Ring Around the Rosy. A Pocket Full of Posies. Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down. Today when children sing this well-known rhyme it doesn’t stir up the fear that it once did. The seemingly innocent song refers to the bubonic plague, known as the Black Death that swept through Europe, Asia, and Africa in the […]
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I know, you think Angelica is a beautiful name for a beautiful baby girl and I do. But you know that he also names Angelica, a plant and a herb. In China, the angelica plant is part of a group of herbs named Dang-qui or dong-quei or dong-quai, which are the two herbs of choice […]
The Middle age was a time period between the classical and the modern time period. The middle ages have been described as the dark ages, the age of feudalism, the age of faith and the golden age of Europe. According to the following accounts it was clearly an age of darkness. The dark ages consisted […]
In the Middle Ages in the 1300s, black plague killed millions of people throughout Europe. Some estimates place the number at 75 million deaths. It’s hard to imagine one disease killing so many people in a matter of a few years, yet it happened. There have been other pandemics of plague throughout history as well, […]