The Black Plague, and a political cautionary tale
The Black Plague of 1665 and the Lord Mayor of London: In 1665 the plague came to London. They called it the “Black Death”—black because of the color of the nasty lumps that signaled its presence in the victim’s body, and death because of the invariable result. The plague germs were carried by fleas that […]
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