tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123631695572626256.post6799501078994582342..comments2024-03-28T15:09:50.863+00:00Comments on Shadows & Light: The Black DeathSteve Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123631695572626256.post-18799667275856162992014-04-05T06:58:04.323+01:002014-04-05T06:58:04.323+01:00Sorry to disappoint, but:
http://www.popsci.com/bl...Sorry to disappoint, but:<br />http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/our-modern-plagues/no-rats-are-not-exonerated-black-death<br /><br />In short, these so-called new findings are just a re-wording of facts that were long known, in order to promote a TV show. Yeah, the media is being sensationalist over nothing, surprising, ain't it?Yaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15514268969406634684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123631695572626256.post-13708740150409623202014-04-04T06:34:15.703+01:002014-04-04T06:34:15.703+01:00Jennie: I hope your bones will tell some fascinati...Jennie: I hope your bones will tell some fascinating stories! :)<br /><br />Ms Moon: I think about that too. We are surrounded by relics of the past!<br /><br />Angella: No, it was definitely plague, not flu. DNA from the teeth of the skeletons shows the presence of the Yersinia pestis plague bacteria. But it was the same Yersinia pestis that we deal with today, and easily cure with antibiotics. (So far!)<br /><br />Sharon: I hate scaffolding! The bane of my existence! I'll have to check out that museum.<br /><br />Ellen: It does seem that way to us now, but of course we know a lot more about what feces contains. (Besides, the streets were probably full of shit from animals anyway. What's a little more?)<br /><br />Linda Sue: Interesting that you rebelled (a bit) against your folks' atheism. We all need to find our own identity, don't we?<br /><br />Bug: Yeah, me too. Sometimes it seems like it would have been exciting -- I would love to go back in time and see it for just a day -- but I'm sure life really was "nasty, brutish and short."Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123631695572626256.post-58871182595125997382014-04-04T02:39:59.749+01:002014-04-04T02:39:59.749+01:00I've often thought about how I wouldn't wa...I've often thought about how I wouldn't want to live in a different era - I like my modern conveniences (especially the lasik surgery I had to correct my terrible vision - ha!).The Bughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509037206264761261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123631695572626256.post-47172056331735633302014-04-03T22:02:38.050+01:002014-04-03T22:02:38.050+01:00wow, interesting post, almost thrilling in that it...wow, interesting post, almost thrilling in that it excites my DNA. Probably a lot of our relatives are buried there. I had not heard that finding but am intrigued! Having read life and times of christ, realizing that historical perspective is required to understand the rise of christianity it makes sense that the church was a haven. I used the Episcopalian church as a haven in my hole of a town growing up- it was nice, clean, had fresh flowers, beautiful windows and pretty music- I spent my offering $ on tootsie roll before church time, sat in the back and just enjoyed myself. Never bought into the religion but really appreciated the church. My folks were atheists.<br />Linda Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03070050388987072100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123631695572626256.post-49127734240047987052014-04-03T17:06:02.012+01:002014-04-03T17:06:02.012+01:00I did see/read about that. it still amazes me how...I did see/read about that. it still amazes me how dirty they were, throwing the contents of their chamber pots out in the street in front of their homes along with all the other garbage. I know there was no education but doesn't it just stand to reason that throwing your feces out your front door is a bad idea?ellen abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00535475792150335186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123631695572626256.post-36346139559474725232014-04-03T16:31:16.466+01:002014-04-03T16:31:16.466+01:00I went to Charterhouse Square when I was there in ...I went to Charterhouse Square when I was there in London hoping to get a nice photo of that great art deco building. Unfortunately, it was covered in scaffolding at the time. But, I did find a lovely little museum there telling the history of Charterhouse and it's role in creating hospitals in London. It was one of those surprise finds that I enjoy so much when visiting London.Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07645915869786296771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123631695572626256.post-11831787525895050642014-04-03T15:14:49.209+01:002014-04-03T15:14:49.209+01:00I think I was a peasant in deplorable circumstance...I think I was a peasant in deplorable circumstances in a past life in London. I have always had an instinctive shrinking from that city, which your experience if it, shared here, has quite frankly done much to ameliorate. I have also been weirdly obsessed with the bubonic plague my whole life and and absolutely phobic about rats and even mice. And now we find it may just have been an especially virulent flu? Fascinating. 37paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12400464105403622384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123631695572626256.post-30415706262933087902014-04-03T14:03:21.764+01:002014-04-03T14:03:21.764+01:00I do think about the bones underneath my feet a lo...I do think about the bones underneath my feet a lot. Not just of humans but of animals. Everything that ever lived that died and left a skeleton. I think of that when I'm in a boat on the ocean, too. Of course, eventually, every skeleton gives up itself to dirt or water or time or decay. <br />But for a long time, there they lay, able to give up their secrets should they be found. Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123631695572626256.post-16586314335903265062014-04-03T11:25:15.665+01:002014-04-03T11:25:15.665+01:00That's the reason I would like to be buried in...That's the reason I would like to be buried instead of cremated when my time comes. I hope that someone will dig me up in e few hundred years and wonder!?!?JennieBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06470756350440304293noreply@blogger.com