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Victims of the Great Plague 'discovered' at Liverpool Street station
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| August 12, 2015
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Posted on 08/13/2015 8:49:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/13/2015 8:49:48 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
I had no idea that London was 55 million years old.
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posted on
08/13/2015 8:53:58 PM PDT
by
matthew fuller
(When do the minarets and outhouse moon go up on the White Mosque?)
To: SunkenCiv
Well, lets hope whatever they died of isn’t being spread now that they’ve been dug up.
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posted on
08/13/2015 8:54:10 PM PDT
by
bgill
( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: SunkenCiv
Not London?
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posted on
08/13/2015 8:54:20 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
Any chance it was this guy?
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posted on
08/13/2015 8:55:29 PM PDT
by
rikkir
(You can lead a horde to knowledge but you can't make them think. (TnkU ctdonath2))
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/13/2015 8:56:58 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: SunkenCiv
Wow! They are hard on turnstyle jumpers there.
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posted on
08/13/2015 9:02:24 PM PDT
by
rey
To: bgill
Well, lets hope whatever they died of isnt being spread now that theyve been dug up.
I thought of that, too.
There were some nasty maladies in those days.
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posted on
08/13/2015 9:08:31 PM PDT
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: SunkenCiv
Not surprising. Lots of history in London.
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posted on
08/13/2015 9:59:10 PM PDT
by
umgud
To: laplata
There were some nasty maladies in those days.We're descended from the survivors....
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posted on
08/13/2015 10:57:31 PM PDT
by
no-s
(when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote>)
To: rikkir
I feel happy! I feel happy!
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posted on
08/13/2015 11:09:34 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: matthew fuller
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posted on
08/13/2015 11:12:22 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: rey; umgud
Looks like someone went medieval on ‘em.
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posted on
08/13/2015 11:29:15 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: bgill; laplata; no-s
If it were typhus, it would be worth worrying about. That can persist in the soil for thousands of years, supposedly.
Yersinia pestis
http://www.cdc.gov/plague/
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posted on
08/13/2015 11:35:52 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
> A headstone found nearby was marked 1665.
The Great Fire of London was in 1666.
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posted on
08/13/2015 11:36:35 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: bgill
i seem to recall they were digging up people buried in permafrost who died from the plague for that reason, to get an active copy of the disease to provide a cure on the off chance it reappears...
also they have found people who were immune to it and , so the story goes, their offspring today are actually immune to aids also. saw an interview with a guy who lived through the aids rise in San Fran. everyone he knew died of aids...everyone. turned out his ancestors were from a village in England somewhere that the plague just didnt infect/effect.
kind of amazing when you think of it.
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posted on
08/14/2015 2:00:36 AM PDT
by
Irishguy
To: BenLurkin
Oh, FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH!
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posted on
08/14/2015 6:41:55 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Let Baal plead for Baal because one has destroyed his altar!)
To: SunkenCiv
Beldam! Maybe they were walled up alive!
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posted on
08/14/2015 6:46:22 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Let Baal plead for Baal because one has destroyed his altar!)
To: Irishguy
***I seem to recall they were digging up people buried in permafrost***
I remember that! it was Eskimos who had died of the flu back in 1918. They were successful in finding live flu virus from back then.
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posted on
08/14/2015 6:49:32 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Let Baal plead for Baal because one has destroyed his altar!)
To: umgud
You ain't kidding. On a trip to London a few years ago, I went beachcombing along the Thames below Millennium Bridge. Among the items I collected were medieval and even Roman era potsherds and 17th century clay pipe stems.
If you view the site on google earth you'll see quite a lot of exposed river bank between the present day embankment and a much earlier bulkhead.
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posted on
08/14/2015 9:54:22 AM PDT
by
Oratam
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