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XEE4136097: Anecdotal history of food: the Spartan barrow. Denys the Elder (431-367 BC), tyrant of Syracuse detested the barrow when he tasted it. The cook replied that he must not be hungry enough to appreciate it. Chocolate-Louit chromolithography, late 19th century. Private collection., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
ELD4862774: King Henry IV of France (1553-1610) secretly passing bags of flour to supply the hungry Parisian population at the siege of Paris in 1590 (King Henry IV of France (1553-1610) secretly provides starving people of Paris in flour during the siege of Paris in 1590) Illustration by Edouard Zier in “” Nos-Gloriers-Nationales”” 1920 Collection private, Zier, Edouard Francois (1856-1924) / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4862695: Jul 07, 1953 - Emergency Food Supply for Needy East Berlin Population Already in the early morning hours of Monday, July 27th, 1953, over 20,000 hungry and needy from East Berlin lined up before the individual town-halls of the City of Berlin where food is distributed to them. many stood hours and hours to receive a package with fat or some cans. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4862633: Jul 07, 1953 - Emergency Food Supply for Needy East Berlin Population. already in the early morning hours of Monday, July 27th, 1953, over 20,000 hungry and needy from East Berlin lined up before the individual town-halls of the City of Berlin where food is distributed to them. Many stood hours and hours to receive a package with fat or some cans. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4862842: Jul 07, 1953 - Emergency Food Supply for needy East Berlin population. Already in the early morning hours of Monday, July 27th, 1953, over 20.000 hungry and needy from East Berlin lined up before the individual town-halls of the city of Berlin where food is distributed ti them. Many stood hour and hours to receive a package with fat or some cans. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4862708: Jul 07, 1953 - Emergency Food Supply for needy East Berlin population.: Already in the early morning hours of Monday, July 27th, 1953, over 20.000 hungry and needy from East Berlin lined up before the individual town-halls of the city of Berlin where food is distributed to them. Many stood hours and hours to receive a package with fat or some cans. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4862770: Jul 07, 1953 - Emergency Food Supply for needy East Berlin population.: Already in the early morning hours of Monday, July 27th, 1953, over 20.000 hungry and needy from East Berlin lined up before the individual town halls of the city of Berlin where food is distributed to them. Many stood hours and hours to receive a package with fat or some cans. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4862729: Jul 07, 1953 - Emergency Food Supply for needy East Berlin population.: Already in the early morning ho0urs of Monday, July 27th, 1953 over 20.000 hungry and needy from East Berlin lined up before the individual town-halls of the city of Berlin where food is distributed to them. Many stood hours and hours to receive a package with fat or some cans. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4861450: Jul 07, 1953 - Hungry CROWDS WARNED TO REFUSE FREE FOOD FROM WEST... COMMUNISTS SAY IT IS AN” INSULT”. Food, the first of 1,000,000 parcels of it, weighing 5,000 tons, offered free to the thousands of the hungry East Germans today. But the East Germans have been warned - don't touch it, or else”.. The food comes from the Allied and West German officials... The ban on acceptance comes from the Communists... The call the offer” an insult”.. It is an attempt to recruit” agents” for the west - they say... Yesterday the East Berlin city Government (executive council told the family hit city The communists have made sure that the ban is carried out - for they have built wire fences at strategic points - and have made workers promise to refuse food and have threatened police action against those who defy the ban / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4867285: Aug. 08, 1953 - Confiscated US food help rations in the Easterrn sector distributed: The American food help rations, which had been distributed to the hungry eastern population, were in many cases confiscated by Eastern” Volspolizei”. These rations were distributed in Eastern Berlin to Western unemployed, today. In the foreground of the one of the picture you can see two Eastern” Volkspolizisten” watching the distribution. The other picture shows crowds in Eastern Berlin, at the Gendarman Market. / Bridgeman Images