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Paul Fürst, engraving, c. 1721, of a plague doctor of Marseilles. However, though the beak mask has become an iconic symbol of the Black Death, there is no evidence it was actually worn during the 14th Century epidemic. Medical historians have in fact attributed the invention of the ‘beak doctor’ costume to a French doctor named Charles de ...
Influenza. What if the “great sickness” wasn’t Bubonic Plague or Sweating Sickness, but influenza? It was prevalent in Tudor England and fits with the description of Arthur’s feverish epidemic, and certainly one that could finish off someone already weakened by diabetes, tuberculosis or cancer, while the healthy Catherine pulled through.
And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”-‘The Masque of the Red Death’, Edgar Allan Poe (1842) Europe in the later Middle Ages and Early Modern period was not a healthy place.
A US-educated doctor of medicine (from where he took his nickname), Duvalier had campaigned on a platform to overturn the traditional dominance of the ‘mulatto’ elite, the minority who claimed mixed African and European descent and kept the country in a state of near-Apartheid with whole blocks of the capital out of bounds to the “noir ...
What do you think Saladin means to people today? Saladin means different things to different groups. For white supremacists, Saladin embodies the clash of civilisations and symbolises the inherent animosity of Islam towards Christians and Christianity.
“The doors opened and a nurse appeared with a tiny white flag. We went inside with fixed bayonets… Wounded were everywhere. Besides Poles there were also wounded Germans. They begged the SS-men not to kill the Poles. A Polish officer, a doctor and 15 Polish Red Cross nurses surrendered the military hospital to us… The SS-men killed all ...
After Crécy, the French signed a truce with the English that was prolonged by the outbreak of the Black Death but by the summer of 1350 the war resumed. English plans for an Anglo-Castilian marriage alliance involving Edward’s sister Joan fell apart when she died of the plague.
The version of the Edmund story we’re most familiar with comes from the end of the tenth century, and that definitely presents his death in black-and-white, native vs. invader terms – mostly because England at the time was dealing with a renewed threat of Viking invasion. But at other times the story was understood quite differently.
Following James’s death, Villiers’s enemies assumed the favourite’s ascendancy would come to an end. If anything, Villiers became more powerful under Charles. Benjamin Woolley’s new book The King’s Assassin: The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and James I is available on 24 August, priced £20 .
The doctors had pulled it off – without any guns and without secretly hiding anyone, they had managed to save at least 8,000 people from the horror and death of the concentration camps. When Dr. Lazowski returned to his homeland aged 87 he received a heroes welcome . To discover more amazing stories of history, subscribe to All About History now.