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	Black Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The plague struck the Chinese province of Hubei in 1334.
		The plague repeatedly returned to haunt Europe and the Mediterranean throughout the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, and although the bubonic plague still exists with isolated cases today, the Great Plague of London in 1665-1666 is generally recognized as one of the last major outbreaks.
		The bubonic plague was the most commonly seen form during the Black Death, with a mortality rate of thirty to seventy-five percent and symptoms including fever of 38 - 41 °C (101-105 °F), headaches, aching joints, nausea and vomiting, and a general feeling of malaise.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Death (5703 words)

	History in Focus: Medical History
		In Paris, plague dead were buried in city churchyards, but not inside the churches: among the few Parisian burial records that survive, there are several cases of high- status people excluded from church burial because they had died of plague.
		Very large numbers of plague victims were buried, as we have seen, in small city churchyards in densely populated areas, and though St Bride's decided to refuse church burial to plague victims about halfway through the 1665 epidemic (having presumably allowed it thus far), several other parishes buried plague dead within their churches.
		When the bodies of plague victims were transported out of the city to the suburbs for burial, this was because there was no space to bury them within the city, not because they were thought to be a cause of infection once interred.
	www.history.ac.uk /ihr/Focus/Medical/epiharding.html (5442 words)

	Plague in the Ancient World
		Due to Procopius’ observation that the plague was not directly contagious, and the absence of the major symptoms of pneumonic plague in the accounts, namely shallow breathing and tightness in the chest, this form was probably not very active.
		Although the evidence for the plague being devastating to the empire stems from vague and unquantifiable literary accounts, the evidence to the contrary is not conclusive.
		Bubonic plague is endemic to the central Asian steppes and to central Africa.
	www.loyno.edu /~history/journal/1996-7/Smith.html (7657 words)

	Istria on the Internet - Architecture - Churches - Beram / Vermo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The bubonic plague was endemic in populations of infected ground rodents in central Asia, and was a known cause of death among migrant and established populations in that region.
		The bubonic plague was the most commonly seen form of the Black Death, with a mortality rate of thirty to seventy-five percent and symptoms including fever of 38 to 41 °C (101-105 °F), headaches, aching joints, nausea and vomiting, and a general feeling of malaise.
		The pneumonic plague was the second most commonly seen form of the Black Death, with a mortality rate of ninety to ninety-five percent.
	www.istrianet.org /istria/medicine/articles/black-death1.htm (5833 words)

	Wikinfo \| Black Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The Black Death (also The Plague, and latterly Black Plague though not called this in earlier times) was a devastating epidemic in Europe in the 14th century which is estimated to have killed about a third of the population.
		The plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis which is spread by fleas with the help of animals like the fl rat (Rattus rattus) -what we would call today the sewer rat.
		The plague was imported to Europe by the way of the Crimea, where the Genoese colony Kaffa (Feodosiya) was besieged by the Mongols.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Black_Death (850 words)

	Stepney Notes:The Black Death, the Plague and the churchyard
		The Plague (bubonic plague caused by bites from the fleas of infected rats), which had been raging on the Continent, finally reached England near the end of 1664.
		Those houses where someone appeared to have the Plague, (and often they died within a couple of hours of the symptoms appearing) were padlocked and guarded to prevent anyone leaving the premises.
		One plague pit was dug in Gower's Walk (off what is not Commercial Road) and human remains were found, without coffins, in 1893.
	website.lineone.net /~fight/Stepney/plague.htm (1767 words)

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		Her skill in the healing art was often tested by her charitable mistress, who required her to prepare remedies, as well as nourishing broths, for such of the poor of the parish as applied to her for relief at times of sickness.
		The plague is in her father's house." "The plague!" exclaimed Wyvil, in an altered tone, and dropping the point of his sword.
		If I survive the plague, she, I fear, will never be mine." Musing thus, he scanned the roof of the cathedral, and noticing its stunted central tower, could not help thinking how much more striking its effects must have been, when the lofty spire it once supported was standing.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/1/0/8/11082/11082-8.txt (20390 words)

	www.reviewingtheevidence.com \| THE PLAGUE MAIDEN, by Kate Ellis
		THE PLAGUE MAIDEN, by Kate Ellis, is the eighth Wesley Peterson cozy-ish police procedural set in Tradmouth, a fictional town in the West Country.
		As they seek to locate the geographic boundary of the burials, a test pit is dug, but this time the skeleton found is clearly 20th century, and so DI Wesley Peterson, Neil's flatmate from university days, and his team investigate.
		The victim is quickly identified as a young woman who went missing 12 years previously, shortly after the murder of the local vicar -- a case in which new evidence has separately come to light that strongly suggests the wrong man was convicted of the crime and that the police have serious questions to answer.
	www.reviewingtheevidence.com /review.html?id=3937 (459 words)

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		The plague cannot last forever." "No. But Lilly, the astrologer, who predicted its coming, also foretold that it would last for many months yet; and since one prophecy has come true, I see no reason why the other should not." "Except the simple one that there would be nobody left alive to take it.
		Usually the plague left its victims hideous, ghastly, discolored, and covered with blotches; but in this case then was nothing to mar the perfect beauty of the satin-smooth skin, but that one dreadful mark.
		While he stood contemplating it in perplexity, a watchman, on guard before another plague- stricken house, advanced and informed him that the whole family had perished of the disease, and that the landlord himself, the last survivor, had been carried off not twenty minutes before to the plague-pit.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext01/mdnqn10.txt (20966 words)

	Plague and Fire
		When her aunt dies of the plague the house is shut up, with Alice left alone in it.
		She finds Woolwich well guarded against Londoners and the threat of the plague, so she returns home and is soon reunited with her father who has recovered and has been released from the pesthouse.
		The cart had just reached the plague pit and the Piper was about to be thrown twenty feet into it when a small dog jumped onto the cart and began to bark loudly.
	www.marysmoffat.co.uk /bibliography/seven/plague.htm (2776 words)

	rpm.espn.com: Busch, Harvick collide on pit road
		The most glaring example was Kurt Busch's spin in pit lane during the second qualifying race.
		And, I hope that all of the people on pit road are safe, and that everybody that deserved to be in the show are in the show.
		Before the pit road incident, Harvick was happy with the way his No. 29 Chevrolet was running.
	espn.go.com /rpm/wc/2003/0213/1508549.html (556 words)

	CNNSI.com - 2002 Brickyard 400 - Pit problems plague Jarrett again at Indy - Sunday August 04, 2002 09:16 PM
		But during a pit stop on lap 127, the catch-can got stuck in the gas tank of his Ford as he roared away and NASCAR forced him back into the pits for a stop-and-go penalty that ended any shot he had at victory.
		He stopped just inside the entrance to the pits, and by the time his crew sprinted the several hundred yards to the car, then pushed it back to his pit for fuel, he was four laps behind the leader and in 37th place.
		He was in second when the cars went in to pit, and his crew took on just two tires in a stop that took under 9 seconds.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /motorsports/2002/brickyard400/news/2002/08/04/jarrett_ap (610 words)

	rpm.espn.com: Passing at premium in qualifying races
		Kevin Harvick was able to mount a challenge to Earnhardt early in their 50-lap race, but a collision in the pits took Harvick out of the picture.
		The small tanks added a pit stop to Thursday's races, and both were eventful.
		Busch was penalized a lap for his pit road spin, finished just ahead of Harvick at the back of the 25-car field, and will start 37th.
	espn.go.com /rpm/wc/2003/0213/1508450.html (1008 words)

	National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com)
		There are no estimates for China, which the plague struck a few years after it hit Europe, but the census of 1200 A.D. counted roughly 125 million Chinese; by the census of 1390 — a few decades after the plague had struck — the population of China had fallen to 63 million.
		One unusual feature of the plague of the Black Death is that there was a very high incidence of pneumonic plague, which is relatively uncommon in modern outbreaks of the disease.
		Not only did the plague more or less strike out of the blue, it produced death on an unimaginable scale — death not in the hundreds or thousands, which people were used to, but in the millions.
	www.nationalreview.com /script/printpage.p?ref=/interrogatory/kelly200509140843.asp (2071 words)

	On The Plague Maiden, Kate Ellis, 0749934611, Kate Ellis
		The fl death of 1348 was one of the most grim and dramatic events in British history, killing almost half the population and changing society for ever.
		At the start of The Plague Maiden, Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson receives information that the thief convicted of the brutal murder of a local vicar some 12 years before may be innocent after all.
		The Plague Maiden is the eighth book in my series featuring DI Wesley Peterson (the first fl archaeology graduate in Tradmouth CID) and his boss, Liverpudlian ex-merchant navy officer, DCI Gerry Heffernan.
	www.crimetime.co.uk /make_page.php?id=23 (632 words)

	The Great Plague 1665 - the Black Death
		In the spring and summer of 1665 an outbreak of Bubonic Plague spread from parish to parish until thousands had died and the huge pits dug to receive the bodies were full.
		The plague victims were buried outside the city walls and it is said that they have never been disturbed since then, as a precaution against a resurgence of the dreaded plague.
		This was filled with vinegar during times of plague as it was believed that vinegar would kill any germs on the coins and so contain the disease.
	www.historic-uk.com /HistoryUK/England-History/GreatPlague.htm (839 words)

	Amazon.com: The Great Plague: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year: Books: A. Lloyd Moote,Dorothy C. Moote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		A plague poison, the theory went, was spread from person to person by breathing and by putrid fumes from cesspits, rotten food, and other sources of putrefaction.
		As to the much-debated question of whether 17th-century plague was caused by Yersinia pestis, the agent of modern plague that is transmitted by the rat flea and the body louse, the authors incline cautiously to the affirmative but await definitive DNA testing of the dental pulp of plague victims from the 1600s and before.
		One of the last of these epidemics was the Great Plague of London in 1665 that killed probably a third of the population and left few families untouched.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801877830?v=glance (3005 words)

	London Underground - secrets - Topic Powered by eve community
		Still researching the plague pit, although I have seen snippets here and there, but nothing concrete yet.
		I believe that the 'Plague' can survive for some considerable time underground so plague pits are best avoided, just to be on the safe side.
		The fl death was much more virulent than bubonic plague and it's thought that it may have a virus rather than a bacterium that caused it- in which case it's probably safe to excavate a plague pit as the virus would be long dead.
	focusmag.infopop.cc /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/1086055653/m/167107668 (801 words)

	Black Death - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Moreover, what was previously considered to be final evidence for the Yersinia pestis theory, tooth pulp tissue taken from a 14th century plague cemetery in Montpellier containing Y. pestis DNA, was never confirmed in any other cemetery.
		Historical examples of pandemics of other diseases in populations not previously exposed, such as smallpox and tuberculosis amongst American Indians, show that because there is no inherited adaptation to the disease, its course in the first epidemic is faster and far more virulent than later epidemics amongst the descendants of survivors.
		Furthermore, the plague returned again and again and was recognised as the same disease through succeeding centuries into modern times when the Yersinia bacterium was identified.
	www.questionz.net /AIDS/Black_Death.html (834 words)

	Camden Islington & West End - News Reviews Listings
		BODIES may soon be removed from a ‘plague pit’ under a Finsbury primary school and nursery.
		Peter Powell, chairman of Islington Archaeology and History Society, said: “It may well have been a plague pit because it is just outside the City walls.
		The failure of the trial pits to discover bodies could mean they have already been removed, although there is no record of this.
	www.camdennewjournal.co.uk /090105/in090105_02.htm (424 words)

	CNN.com - A new plague - Jul 27, 2005
		CNN.com - A new plague - Jul 27, 2005
		This is the plague of terrorism that Britain now has to deal with.
		Just around the corner could be another police cordon, another sign that the plague of terrorism and of uncertainty are here.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/07/27/schuster.column/index.html (1125 words)

	Comments on 11635 \| MetaFilter
		5:44 AM Mum, I’m playing a syphilitic Hackney whore being impassively tupped by a boil-faced plague-pit digger in the desperate belief that my pox will cure his plague If you didn't have the chance to see the Channel 4 programme about the Black Death don't worry, this article is much more entertaining.
		I remember reading Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague a few years ago, '96, I think.
		Never did get all the way through A Journal of the Plague Year.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/11635 (195 words)

	The Black Death in Herefordshire
		The other archaeological pieces of evidence which are used to study the effects of the plague are the deserted medieval villages which dot our landscape.
		During this terrible time, the relics (parts of his body or skeleton) of St.Thomas were also carried through the streets in a religious procession in an attempt to ward off the Black Death.
		But the plague was very even-handed and members of the clergy were as badly affected as the rest of the population.
	www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk /education/The_Black_Death_in_Herefordshire.htm (845 words)

	Teacher's Store - Forced to Flee: Famine and Plague DVD -- 775957
		The potato is also discussed as a cheap source of nourishment for the Irish until bacteria devastated the crop and forced many to choose either starvation or emigration.
		Uncovering a mass plague pit in London, archaeologists have discovered skeletons of both humans and rats that were felled by the disease.
		Theories concerning how the Black Death disappeared are offered by experts who also tell viewers that the Bubonic plague has not been totally eradicated.
	shopping.discovery.com /stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10003&storeId=10003&productId=55303&langId=-1 (332 words)

	RealMagick Article: Sneezing: A Symptom or A Symbol? by Cheryl Lynne Bradley
		As my household has spent the past two weeks fighting the fall version of the pit plague crud, in between the God Bless You's and doses of cough medicine, I have had some time to contemplate on sneezing, or sternutation.
		In those times sneezing could have been the first sign that the sneezer had the plague and it was said as a blessing.
		In days not all that far past, small pox, plague and influenza were spread through sneezes and all carried a high mortality rate - "All fall down." Not a happy story for a such a sweet rhyme.
	realmagick.com /articles/64/2264.html (991 words)

	Minerva British Medical Journal - Find Articles
		To save her from this kind of stress, please be considerate to radiologists and give them credit where it's due.
		In 1349, hundreds of London's plague victims were buried in a plague pit to the north east of the Tower of London.
		But from severely limited data they concluded that plague pits were no more useful than ordinary cemeteries for studying dead populations.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0999/is_7293_322/ai_74798542 (399 words)

	Hose Knows » Sahara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		It’s the kind where the main characters run away from the bad guys at full speed, jumping over the edge of a cliff before looking for the protrusion that inevitably shows up for them to grab and save themselves from falling into a boiling pit of plague-infested lava.
		The plague was in the groundwater, or the underground river, or whatever it was.
		But it wasn’t a plague, it was chemical waste from the solar collection station.
	blogs.compnor.net /hose311?p=10 (239 words)

	Bagpipe Paintings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The story of Augustin is the story of the town "dudelsackpfeifer" who, after drinking his weight in good beer, passed out just outside of the Griechenbeisl and was thought victim to the plague.
		He was then tossed into the plague pit outside of town with all his possessions.
		The townspeople heard the "ruckus" coming from the pit and ran over to see what was happening.
	www.prydein.com /pipes/etchings5/augustin.html (151 words)

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