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The History Channel is repeating their documentary on the Plague tonight. It was very good.
The UK sight has the website presentation that went with the original.
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/microsites/theplague/
If this doesn't put you in the Holiday spirit, nothing will.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.
The UK sight has the website presentation that went with the original.
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/microsites/theplague/
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