From volcanic eruptions, disease epidemics and storms, to floods and fires, these are the worst natural disasters in Europe's ...

As the world says goodbye to 2024, many will be wondering what the next year will bring. However, some prophetic figures from ...

Southampton was a Georgian town once languishing in post-plague doldrums before it blossomed into a fashionable seaside resort.

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If you attend Michigan State University, perhaps you’ve seen a sculpture of three women standing outside the University ...

Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in ...

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As the media alarms us about an approaching ‘quad-demic’ of diseases this winter (Covid-19, Flu, RSV, Norovirus) it is a ...

What she calls the last great plague of colonial India, which also began in China in the 1850s, is a case in point. Spreading rapidly via sea trade, it reached Hong Kong in 1894, where its impact ...

The bubonic plague has cropped up in the US for the first time in nearly a decade. But, thanks to modern medicine, it is much less deadly than its notorious past. When 'The Great Plague' struck ...

The reframing of our minds is a prerequisite to really fast economic, social, and political growth and development. This ...