Burst and Ruptured “WHAT?” 9 people just exploded?
well 13 died of … 'planet ’ …
There is a witty quip on the tip of me tongue but I shall not utter it.
Poor souls how they must have suffered. We are so fortunate
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Cancer and Wolf?
‘Wolf’ could be used to describe a cancer anywhere on the body , but was, as Dionis observed, most commonly used to designate tumours and ulcers on the legs.”
Well fancy that!
Very interesting thread! 
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Hey that’s just London…earlier here though…
From 1348 to 1350, in Paris, there was not enough living to bury the dead. This sentence, which is not an exaggeration, summarizes the incredible catastrophe that struck Paris with the rest of Europe with this epidemic of plague.
It was unprecedented and remains the deadliest epidemic in Paris in proportion of the population. One can only imagine the consequences of a nuclear war to get an event of similar proportions.
Coming from Asia and spreading through trade and wars, it made 25 million of victims, which was about 40% of the European population.
They are all bad times but possibly not as bad as 536AD when the sun didn’t really shine for several years and crops failed all over the world leading to mass starvation.