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Even as the Nasdaq and much of the rest of the market has been decimated over the past couple of weeks, I haven't written anything about it, because I didn't think there was anything interesting to add.
The congenital colorblindness of Pingelap is a direct result of the place's isolation and its vulnerability to natural cataclysm--it was a storm that decimated the island's population and enforced inbreeding, causing a recessive gene to flourish.
The war and the disastrous effects of the plague decimated the population of Poland, reducing it to just four million, roughly half its total in the early 17th century.
During their Directoire, a new wave of executions — the White (royalist) Terror — decimated the Jacobins and their supporters.
Plantation work was labor intensive, but there were very few laborers on the island; the Spanish slaves had disappeared into the inhospitable interior and the native Arawak had been decimated by disease.