The Black Death, a deadly bubonic plague pandemic in the 14th century, caused widespread havoc, claiming around 200 million ...

The ancient world suffered immensely from plagues, like the 430 BC Athenian plague, which had lasting consequences for all of ...

Hundreds—sometimes thousands—would suddenly start dancing in the streets, unable to stop, as if possessed. From exhaustion to ...

He observes that curiously enough, in the years that the bamboo flowered in Hong Kong - 1894, 1896 and 1898 - plague epidemics ravaged the colony. So could there be some truth in this old saying? The ...

The idiom “dance till you drop” stands true both figuratively and literally when the French city of Strasbourg witnessed the Dancing Plague. The year was 1518, and just like a plague, this was ominous ...

the doc will explore how the Black Death – an outbreak of bubonic plague – swept from Central Asia throughout Europe in the 14th Century, decimating the continent’s population, with ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Several Section III high school athletes have acquired cool nicknames that reflect the flash and style with which they play their sport or perhaps something unique about their ...

By April 1638 officially around 1,550 people, a fifth of the city’s population, had been consumed by the pestilence and buried in plague pits. In fact more died in an outbreak of bubonic plague ...

You'll struggle to find a Brit that hasn't heard of the Black Death (1300s) or the Great Plague of London (1600s). But less well-known is the bizarre outbreak of "sweating sickness" in the late ...

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