who wanted the crown to acknowledge the crisis posed by British settlement of tribal lands in what is now Connecticut. Weyonomon contracted smallpox and died before he could present his petition to a royally appointed commission; as a
Who brought the Black Death to Europe?European Mortality and the Black DeathIt had previously been calculated that some 20% of medieval Europeans lost their lives to the Black Death, based on assumptions about records. More recently, however, these calculations have been revised, and the total ...
Jansen worked on anthrax and smallpox vaccines at a now-defunct company called VaxGen, before joining Wyeth, which later became Pfizer after the firms merged. There, she improved the company’s pneumococcal vaccine, nearly doubling the number of bacterial strains covered, from 7 to 13 — and ...
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Bill Dougall embodied what made Lakeside special—he was a World War II Navy pilot and Boeing engineer who brought real-world experience to teaching. Beyond his degrees in engineering and education, he had even studied French literature at the Sorbonne. He was the kind of Renaissance man who ...
Note: this post is just a partial list of Black Women who were lynched in America. More research has revealed there are 148 documented cases of African American women lynched in America. Four of them were known to have been pregnant. Two of them had th
Catherine decided to have herself inoculated against smallpox by a Scottish doctor, Thomas Dimsdale. While this was considered a controversial method at the time, she succeeded. Her son Pavel was later inoculated as well. Catherine then sought to have inoculations throughout her empire stating: "...
I knew it would come, eventually, when I heard about the “flu-like disease” epidemic in China. People compare this to the Spanish Flu, which travelled around the world in two years. We all knew it would come to us somehow. It was all a matter of time. Like smallpox Or polio. Th...
One of her favorite things to taunt the soldiers with was the supposed infidelity of their wives and girlfriends. In addition, Gillars liked explaining, in grim detail, the injuries and deaths of various servicemen to their families. In 1946, she was brought back to America, where she stood...