I know, you think Angelica is a lovely name for a beautiful baby girl and so do I. But did you know that Angelica, a plant and herb also goes by the name. In China, Angelica plants are part of a species of herbs grouped under the name, Dang-qui or dong-quei or dong-quai, that are ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 years surrounding 1350, one-third of Europe’s population died from the Black Death. It was frightening because the people then didn’t understand where it came from or how it was spread. They only knew that when people developed the black buboes, the black lumps in their armpits and groin, that those people were likely ...
