt "the sharpe pricke of hunger which noe man trewly descrybe butt he which hathe tasted the bitternesse thereof." Already for two years, the Jamestown coloni. . .

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Diet–Kepone

Diet in Early Virginia Indian Society
Early Archaic Period
Hurricane Camille (August 1969)
Kepone (Chlordecone)

Little–Rye

Little Ice Age and Colonial Virginia, The
Modern Environmental History of Virginia
Paleoindian Period (16,000–8000 BC)
Rye Cove Cyclone

Shenandoah–Weather

Shenandoah National Park
Starving Time, The
Weather during the Civil War

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Environment and Climate

Diet–Kepone

Little–Rye

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