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  2. Ring a Ring o' Roses - Wikipedia

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    "Ring a Ring o' Roses", also known as "Ring a Ring o' Rosie" or (in the United States) "Ring Around the Rosie", is a nursery rhyme, folk song, and playground game. Descriptions first appeared in the mid-19th century, though it is reported to date from decades earlier. Similar rhymes are known across Europe, with varying lyrics.

  3. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    Ring-a-Ring o' Roses 'Ring Around the Rosie' United Kingdom 1881 [85] Origin unknown, there is no evidence linking it to the Great Plague or earlier outbreaks of bubonic plague in England. Roses Are Red: Great Britain 1784 [86] A rhyme similar to the modern standard version can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland. Row, Row, Row Your Boat ...

  4. Shoots and Ladders - Wikipedia

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    "It was written because all these little kids sing these nursery rhymes and they don't know what they originally meant. Everyone is so happy when singing 'Ring Around the Rosie' but it is about the Black Plague. All of them have these evil stories behind them." – Jonathan Davis [10]

  5. The Plague Never Went Away: What to Know - AOL

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    T he plague sounds like something out of a history book. But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great Pestilence”—that killed more than 25 million people, about a third of ...

  6. Talk:Black Death/Archive 2 - Wikipedia

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    The actual term "Ring Around the Rosie" refers to the ring that would form around the inflamated limphnodes when a person contracted the Black Death. "Pocket Full of Posie" is when the people who didn't have the Black Death would carry around posie to keep out the smell of rotting flesh. "Ashes, Ashes" is refering to the burnination of the corpses.

  7. Eyam - Wikipedia

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    The plague story interspersed with other stories of self-sacrifice. Ring Around the Rosie by Anne Hanley; staged reading by Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre (Alaska), 2004. [72] Plague at Eyam, a script for young adults published by the Association of Science Education, 2010. [73]

  8. Oregon's first case of human plague in 8 years likely came ...

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    Where does plague occur in the U.S.? On average, the U.S. sees around seven cases of human plague each year, mostly in the rural West. Cases are typically concentrated in northern New Mexico ...

  9. History of plague - Wikipedia

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    the second plague pandemic from ~1331 to ~1855, spreading from Central Asia to the Mediterranean and Europe (starting with the Black Death), and probably also to China [3] the third plague pandemic from 1855 to 1960, spreading from China to various places around the world, notably India and the West Coast of the United States. [4]