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  • 1plague-pit — plagueˈ pit noun A common grave for plague victims • • • Main Entry: ↑plague …

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  • 2Plague pit — A plague pit is the informal term used to refer to mass graves in which victims of the Black Death were buried. The term is most often used to describe pits located in Great Britain, but can be applied to any place where Bubonic plague victims… …

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  • 3Plague —    The Great Plague ravaged London, and other places, in 1665/6, and as with all major events generated its own set of beliefs and customs at the time, and also reverberating ever since. We are fortunate to have in Daniel Defoe s A Journal of the …

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  • 4Plague of Athens — The Plague of Athens was a devastating epidemic which hit the city state of Athens in ancient Greece during the second year of the Peloponnesian War (430 BC), when an Athenian victory still seemed within reach. It is believed to have entered… …

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  • 5Pit Bull — This article is about the group of breeds commonly called Pit Bulls. For the specific breed from which the term is derived, see American Pit Bull Terrier or American Staffordshire Terrier. Pit Bull is a term commonly used to describe several… …

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  • 6Great Plague of Vienna — The Great Plague of Vienna occurred in 1679 in Vienna, Austria, the imperial residence of the Austrian Habsburg rulers. From contemporary descriptions, the disease is believed to have been bubonic plague, which is caused by the bacterium Yersinia …

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  • 7Riders of the Plague — is the second full length album by The Absence. It was released on August 7, 2007 on Metal Blade Records.Track listing# Riders of the Plague – 4:01 # Dead and Gone – 5:02 # The Murder – 5:22 # Echos – 5:05 # World Divides – 5:35 # Prosperity –… …

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  • 8Old St. Paul's (novel) — John Franklin s illustration of Paul s walk for Old St. Paul s Old St. Paul s is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth serially published in 1841. It is a historical romance that describes the events of the Great Plague of London and the …

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  • 9Black Death — ), [ [http://www.pasteur.fr/actu/presse/press/07pesteTIGR E.htm Researchers sound the alarm: the multidrug resistance of the plague bacillus could spread] ] but recently attributed by some to other diseases.The pandemic is thought to have begun… …

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  • 10Corpus Christi College, Cambridge — Colleges of the University of Cambridge Corpus Christi College …

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