Whether this is true or not, it shows how long a shadow the Black Death casts over popular history, and how the events of 1348–9 still resonated in the twentieth century. The Black Death was far from ...

The Black Death or the bubonic plague was the most fatal pandemic ever recorded in human history, causing an estimated 75-200 million deaths in Eurasia and North Africa. Caused by the bacterium ...

Rats have long been associated with and blamed for the spread of plague, a disease that has killed over 200 million people throughout the past two millennia. The Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic ...

The carved-wood statues reference a long-standing urban legend in and around Bransholme. For years, residents have reported seeing apparitions here. "People think they've seen a ghost," says Neil ...

But nothing done today can match the response of a small English village, several hundred years ago, when people responded to the spread of the plague in their midst. We visited this little village ...

In Douglas County, there are 248 cases still pending the assignment of a public defender. Drew Winkelmaier is the managing editor for The News-Review. He can be reached at [email protected] ...

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Dandeli has a century-old railway station, but no passenger trains arrive there. There is a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus stand, but rarely does any bus arrive from ...

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Here are a few theories about why people may have decided to bury their dead 6 feet deep. In 1665, London officials issued a pamphlet they hoped would help stop an outbreak of the plague or Black ...