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Black Plague
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The human ripples of pain are still heartbreaking when made visible to us now. Our friend Agnolo the Fat wrote: “Father abandoned child, wife husband, one brother another; for this illness seemed to strike through the breath and sight. And so they died. And none could be found to bury the dead for money or friendship. Members of a household brought their dead to a ditch as best they could, without priest, without divine offices.” The essence of that account is of an epidemic destroying the very
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― The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
― The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
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