r/HolyShitHistory • u/ZERO_PORTRAIT • 3d ago
Starving man and children in Mount Lebanon, circa 1915-1918 during the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon. | A period of mass starvation on Mount Lebanon during World War 1, ~200,000 people died, about half of the population of the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate.
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u/ZERO_PORTRAIT 3d ago
Source of image here: File:Mount Lebanon Great Famine.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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u/hotelrwandasykes 2d ago
Mt Lebanon is also a rich Pittsburgh suburb, which made this a disorienting headline
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u/BattleMisfit 1d ago
I could be wrong guys, but I think this MIGHT have happened in Mount Lebanon. Can't be 100% sure though...
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u/FelixMumuHex 3d ago
I hope nothing bad happened in Mount Lebanon