calamity : Idioms & Phrases
calamity jane
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noun United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)
Martha Jane Burk; Burke; Burk; Martha Jane Burke.
WordNet
the great calamity
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noun a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)
the Great Hunger; the Irish Famine; the Great Starvation.
