I came across an interesting post on an interesting web page today. Wait but why answers questions the authors find interesting using entertaining and informative infographics.
A recent article, The Death Toll Comparison Breakdown addressed "the actual numbers of people that died in key moments throughout history." The author used circles of varying sizes to illustrate the relative death toll of events in recent and not so recent history.
It's interesting, well written and provided a few surprises. For instance, I had no idea that the 2010 earthquake in Haiti resulted in 316K deaths. Or that Pol Pot's Communist genocide in Cambodia killed as many people in only four years as were killed in 200 years of war between Christendom and Islam during the Crusades.
A recent article, The Death Toll Comparison Breakdown addressed "the actual numbers of people that died in key moments throughout history." The author used circles of varying sizes to illustrate the relative death toll of events in recent and not so recent history.
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It's interesting, well written and provided a few surprises. For instance, I had no idea that the 2010 earthquake in Haiti resulted in 316K deaths. Or that Pol Pot's Communist genocide in Cambodia killed as many people in only four years as were killed in 200 years of war between Christendom and Islam during the Crusades.
There is one death toll missing, and I wondered where it would stack up along side these other well-known deadly events.
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