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Bring out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793

Book by J. H. Powell; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993

Subjects:

Yellow Fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th Centur

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Inc. Bring Out Your Dead THE GREAT PLAGUE OF YELLOW FEVER IN PHILADELPHIA...1971 Bring out your dead: the great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia...Defoes description of Londons great plague of 1665 and conned them avidly...
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A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Publick as Private, Which Happened in London during the Last Great Visitation in 1665

Book by Daniel Defoe, Louis Landa; Oxford University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Fiction, London (England)--History--17th Century--Fiction, Plague--Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The text and notes are reproduced from the Oxford English Novels edition. The new Introduction sheds light on the relationship of the Journal to Pepys's diary, and a new medical note relates the latest research on the Plague.
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Images of Plague and Pestilence: Iconography and Iconology

Book by Christine M. Boeckl; Truman State University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Plague In Art, Plague In Literature

Collections: Entire Library

...1869 ...144 Fig. 7.4. The Great Plague of London, relief etching...written in the wake of Athenss Great Plague in 427 B.C., was to argue for...the other hand, exercised a great deal of influence on plague iconography, in particular...
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A Journal of the Plague Year: Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London

Book by Daniel Defoe; J.M. Dent, 1908

Subjects:

Plague--London, 1665

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...manner, thus Plague, 2. Parishes infected...The people showed a great concern at this, and...all the time of the great plague last year in Amsterdam...having practised with great success in the late plague in this city, anno...
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The Plague Pamphlets of Thomas Dekker

Book by F. P. Wilson, Thomas Dekker; Clarendon Press, 1925

Subjects:

Plague--England--London

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Elizabethans. Himself a great sufferer, he has...for the starved and plague-stricken wretches...same Parke which great Iulius Coesar inclosd...a most dreadfull plague. This is the Abstract...Canons like their great Bells 30...32- roard : the Plague tooke sore paines...

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The Great Plague

Journal article by Robert Martensen; Medical History, Vol. 45, 2001

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Great Plague by Robert Martensen Stephen Porter, The great plague, Thrupp, Sutton Publishing, 1999, pp...social arrangements. Stephen Porters The great plague provides the most comprehensive historical...
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London's Dreaded Visitation: the Social Geography of the Great Plague in 1665

Journal article by A. Lloyd Moote; Medical History, Vol. 41, 1997

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Visitation: the Social Geography of the Great Plague in 1665 by A. Lloyd Moote...visitation: the social geography of the Great Plague in 1665, Historical Geography Research...studying mortality patterns of the Great Plague without concentrating on plague...
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The Great Plague: the Story of London's Most Deadly Year

Journal article by J. N. Hays; Medical History, Vol. 52, 2008

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Great Plague: the Story of Londons Most Deadly Year...Lloyd Moote and Dorothy C Moote, The great plague: the story of Londons most deadly year...paperback 0-8018-8493-4). The London plague epidemic of 1665 occupies an unusually...
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The Great Influenza: the Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

Journal article by Stephen C. Schoenbaum; Journal of Public Health Policy, Vol. 25, 2004

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The Great Influenza: the...of the Deadliest Plague in History...John M. Barry. The Great Influenza: The...of the Deadliest Plague in History. New...book entitled The Great Influenza: The...of the Deadliest Plague in History would...
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Guido Reni's Pallione del Voto and the Plague of 1630

Journal article by Catherine R. Puglisi; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995

Subjects:

Art, Art criticism, Art history, Italy, Plague, Reni, Guido (1575-1642)

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...Madonna of Saint Luke. A century earlier, during the great plague of 1527, Bologna had successfully beseeched the Madonna...symbolism, the rainbow is not present in other Emilian plague paintings.(46) Moreover, its insertion in a votive banner...

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London's Mascot Rodent: Since the Great Plague, Rats Have Played a Prominent Role in the Life of the Capital

Magazine article by Stephen Smith; New Statesman, Vol. 131, July 15, 2002

Subjects:

London, England--Natural history, Rat control--History, Sewer systems--England

Collections: Entire Library

Londons mascot rodent: since the Great Plague, rats have played a prominent role in the life of the...fleas who piggybacked on the rats were the vector of the Great Plague, but goes on in strong-stomached fashion: "The spread...
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America

Magazine article by Howard Schneider; The Humanist, Vol. 68, July 2008

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed...frustrating new book, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed...preponderance of the evidence in The Ten-Cent Plague, he appears, overall, to have been...
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Treacherous Tea Cozies, Trousers Plague Great Britain

Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, July 30, 2001

Subjects:

Accidents--Statistics, Henderson, Mark--Works, Tea making paraphernalia--Accidents, Trousers--Accidents, United Kingdom--Accidents

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Treacherous Tea Cozies, Trousers Plague Great Britain by Stephen Goode...often said that the United States and Great Britain are two nations separated...growing threat to human health" in Great Britain. "The toll of accidents caused...
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Plague: A New Thriller of the Coming Pandemic

Magazine article; Foreign Policy, November 2009

Subjects:

Epidemics--Portrayals, Epidemics--United States, Novels--Authorship, Novels--Social aspects, Plague--Portrayals

Collections: Entire Library

...by Manhattan. Such a death is hardly the torture of bubonic plague, but singularly impressive for its rapidity nonetheless. With...from drowning in ones own secretions. I personally developed great respect for influenza as a 17-year-old when I contracted the...
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Moral Rorschachs: '1984' and 'The Plague' after Half a Century

Magazine article by David L. Kirp, Andrew Koehler, Jaime Rossi; The Nation, Vol. 266, May 4, 1998

Subjects:

1984 (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, The Plague (Book)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...science was bent to support this point of view, "If AIDS is the Plague of the Eighties," Michael Fumento insisted in The National Review, "then homosexuals are the rats." On the other side of this great cultural divide, the fight against this disease and the social...

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THE GREAT AIDS MYTH? the Doom-Mongers Say It Is a Global Plague That Will Annihilate Whole Nations. but a Growing Number of Influential Voices Claim the Scale of the Aids Epidemic Has Been Vastly Exaggerated. the Mail Went to the Heart of Africa to Try to Discover the Whole Truth

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 12, 2004

Subjects:

United Nations

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

THE GREAT AIDS MYTH? the Doom-Mongers Say It Is a Global Plague That Will Annihilate Whole Nations. but a Growing Number...repeatedly told that it would soon become a heterosexual plague. However, infection rates among straight Europeans and...
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RETURN OF THE WHITE PLAGUE; It Was One of History's Great Plagues, Virtually Eradicated Here 20 Years Ago. Now TB, Whose Deathly Pale Victims Drown in Their Own Blood, Is Back with a Vengeance. Could Political Correctness Be to Blame?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 23, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

RETURN OF THE WHITE PLAGUE; It Was One of Historys Great Plagues, Virtually Eradicated Here 20 Years Ago. Now TB, Whose...inoculations. But now the disease - once known as the white plague because of the ghostly pallor of its victims - is reappearing...
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No Plague Here for 340 Years!

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), June 21, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...is thought to have started as a way of giving thanks for the end of the Great Plague, which swept through Britain from 1665. According to local legend, during the plague a barricade was made at Barracks Fold, to prevent diseased villagers in...
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The Flu Plague of 2006; Will a Future Outbreak Kill Millions?

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), January 12, 2000

Subjects:

United Kingdom

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...million people in 1918. BOB SHIELDS imagines life after the great plague of 2006 ...IT started with a sniff ... but no-one told...000 EEC victims a day. "Its not an epidemic - its a plague," said one newspapers front page. "Its the Aids of...
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Plague Pits for 320,000 Bird Flu Victims; BURIAL PLANS

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), April 3, 2006

Subjects:

Avian influenza, Burial

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...320,000 deaths, the Home Office report warns. It adds: "Common burial stirs up images of the burial pits used in the great plague of 1665. "Even ramping local management capacity by 100 per cent, the prudent worst case of 320,000 deaths is projected...

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Plague

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...infection always precede great epidemics in human populations. Sylvatic plague, still another form...Europe and Asia. The great plague of London in 1665...2004); W. Orent, Plague (2004); J. Aberth, The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348...
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Great Britain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...that led to the murder of Thomas a Becket . Henry carried out great judicial reforms that increased the power and scope of the royal...began (1337) in the reign of Edward III. The Black Death (see plague ) first arrived in 1348 and had a tremendous effect on economic...
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Constantine V , Byzantine Emperor

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...against the Arabs, Slavs, and Bulgars, improved the water supply of Constantinople, forcibly resettled the city after a great plague, and continued his fathers financial and religious policies. In 754 he summoned a synod at Constantinople, which sustained...
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Hereford , Town and District, England

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...other years it is held at Gloucester or Worcester .) The nearby White Cross commemorates the termination of the great plague in the mid-14th cent. A grammar school was founded there in the 14th cent. Hereford was the birthplace of Nell Gwyn...
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London , City, England

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...struggles with the crown on behalf of its democratic privileges, culminating in the English civil war. In 1665, the great plague took some 75,000 lives. A great fire in Sept., 1666, lasted five days and virtually destroyed the city. Sir Christopher...

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