2Causes and Avoidance A commonly held belief was that God had sent the plague as punishment. In Italy, where the Black Death first struck during the Renaissance, officials found a more practical explanation. They blamed the arrival of foreign ships carrying not only cargo, but pestilence. Conseq...
As Alex says, "Math is the history of math." As he says, kids who are still studying math by the age of 18 have gotten all the way to the 1700's! These are not new facts for me. But somehow when he put together the fact that "math does not age" with the observation that in...
Forest vegetation plays a key role in the cycling of mercury (Hg) and organic matter (OM) in terrestrial ecosystems. Litterfall has been indicated as the major transport vector of atmospheric Hg to forest soils, which is eventually transported and stored
Death Toll: 5,000,000 - 17,000,000 in the Slave Trade; Millions Dead from Colonialism Strange Fruit By Billie Holiday Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black body swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit