... by the bacillus Yersinia Pestis, known as the most fatal disease of the Middle Ages. (Stefani) The Black Death varied in to three different forms: bubonic, pneumonic, and septiceamic. (http://historymedren.about.com/library/bideath.htm?once=true&)The first symptoms of the Bubonic plague was a blackish pustule, follwed ... by a swollen lymph nodes. Then bruise-like purple blotches, called buboes. Insommnia, delirium and stupor usually follows. Death comes in about 1-7 days. The Septicaemic plague is more like the bubonic plague. Very similar symptoms, but death occurs in one day of gettin...

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World War One was a horrific event. The number of known dead has been placed at about 10,000,000 men. The main method of combat during the first world war a.k.a. the Great World War, was trench warfare. Trench warfare was one of the main reasons so ... toll. The trenches were also a place full of disease, a part played largely by the rats. Rats in their millions infested trenches. There were two main types, the brown and the black rat. Both were despised but the brown rat was especially feared. Gorging themselves on human remains, they could grow to the size of a cat. Men, exasperated and af...

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... understandable that civilians would in fact try to get out of the country. So next time you hear someone complain about the refugees, just imagine them running across a desert with a gang of black-attired, sharp kukri-wielding madmen chasing them, and see if they'd still consider it a point of view ... of thousands. They even plan on taking in a total of 800,000, more than all of Europe combined in 2014. Germany is the golden boy of Europe right now, but other countries have taken a unempathetic and xenophobic approach. In 2014 Britain lobbied to stop a search and rescue operation called...

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In 1939, Wystan Hugh Auden fled from his home in Germany and came to America. The fascist regime of Nazi Germany was spreading across Europe like black ink spilt on a map. Never before had such destruction and terror been strewn across a continent in such a short period of time. As the boots ... , in fear of losing their own lives. We no longer pay attention to our martyrs, just as the people in the painting that Auden writes about, pay no attention to the boy falling from the sky. A martyr is, in essence someone who dies, or is killed for the sake of their beliefs or to teach the ... tells ...

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