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
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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
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