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The Temporal Dynamics of the Fourteenth-Century Black Death: New Evidence from English Ecclesiastical Records
Human Biology; 8/1/2003; Wood, James W; Ferrell, Rebecca J; Dewitte-Avina, Sharon N; 7153 words;
... questioned whether the European Black Death of 1347-1351 could possibly have ... versus those reconstructed for the Black Death from English church records-specifically ... institution has made it look as if the Black Death passed slowly through specific ...
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Duration of Urban Mortality for the 14th-Century Black Death Epidemic
Human Biology; 6/1/2005; Olea, Ricardo A; Christakos, George; 4333 words;
Abstract The Black Death epidemic of 1347-1351 was one of the ... must have been smaller. KEY WORDS: BLACK DEATH, EPIDEMIOLOGX MEDIEVAL DEMOGRAPHY ... previous large-scale epidemics. The Black Death remains the worst natural disaster ...
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Revealed: Ancient clues that tell how Black Death could return to kill us all A television documentary will claim this week that the 'plague' which killed millions was actually a virus that we would be just as powerless to fight today
Mail on Sunday; 10/10/2004; SAMUEL COHN; 1220 words;
The Black Death that scythed through Europe in the 14th ... it must have been responsible for the Black Death. They pointed to the work of Italian ... the horrifying carnage wrought by the Black Death and wrote about it in The Decameron ...
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The black death: the greatest catastrophe ever: Ole J. Benedictow describes how he calculated that the Black Death killed 50 million people in the 14th century, or 60 per cent of Europe's entire population.
History Today; 3/1/2005; Benedictow, Ole J.; 3994 words;
... DISASTROUS MORTAL disease known as the Black Death spread across Europe in the years ... tragedies: Petrarch lost to the Black Death his beloved Laura to whom he wrote ... children with my own hands'. The Black Death was an epidemic of bubonic plague ...
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&type=1 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Revealed: Ancient clues that tell how Black Death could return to kill us all; A television documentary will claim this week that the 'plague' which killed millions was actually a virus that we would be just as powerless to fight today.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 10/10/2004; 1224 words;
Byline: SAMUEL COHN The Black Death that scythed through Europe in ... must have been responsible for the Black Death. They pointed to the work of Italian ... horrifying carnage wrought by the Black Death and wrote about it in The Decameron ...
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&type=1 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Health Watch: So what really caused the black death?(Female Times)
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 12/12/2001; 830 words;
Byline: JOHN VON RADOWIZ The Black Death plague that swept through Europe ... conclusion is chilling - that the Black Death was probably not caused by plague ... that bubonic plague caused the Black Death dates back to the late 19th century ...
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Black babies still face worst odds '89 Mass. data show death rate is at least 2.8 times that of whites
The Boston Globe; 3/28/1991; Dolores Kong, Globe Staff; 893 words;
Death rates among black and white infants in Boston and ... dropped in 1989, but the rate among black babies continued to be as much ... sharp drop in the percentage of black women receiving adequate prenatal ... development that could drive the black infant mortality rate even ...
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Why blacks should favor death penalty
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 5/25/1997; JEFF JACOBY; 833 words;
... pronounced: 55% of black D.C. residents polled favor the death penalty generally ... be executed than black murderers, and ... there is racism on death row, it is certainly ... tragically in America's black precincts. Homicide ... leading cause of death among young African-America ...
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Waters, Black Caucus Launch Crusade over Death Penalty Disparity
Los Angeles Sentinel; 6/17/1998; 1052 words;
... Angeles Sentinel 06-17-1998 Waters, Black Caucus Launch Crusade over Death Penalty Disparity WASHINGTON ... story of racial discrimination in death penalty sentencing from Washington ... and put it on the lips of every black American, says the Congressional Black Caucus chief. "The ...
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&type=4 "Talk of the Nation (NPR)")
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Author, Scientist deGrasse Examines 'Death by Black Hole'
Talk of the Nation (NPR); 1/5/2007; IRA FLATOW; 5865 words;
... they say, well tell me about the black hole and the quasar and the gamma ... talking with Neil Tyson, author of "Death by Black Hole, And Other Cosmic Quandaries ... NATION: SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR News. (Soundbite of music) FLATOW ... here with Neil Tyson, author of "Death by Black Hole, ...
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Sudden infant deaths high among blacks
The Boston Globe; 7/17/1992; Associated Press; 494 words;
ATLANTA -- Black babies remain more ... victims of sudden infant death syndrome, although ... those, 13,322 were black, 33,083 were white ... Weekly Report. For black infants, the 1988 rates ... race of sudden infant death syndrome in the United ...
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Cancer Death Rates Still Loom Higher for Blacks Than Whites; It Depends on Where You Live, If You Smoke or Are Poor
The Washington Post; 1/16/1990; Sally Squires; 1508 words;
... the new report are increased death rates in black men from cancers of the prostate ... causes of cancer deaths for black men. Death rates for black men in the District ... percent. Oral cavity. Among black men, death rates rose 15 percent every ...
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Death Rate Gap Widens; Black-White Mortality Trend Continuing
The Washington Post; 1/8/1992; David Brown; 661 words;
... expectancy between black and white Americans ... yesterday. The rising death rate of young black men - primarily because ... steeper. "The causes of death that are acting on ... more intensively for black youth than they are ... rate dipped and the black rate rose slightly ... trend toward ...
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Death taxes bad for Black businesses
Miami Times; 8/1/2000; 659 words;
Miami Times 08-01-2000 Death taxes bad for Black businesses Do you ... grow, the damage that death taxes impose on the Black community will also ... CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. "Eliminating the `death tax' will be a great ...
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Scholar's Research on Black Death and Dying foreshadows a Personal Tragedy
The Broward Times; 10/11/2002; 702 words;
... the gravesites of prominent black Americans including Richard ... whenever she wrote the phrase "black death," her word-processing program ... was from a local television news station. While Holloway and ... continually broadcast scenes from his death scene. She and her husband were ... mortician, ...
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