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A quotation from Ben Franklin

There are three great destroyers of mankind, Plague, Famine, and Hero. Plague and Famine destroy your persons only, and leave your goods to your Heirs; but Hero, when he comes, takes life and goods together; his business and glory it is, to destroy man and the works of man.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard Improved (1748 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/85…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #conqueror #conquest #destruction #famine #glory #hero #plague #war #warfare

🎯 Pure #TrumpVirus - "terrific people on both sides" of him. And only the best "concepts of concepts" driving him

Perfect, just like Sir - who reportedly saw, somehow, that his photobombing and meandering was being widely ridiculed, just as he was being widely boo'd.

#truth #ContextAndPerspective #evil #BrainSpurs #photobomb #WorldCup #narcissism #plague #WarCrimes #TrumpEpsteinFiles #coverup #football #soccer #WorldCup #FIFA

Remembering the plague

The Redentore Feast, which is held this weekend, commemorates the end of the plague epidemic, which savaged Venice in 1575–77.

In those two disastrous years, between fifty and sixty thousand persons died, in a city with a population of just three times that.

One Venetian in three died of the plague.

It is difficult to fathom a disaster of such dimensions. It is even harder to understand what it did to the people who lived through it.

#1500s #Plague #RepublicOfVenice #Venezia #Venice

Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/remembering-the-plague/

A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

EPIDEMIC, n. A disease having a sociable turn and few prejudices.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Epidemic,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1883-04-28)

More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/84987…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #contagion #disease #epidemic #illness #plague #sickness

The First Pandemic? Scientists Find 214 Ancient Pathogens In Prehistoric DNA

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/07/11/the-first-pandemic-scientists-find-214-ancient-pathogens-in-prehistoric-dna/

“Plague DNA found in human remains from over 4,000 years ago is genetically quite different to the plague strains which caused the Black Death in Europe.

Prehistoric plague strains lack a gene that allows the bacteria to effectively hijack fleas, turning them into bubonic #plague delivery systems.”

#archeology #genetics

https://theconversation.com/prehistoric-plague-could-have-caused-population-collapse-in-stone-age-europe-285854

Dire times!

https://piefed.social/c/lotrmemes/p/2174711/dire-times

5,500-year-old plague outbreak killed Siberian hunter-gatherers, ancient DNA reveals

When most people think of plague, they picture medieval Europe, crowded streets, and rats carrying infected fleas. New research suggests the disease was already killing people thousands of years before any of those conditions existed...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/5500-year-old-plague-in-siberia/

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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #plague #huntergatherer

The oldest known #plague #outbreak struck #huntergatherers 5,500 years ago
The find challenges the idea that plague needed dense farming villages to become deadly.
Found at one of four ancient burial sites, the discovery predates the previous oldest signs of plague by several hundred years. It also indicates that hunter-gatherers were at risk from outbreaks of plague many centuries before the invention of farming and settled villages
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/plague-outbreak-oldest-hunter-gatherers
https://archive.ph/Ldpdk

#Archaeology
#AncientDNA provides evidence of earliest known #plague outbreak

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/17/ancient-dna-evidence-earliest-known-plague-outbreak

#science #history #medicine #infectiousDisease #epidemic

#plague : a contagious disease

- French: peste

- German: plagt

- Italian: peste

- Portuguese: praga

- Spanish: plaga

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Fill in missing or incorrect translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations

So I missed my train connection due to some slight delay and got in an extra cathedral and SURPRISE!!! my former colleague Vanessa, now president at Trinity College!!! Also, found a plague votive panels with saints Sebastian and Roche from 1485.

Hard to be mad about the complications when they have happy outcomes!

#plague #stSebastian #StRoche #15thc #friends #TrainTravel #travel #Lugano

Basel plague study finds young workers had highest death rates in 17th century outbreak

Burials from a 17th-century hospital in Basel offer a close look at who faced the highest risk during one of the city’s last plague outbreaks. The graves date to around 1665 to 1670, a period when plague returned to the region...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/04/basel-plague-study-17th-century-outbreak/

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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #plague

The Black Death killed ~100 million people between 1347 and 1353, including half the population of London.
* Was the London experience representative?
* Impact of London evidence?

IHR lecture by Thomas Asbridge, 24 June: https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/keene-london-lecture-26-black-death-london

@medievodons @histodons

#BlackDeath #IHR #medieval #London #plague

Planned engineered super-flu is coming.

Be alert.

#flu #COVID #vaccine #Godshealer7 #apocalypse #homeless #disabled #PrisonLife #prison #plague

paracelsus arrived

paracelsus arrived
before the south gate
was unlocked

while he waited
to ask the watchman
if the pestilence had come
to wittenberg before he had

the east gate 
was opened like an eye

and the morning’s early sun
that had risen from where it waited

its shining entered 
the town like a tide

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@Monolecte/116624424466739447

Here Comes the Plague
"The CDC has experienced significant layoffs, including the permanent firing of around 600 employees in August 2025, amid a chaotic restructuring under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr." -BBC
I doubt they have the leadership to stop this like they did in the 90s before several waves of attrition by our Nazi Party since the year 2000.
#USA #PublicHealth #Nazi #Austerity #Plague

I think they mention some version of this in the Bible.

#bees #whitehouse #plague

The Lombard Invasion

The Lombard invasion of Byzantine Italy was a pivotal event in Venetian history.

The invasion, and the conquests that followed, led to an increased importance of the lagoon settlements, to a slow demise of Byzantine control in north-east Italy, to the establishment of a semi-independent church in the lagoons, and ultimately to Venetian statehood.

The Lombard invasion, and the subsequent migration of parts of the mainland residents into the lagoons, became a central part of the later Venetian national narrative — the stories they told to explain where they came from and who they were.

#Avars #Gepids #histodons #Invasions #Lombards #Plague #Venezia #Venice

Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/article/early-venice/the-lombard-invasion/

“The document – a scrap of parchment inserted into an account of the Ramsey Abbey manor of Warboys in Huntingdonshire – records how much time peasants were absent from work when struck down by the plague. It also reveals the names of those who survived and how long their employers believed recovery could take.“

What a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague

https://theconversation.com/what-a-list-of-black-death-survivors-reveals-about-the-way-people-recovered-from-plague-275622

#history #medieval #england #plague