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Plague has died but infection lingers - Mattarella
(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 28 - Italian President Sergio Mattarella ... but it is all around us, in the air - the plague has died away, but the infection still lingers". The commemoration at Auschwitz ...
Smithsonian Magazine13d
On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
Opinion
Commentary: Plagues destroy humanity, vaccines save it
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” The words are Ecclesiastes 1:9 – among my ...
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Imagination and affect in the face of the (in)visible threat
During the outbreak of plague in Rome in 1656, the physician Gregorio Rossi warned: “Procul omnis tristitia, venus, signities. Mens sit hilaris, contemplationibis non laxetur” (“Avoid sadness and ...