7 Worst Killer Plagues in history Smallpox (430 BC? - 1979): Killed more than 300 million people worldwide in the 20th century alone‚ and most of the native inhabitants of the Americas Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a contagious disease unique to humans. Smallpox is caused by either of two virus variants named Variola major and Variola minor. The deadlier form‚ V. major‚ has a mortality rate of 30–35%‚ while V. minor causes a milder form of disease called
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Continent. As a result of this medical ignorance diseases and plagues prospered in this region. Such prosperous diseases include the most well known killer in history‚ the black death; otherwise known as the bubonic plague. It was believed widely that the bubonic plague originated in Europe in the 14th century‚ due to the fact that it is taught mainly in this time frame. Although it was most known in the late 1300s‚ the Bubonic Plague in fact originated in 430-427 B.C. Athens was the first country
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Assignment 2 Erin Thrower POLS 1113 11/3/2007 Prof. Kelton The Worst President in History In the Rolling Stone article‚ "The Worst President in History"‚ Sean Wilentz evaluates the first five years of President Bush’s presidency. Wilentz is a well renowned historian and a professor at Princeton University. Wilentz begins his article by comparing Bush to the likes of worst presidents already in history. Those include Buchanan‚ Johnson‚ Harding‚ Hoover‚ and the only President forced to resign
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The Worst Mistake? According to Jared Diamond’s text‚ the Agriculture Revolution is thought of being the worst mistake made in human history where as when humans hunted and gathered was the high peak. He also states that domesticating crops brought great confusing creating social classes and inequality between men and women. I completely disagree with this opinion. First of all the Agricultural Revolution was a crucial element when forming earliest civilizations. Second‚ I don’t think that
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Mariela Rivera Luis Garavito “La Bestia” The World’s Worst Serial Killer Luis Garavito‚ who I will describe as a human animal on my research is the worst serial killer in the world. His full name is Luis Alfredo Garavito‚ born on January 25‚ 1957 Colombia‚ this animal serial killer was convicted of the horrible killing 189 boys in the 1990s. He is also known as “la bestia” the beast‚ this animal mainly focused on very poor neighborhoods and looks for kids at the age of six to
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The Watergate scandal was massive‚ but I don’t feel that it is the worst in history‚ although it would appear that way in the eyes of others. Maybe because this was before my time‚ but I don’t find the Watergate scandal surprising. Since then‚ there have been other scandals involving different presidents‚ including sex scandals and controversy around accurate voting counts. In my honest opinion‚ I feel the counting of votes controversy to be far worse. But to most people‚ during that time‚ I see
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One of the worst days in modern American history is September 11‚2001. That day was a horrific day of events. On that day the leader of Al-Qaeda Osama Bin Laden ordered the attack on the Twin Towers in downtown Manhattan. This attack was the worst attack in history. When the towers came down it killed almost 3 thousand people. Ever since I was young I have always had a great deal of respect for our service men and women. I come from a military background. Both of my grandpas were in the military
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The Plague Paper The Plague‚ written by Albert Camus‚ is a thought-provoking piece of literature. The novel is centered around the fictional Algerian town of Oran. The town is plunged into chaos and suffering when a mysterious plague appears and ravages the citizens who live there pushing them towards the brink of collapse. There are two distinct themes in this novel. The two themes of indifference in death and the value of human life are seen throughout the novel ’s entirety. Death itself is indifferent
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The Great plague Plague has been in England for centuries but it really affected England in 1665-1666. The plague was brought down in 1666 when badly infected areas were burned down. The country of England was growing in population so a lot of people were living in poverty. Because of this the only way to get rid of rubbish was to throw it in the streets and that included human waste. All this rubbish brought in rats and the plague started to spread because of fleas. The first case was in the
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The History and the Present State of the Bubonic Plague The Bubonic Plague got it’s name because of the symptoms of the disease. Bubonic plague causes swollen lymph nodes‚ called buboes. These swollen lymph nodes are found in the groin area‚ which is "boubon" in Latin (Discovery).This disease became known as a "plague" because of its huge fatality rate throughout time. Bubonic plague was also known as the "Black Death" in Medieval times. This is because the dried blood under the skin turns
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