The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and ...

On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” The words are Ecclesiastes 1:9 – among my ...

In Water on the Moon, Frederick M. “Skip” Burkle, Jr., MD recounts his life from childhood up to 2024, when he was 83. Having been drafted during the ...

Bubonic plague conjures images of facing the Black ... at the wharves in the vicinity of the Wanganui Railway Station. The history of the outbreak is of special interest at the present time.

Haunted locations around the world, such as India's Bhangarh Fort, China's Forbidden City, Paris's Catacombs, Canada's ...

The role of the ultra-wealthy has morphed from one of shared social responsibility and patronage to the freewheeling ...

It was during a Tory rally on July 20, 1957, organized to commemorate 25 years of public service by Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, ...

In “Summer of Fire and Blood,” Lyndal Roper tells the story of the serfs who fought for a better life and the elites who ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has never seen a camera he didn't hog or a bottle of hair gel he didn't like, bears a rather suspicious physical resemblance to a superhero movie villain.