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1 day ago · Due to the long time spans, the first plague pandemic (6th century – 8th century) and the second plague pandemic (14th century – early 19th century) are shown by individual outbreaks, such as the Plague of Justinian (first pandemic) and the Black Death (second pandemic).
1 day ago · In this very haunting 2003 masterpiece, the unsolved serial killings that plague a rural South Korean town are not the only mystery that lingers. It’s (again!) a masterclass in visual storytelling, where every sartorial choice serves as a silent witness, communicating secrets about the characters, their social standing, and the unraveling enigma at the heart of the narrative.
3 days ago · Without Isaac Newton this small manor would be just another Lincolnshire farmhouse - but in 1665 the plague sent him back from university to this place where he was born. For 18 months Newton worked in solitude, experimenting obsessively, laying foundations for the science of today.
2 days ago · Letter from the King to the Lord Mayor, expressing His Majesty's anxiety at the sudden increase of the plague, which he believed had arisen from want of care, especially by the streets being pestered with beggars, rogues, wanderers, and dissolute persons, many of of whom probably came from infected places, and with plague sores about them; and ...
4 days ago · The story of a much deadlier catastrophe, an 1855 yellow fever epidemic in Norfolk and Portsmouth, nearly vanished from the annals of Virginia and U.S. history. Until my book, “The Fever,” was released last month, the epidemic that killed more than 3,000 people had not been featured in a single book. “The Fever: The Most Fatal Plague in ...
4 days ago · Plague is an infectious disease caused by Yersinia pestis, a bacterium transmitted from rodents to humans by the bite of infected fleas. Plague has caused some of the most-devastating epidemics in history. It was the disease behind the Black Death of the 14th century, when as much as one-third of Europe’s population died.
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4 days ago · Poems and murals painted on the walls of churches depicted Death, portrayed by skeletons, as drawing all members of society, from the highest secular and religious officials, down to the lowest, such as the peasant, beggar, and child, into a deadly dance to the grave.
