The Plague is on tonight

It began like the common cold. Then fever, baseball-sized black swellings on the neck, coughing of blood. Few lived more than two days. The year--1347. It was history's worst biological disaster and almost half of Europe's population died within three years. Visit the plague ships' rat-infested holds, witness the terror that swept through the towns, and walk with the religious flagellants. Follow a princess as she travels into the center of the plague, a doctor who struggles to understand what is happening, and a Jewish merchant caught up in violent attacks. Hear the actual words of the victims, taken from diaries and journals. From the Pope's palace to the humble huts of medieval peasants, watch as people live and die in the unforgiving grip of fear and death, and wonder how we would act if such a terrible event happened today.

Evo of USA, in the spring of 1348 you are a greedy Peasent.

You survive the plague, thanks no doubt to the lock of a martyr's hair you purchase from a peddler. You live to the age of 47, a village record!

The History Channel is repeating their documentary on the Plague tonight. It was very good.

If this doesn't put you in the Holiday spirit, nothing will.

The UK sight has the website presentation that went with the original.

http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/s...tes/theplague/

Can't British people spell? What, I'm a peasent?



http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/games/Plague/?

Moonbear of New Jersey, in the spring of 1348 you are a lecherous Nun.

Despite attending the sick and dying, you survive the Black Death as though by divine ordinance, and are regarded with awe.

Moonbear of New Jersey, in the spring of 1348 you are a lecherous Nun.

Despite attending the sick and dying, you survive the Black Death as though by divine ordinance, and are regarded with awe.

Surprising how many villages disappeared due to black death and enclosure, there are four sites with a five mile radius from me, not that there is much to see above or below ground,
but in some cases a church or a farm house remain.
within my area is, Chaple Ascot, Hodnel, East End and Watergal.

I'm going to have to come visit you some day Wolram. The historical sites in your area would be a dream to me.

robin of bishops itchington, in the spring of 1348 you are an odorous Physician.

Your knowledge of medicine saves you from the Black Death, as you bleed yourself profusely, and refuse to see any patients.

Stuff and nonsense, i would never bleed myself.

Just up on the hill i can see from my window is a church founded by the nights Templar
Google Burton dassett, it is very interesting.

NO FAIR!!!! How did you get "lecherous nun"?

Kurdt of Gateshead, in the spring of 1348 you are a vile Knight.



You are spared by the Black Death, only to be killed in a freak jousting accident.

Damn! I mean killed fair and square I could handle, but by a freak accident?

That's what you get for jousting with freaks!

Damn! I mean killed fair and square I could handle, but by a freak accident?