Bubonic plague

In the third chapter of Lies My Teacher Told Me, the author, James W. Loewen continues the topic of history teachers and textbooks not providing its students correct information, or leaving out details that are important to the specific topic of discussion The first specific topic Loewen discusses is the first settlers of what we now know as the United States. He describes that his students mostly said the first settlers were white men in the 1620s. Loewen then informs the reader that the first settlers

Mountain Meadows Massacre Mountain Meadows, Utah Mountain Meadows Massacre was staged on the Baker- Fancher wagon. The Massacre happened on September 11 ,1857. The Massacre was a huge deal for us in Arkansas. It was wrong on many levels and the people didn’t deserve it. Many things lead up to this tragic event, and many things happened during the this time. A group of Mormons were trying to escape the Indians, which were terrorizing them. They left Arkansas in a wagon train. The wagon train was

They have many reasons of both in similar and different. Hannibal and Mao Zedong are famous of leader. They were not born in same place. The first reasons is destination. Two of leaders are different in transportation. Hannibal go to destination faster than Mao. For example, The army of the Hannibal reached the River Rhone and accomplished the unbelievable task of building huge rafts to ferry the elephants across and The army of Mao many men died form lack of oxygen. Exhausted, they knew that

“I shrank back - but the closing walls pressed me resistlessly onward. At length, for my seared and writhing body, there was no longer an inch of foothold on the firm floor of the prison.” For a few moments my feet felt like they were floating on air. The warm air coming from the pit made me feel uneasy. I tried to grab on to the wall where two sections of the wall join together. For a moment I thought I was saved but I started my descent into the pit. The very horrid smell from decaying bodies caused

How To Get Rid Of Rats And Prevent Their Return Rats are among the worst pests to invade your home. They are so destructive that they can do a lot of damage to your home and your valuable possessions, especially if you have several rats. Not only that, they make your home smell bad and they can transmit diseases. You definitely want rats out of your house. Rat control involves two aspects. The first step is to get rid of all the rats in your house currently, and the second step is to seal up your

White nose syndrome is a fungal disease that has been devastating North American bat populations since 2006. It is characterized by a white “fuzzy muzzle”, wing lesions, and mortality. The epidemic has killed over 6.7 million bats to date; yet the majority of hibernating bats are not listed on the Endangered Species Act. Pseudogymnoascus destructans is the fungal pathogen that is both psychrophilic and keratinophilic and it invades the bats at a time when they are actively suppressing respiration

There were many variables in the population of the peppered moth, but the main factors is the environment around them. This environment changed severely with the industrial revolution and the pollution from many of the major cities at the time. At first without the effect of the black pollutants, the peppered moths would struggle on white trees they made their homes as they were very visible by predators. This changed when they could easily blend in against the blackened trees, and their lighter

The article from the Huffington Post entitled Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia: Home to the most brazen, deadly corporate gambits in U.S. history describes the atrocities performed in part by the DuPont chemical plant in West Virginia. The plant was dispersing its hazardous chemicals into the streams and landfills. The hazardous chemical known as C8 was causing extreme health effects to the local residents of the town of Parkersburg. People were getting severely ill and people’s cattle

Most doctors and medical experts held the view that the humours were affected largely by corrupted air, and that this was an adequate explanation for the pestilence. The causes of such a change in the air was attributed to three factors; astronomy, the weather (seasons, temperature, rains and winds), and the putrid vapour let off from decaying matter. Thus, under the umbrella of aerist theories it is possible to see distinctions between celestial and terrestrial causes. Whilst this may initially

Explain the underlying pathophysiology of this diagnosis Yersinia pestis is a gram-negative facultative intracellular bacterium and member of the Enterobacteriaceae family that is transmitted from rodents to humans by flea vector or, less often, from human to human or even animal to human by droplets or aerosols. There are other animal vectors as well like rats, prairie dogs, squirrels, rabbits and chipmunks. Y. Pestis proliferates in the lymphoid tissue. Bacteria migrate through the cutaneous lymphatics