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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly avg rating 3.80 — 364 ratings — published 2005 5 editions |
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Sophisticated Boom Boom by John Kelly avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2003 |
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The Little Hammer by John Kelly avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2000 2 editions |
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The Spy-Catcher Gang by John Kelly, Kate Simkins avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2008 |
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The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats by John Kelly avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2006 2 editions |
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A W.B.Yeats Chronology by John Kelly avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2003 |
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The Robot Zoo: A Mechanical Guide to the Way Animals Work by John Kelly, Obin Philip Whitfield avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1994 |
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Chicago Stations & Trains Photo Archive by John Kelly avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2008 |
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Growing Plants from Seed by John Kelly avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1996 |
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John Kelly (2wice Arts Foundation Monograph) by John Kelly avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2001 |
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"[According to 1348 theorists, poisoning of Christian water by Jews was the cause of Black Death.]
Even the poison used to contaminate the Christian water supply was described in meticulous detail. It was "about the size of an egg," except when it was the "size of a nut" or a "large nut," "a fist" or "two fists"- and it came packaged in "a leather pouch," except when it was packaged in "linen cloth," "a rag," or a "paper coronet"; and the poison was variously made from lizards, frogs, and spiders- when it was not made from the hearts of Christians and from Holy Communion wafers."
— John Kelly (The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time)
Even the poison used to contaminate the Christian water supply was described in meticulous detail. It was "about the size of an egg," except when it was the "size of a nut" or a "large nut," "a fist" or "two fists"- and it came packaged in "a leather pouch," except when it was packaged in "linen cloth," "a rag," or a "paper coronet"; and the poison was variously made from lizards, frogs, and spiders- when it was not made from the hearts of Christians and from Holy Communion wafers."
— John Kelly (The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time)
"Additionally, many widows took over family shops or businesses- and, not uncommonly, ran them better than their dead husbands. Y.pestis [black death germ] turns out to have been something of a feminist."
— John Kelly (The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time)
— John Kelly (The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time)
