The Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic, is estimated to have resulted in the death of nearly 50% of Europe’s 14th century population, making it one of the deadliest disease outbreaks in human ...

Likely originating in Germany around the 18th century, the classic children's rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" first appeared in English in 1881 when Kate Greenaway included it in her book "Mother Goose ...

After the initial outbreak of the Black Death in the 14th century, the bubonic plague continued to ravage through Europe. For example, in 1665, London was struck once again by an epidemic of the ...

See the historic city center (a UNESCO World Heritage site), with its 12th-century Romanesque cathedral ... city from many disasters throughout the centuries—including the bubonic plague in 1643—the ...

In 1896, the British government in India established a Special Plague Committee, chaired by Walter Charles Rand, an Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer. He was tasked to deal with the bubonic ...

They included viruses such as anthrax and bubonic plague, according to the Washington Post. The extraordinary details have come to light because thousands of State Department documents dealing ...

Human plague cases drop in U.S. After a spike of human cases of the plague in 2015, a year the disease inflicted 16 people across portions of the western United States, the number of occurrences ...

The highlight, a Nepalese gilt bronze figure of Vashudhara dating from the 12th-14th century, sold for £65,000. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to SussexWorld, you get 70% fewer ads while ...

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