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I would highly recommend Charles Panati's Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody, (along with just about any of his other books,) for a lot of fun facts and information that will give you much better perspective on how lucky we have it today. He has written a lot of books and articles on the origins of many things, and put together this collection of the rather ghastly demise of many people, beliefs, medical practices, and cultures. It is not for squeamish-especially the section on- well never mind- you'll know it when you see it.

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Malaria and the Fall of Rome
By Andrew Thompson