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Nineteenth century
The first sign of potato blight is:
brown spots on the potato plant leaves
a very bad smell
no leaves
When it was time to harvest the potatoes:
there were brown spots on the potato plant leaves
there was a very bad smell
there were no leaves
How many people died during the famine?
Roughly 10,000 (ten thousand) people
Roughly 100,000 (one hundred thousand) people
Roughly 1,000,000 (one million) people