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To: count-your-change
Cooler weather favored the spread of the bubonic plague and it struck Constantinople in 540 C.E. killing 300,000 people.

AD 542, actually.
25 posted on 01/09/2009 7:41:29 AM PST by Antoninus (America didn't turn away from conservatism, they turned away from many who faked it. - Mark Sanford)
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To: Antoninus

You’re quite right! My brain is far away from my fingers at times. Thanks.


30 posted on 01/09/2009 8:45:12 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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