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Today, in the final episode of the Past Pandemics series, we're talking about the Plague of Justinian, the first occurrence ...
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How the Black Death Devastated Europe
The Black Death was one of the deadliest events in human history – and it changed Europe forever. In this video, we explore how the plague spread with terrifying speed, the suffering it left in its ...
Europe’s creepy island with 160k corpses just 10 miles from world's 'most beautiful city' Anyone showing the slightest symptoms of the deadly disease was dragged there kicking and screaming.
Centuries later, the Black Death still haunted Somerset. In 1626, as the plague returned, Canon Timothy Revett scrawled two Latin words in the Cathedral expense ledger: grassante peste – "the plague ...
Bubonic plague Sydney: How a city survived the black death in 1900 IN 1900, a Sydney wharfie who had been removing rats from his toilet died of the bubonic plague. A wave of public panic followed.
Bubonic plague Sydney: How a city survived the black death in 1900 IN 1900, a Sydney wharfie who had been removing rats from his toilet died of the bubonic plague. A wave of public panic followed ...