Saturday, December 16, 2017

Rewrite the history books

James of Ireland beat Marco Polo to China. .

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and the English are not "Anglo Saxons": They have a lot of DNA of the 'Iron age" inhabitants of that country (read Celts) and other DNA from nearby Dutch. 

MaryBeard discusses an Algerian born soldier in Roman Britain and the multi ethnic composition of their soldiers with the racists of both sides.

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The famine of 1314,

“A kink in Europe’s climate during the fourteenth century indirectly triggered a seven-year cataclysm that left six million dead,
this may have weakened the population, so made them more vulnerable to the Black death.

and the cat killing hysteria was not the cause of the spread of the plague: History for Atheists, a site that debunks this in detail.
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Scientific America reprints a 1911 article on the black plague epidemic in China and India at that time and killed tens of millions of people.

 This was the "Third plague epidemic" (the first being the Plague of Justinian and the second the Black death of the middle ages).

it even spread to San Francisco... and from there, into the squirrel population, and left a small nucleus of germs in various wildlife in the South Western USA, which is why the IHS docs in the Navajo reservation see a couple cases each year.

which is why the WHO is worried about the latest epidemic in Madagascar spreading to mainland Africa, although the isolation and treatment of cases seems to be working.

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Related item: Genetically modified Rats? 


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