DAY THE BLACK DEATH HIT BACK; When the Bubonic Plague Returned to Glasgow, the World Held Its Breath. but a Brilliant Scots Doctor Stopped the Deadly Epidemic in Its Tracks
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When the population of cities hit several hundred thousand to a million, diseases could spread rapidly and create genuine epidemics. The fact that the Black Plague killed perhaps half the European population was an indication, ironically, of progress, because populations had reached critical mass for...
London, England In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one’s been hit in the chest, all the breath knocked out, and one knows, absolutelyknowswithout the merest hint of a shadow of a doubt that one’s life will neve...
The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” "What did you just say ?" "Puff mich ?"...
How did the Americans get their calculations so wrong? What was the Castle Bravo Test? The problem with unleashing any newmilitarytechnology on the world is that it starts a deadly game of one-upmanship. The US may have been the first nuclear power, but it wasn’t the last. Rather than...
This year I resolved to do the usual things: lose weight; step up the exercise; no more eating potato chips (I even did the farewell ritual recommended by certain therapists: “I love you very much, fried salty things, but I can’t have you in my life anymore”). I did, however,...
I did move to my April/May Airbnb as planned, but Panama was, like, literally closed and I couldn’t go on. So I had to cancel the June-August reservation, and then as things continued the August-November reservation as well. (Panama was struggling. It’s not a huge amount better...
that we could make an earlier bus than the one we had planned, if we put a bit of a shift on. The descent was steep, over peat hags and tussocky grass, giving me jelly legs by the time we reached the track but we didn’t have to run to the stop as we did on ourprevious tri...