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Lost documents shed light on Black Death
The Times ^
| June 1, 2007
| Simon de Bruxelles
Posted on 06/01/2007 6:38:06 AM PDT by Daffynition
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To: blam
Ward Churchill has this all figured out. The cause was "smallpox blankets" distributed by the U.S. Army.
(Don't bother telling him there was no U.S. Army in the 16th Century - you'd expect a fake Indian to produce fake scholarship.)
To: norton
I recently learned this reading a book recommended here on FR and immediately wondered if 'buboe' was the source for 'boo-boo'. Wouldn't surprise me since 'Ring around the Rosy' morphed from a song about death by the same means. Fascinating idea, I bet you're onto something there!
To: rainbow sprinkles
The noble and unfairly maligned rattus rattus gets a reprieve after 7 centuries.
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posted on
06/01/2007 10:12:56 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(theTerryAndersonShow.com)
To: Pelham
Sorry I wandered on to this thread so late in the discourse, but there was a warm period in Europe from about (if memory serves me) 1100 to 1300. We’re talking major warm winters and stifling summers. You could even call it G——l W-——g. No, seriously, fleas could have survived those winters.
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posted on
06/02/2007 12:33:41 AM PDT
by
Nucluside
(Cultural Relativism is a lie; Western culture IS superior)
To: To Hell With Poverty; norton
Ring around the Rosy' morphed from a song about deathNot so.
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posted on
06/02/2007 1:35:39 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace Begins in the Womb)
To: rainbow sprinkles
Was it not during this period that global warming was in effect? So the winter would not have been cold enough to defer the fleas and rats, but of course global warming is just now happening for the first time in history so that is not possible is it?
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posted on
06/02/2007 5:57:37 AM PDT
by
YOUGOTIT
(The Greatest Threat to our Security is the US Senate)
To: blam
To: Jeff Chandler
Not so. No? It's a common take on the song & I didn't know there was any other. Do tell.
To: rainbow sprinkles
Are they saying that fleas living on warm bodies in the winter in England do not breed because it is too cold?
Is this another case of junk science?
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posted on
06/02/2007 6:54:54 AM PDT
by
Dustbunny
(The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
To: GoLightly
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posted on
06/02/2007 7:32:24 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Treaty)
To: blam
America hasn’t always been as attractive a place as it is right now. Ice sheets, asteroids, hurricanes, megavolcanos, plagues of all kinds, drought, earthquakes, etc. It’s probably going to come around again at some point.
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posted on
06/02/2007 7:48:15 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Treaty)
To: Jeff Chandler
Please edify..
If I'm wrong & so much of what's written is wrong, I'd like to know what's corrrect.
(hope it's a good story)
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posted on
06/02/2007 9:18:23 AM PDT
by
norton
To: norton
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posted on
06/02/2007 12:30:36 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace Begins in the Womb)
To: GoLightly
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posted on
06/02/2007 12:32:17 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace Begins in the Womb)
To: rainbow sprinkles
Experts now believe that the Black Death is more likely to have been a viral infection, similar to haemorrhagic fever or ebola, that spread from person to person. What experts? I never heard that. Where are they? What do they say? What have they published?
To: Nucluside
Ha. Just what I suspected- yet another rat-basher.
There is no end to the oppression.
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posted on
06/02/2007 11:33:36 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(theTerryAndersonShow.com)
To: Pelham
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posted on
06/04/2007 10:05:01 AM PDT
by
Nucluside
(Cultural Relativism is a lie; Western culture IS superior)
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posted on
03/01/2011 5:17:57 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: Daffynition
I can’t get the link to work. :(
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posted on
03/01/2011 5:21:39 PM PST
by
kalee
(The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
To: kalee
No wonder the link doesn’t work the article is OLD. lol
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posted on
03/01/2011 5:46:30 PM PST
by
kalee
(The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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