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The Padres have twice advanced to the World Series, losing 4–1 to the Detroit Tigers in 1984 [252] and being swept 4–0 by the New York Yankees in 1998. [253] Aside from those 2 World Series appearances, the Padres have only made the playoffs 5 other times. In 1996, 2005, and 2006, the Padres lost the NLDS to the St. Louis Cardinals.
Bubonic plague 2 million – 1772–1773 Persia: 15 735–737 Japanese smallpox epidemic: Smallpox 2 million 33% of Japanese population [15] 735–737 Japan 16 Naples Plague: Bubonic plague 1.25 million – 1656–1658 Southern Italy 17 1889–1890 pandemic: Influenza or human coronavirus OC43 [16] [17] 1 million – 1889–1890 Worldwide 18
The Black Death ravaged much of the Islamic world. [55] Plague was present in at least one location in the Islamic world virtually every year between 1500 and 1850. [56] Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Algiers lost 30,000–50,000 to it in 1620–1621, and again in 1654–1657, 1665, 1691, and 1740–1742. [57]
Mortality from bubonic plague today is between 1% and 10%, whereas septicemic plague may have mortality as high as 50% — and if untreated, it's over 90%. Fleas can spread other diseases too
Last Shot is the first in Feinstein's Sports Beat series, followed by Vanishing Act: Mystery at the U.S. Open (2006), Cover-Up: Mystery at the Super Bowl (2007), Change-up: Mystery at the World Series (2009), The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game (2010), and Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics (2012).
Wade remembers holding practices on carpeted church basketball floors and on courts so cramped that the 3-point lines nearly touched. As recently as five years ago, FLBC’s basketball teams held ...
Men's college basketball plays two 20 minute halves. Women's play four 10-minute quarters. ... Men's college basketball is the only visible form of the game in the world that does not have ...
The Cleveland Cavaliers are a professional basketball team who have played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) since 1970.. Over the franchise's first 16 years, the team produced just three winning seasons, the highlight being the 1975–76 "Miracle at Richfield" team, whose improbable playoff run was doomed by an injury to Jim Chones. [19]