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Squalidae, more commonly known as dogfish, dog sharks, or spiny dogfish, are one of several families of sharks categorized under Squaliformes, making it...

hunger, a monotonous and unbalanced diet at the best of times, cramped and squalid housing, perhaps one change of meagre clothes, insufficient bedding to...

January 1844, there were said to be 675 Aboriginal people resident in squalid camps in Melbourne. The British Colonial Office appointed five Aboriginal...

people lived in multistory apartment buildings (insulae) that were often squalid firetraps. Public facilities—such as baths (thermae), toilets with running...

streets bullied and called Gandhi a "parasite", "semi-barbarous", "canker", "squalid coolie", "yellow man", and other epithets. People would even spit on him...

consideration. An example of this could be a person living in poor conditions or squalid housing in a high crime area of a developed country and struggling to pay...

1850 he had five mills. However, because of the polluted environment and squalid conditions for his workers Salt left Bradford and transferred his business...

camps were miserable places where food rations were meager and conditions squalid. One American admitted "The only difference between the stalags and concentration...

and contained a large network of dungeons where prisoners were held in squalid conditions contaminated with human waste. Forced labor on public works...

all hope of escape had vanished; persistent rain reduced the camp to a "squalid hell" of mud and starving cattle, supplies were dangerously low and many...

the end of the century. Urbanisation aided the spread of diseases and squalid living conditions in many places exacerbated the problem. The population...

region, particularly in Manchester and Salford. Vast areas of low-quality squalid terraced housing that were built throughout the Victorian era were found...

households. Large numbers of unemployed or very poor Irish Catholics lived in squalid conditions in the new city slums and tenements. Single, Irish immigrant...

such as Camp Gurs or Camp Vernet, where 12,000 Republicans were housed in squalid conditions (mostly soldiers from the Durruti Division). The 17,000 refugees...

start. Its founders hoped that in contrast to what they perceived as the squalid and unsanitary conditions of neighbouring Arab towns, Tel Aviv was to be...

running west and east. The northern extension, Marchix, was considered squalid and nearly disappeared during the 20th century. The old town did not extend...

Early in his childhood, O'Neal and his sister lived with their mother in squalid conditions. Their mother struggled with drug and alcohol addiction while...

Retrieved June 2, 2010. Leonard P. (June 19, 2010). "Ethnic Uzbeks in squalid camps fear returning home". Yahoo! News. Retrieved June 19, 2010.[dead...

such as Camp Gurs or Camp Vernet, where 12,000 Republicans were housed in squalid conditions. In his capacity as consul in Paris, Chilean poet and politician...

executed 23 Portuguese and threw the rest into prison where they resided in squalid, sometimes fatal conditions. The Chinese then massacred Portuguese who...