doi:10.1080/08893675.2018.1505253Vincent GreenSpringerJournal of Poetry Therapy
When was the first polio vaccine invented? When was the Mayan civilization discovered? When did the Spanish Civil War start? When did the Asian flu end? When were the cholera outbreaks in England? When did the H1N1 pandemic end? When did the Black Plague start in Italy?
When was India's golden age? When was the Great Plague of London? When did the Vikings invade Wessex? When did England gain independence? When was the golden age of Spain? When was the golden age of America? When did the Black Death end in England? When was the Viking Age? When did...
Today is National Doughnut Day in the US . It’s always on the first Friday of June – that’s June 3, this year. It was started in 1938 by the Salvation Army as a day to honor their members who had served donuts to service members during World War I. This makes today a good da...
In the Middle Ages, the bubonic plague ravages Europe in one of the most deadly pandemics in human history. “I was raised with that myth,” saysAdrian Tinniswood, a senior research fellow in history at the University of Buckingham, England, and author ofBy Permission of Heaven: The Story...
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...
Years ago, when I was a kid, a friend’s father told me that his wife got dragged in front of human resources to defend and explain herself. The reason? She told a non-white colleague that she didn’t have a strong work ethic. The recipient of this information, apparently being none...
was "More time with my mom and dad."Evil is always angry and hurtful. It always delights in the misery of others. This is the evil of terrorism. September 11 did not teach us anything new about evil.What did become apparent is the stunning variety and scope of human goodness. Pick ...
He could see it on a calling card. He’d have had it printed up, even —his was just that sort of black sense of humor— if he weren’t convinced it would kill his mother on the spot. Rake he might be, but there was no need to torture the woman who’d borne him. ...
I spent a great chunk of the year wearing nothing but ponytails that pulled on the crown of my hair which is what contributed to my patch. Since then I have am very careful and avoid tight sleek ponytails like the plague. Pulling your hair unevenly in one section, excessive breakage, ro...