Often seen as a cute, kitschy piece of German barware, the beer stein's signature look once served a very practical purpose.

OUR county is a cosmopolitan, ethnically-rich and diverse community that has benefited enormously from multiculturalism.

Honolulu officials thought fire could stop the bubonic plague from spreading through the growing city. But high winds ...

Sydney Sweeney is circling a revisionist new take on Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death.’ The Red One couldn’t ...

The Premier’s statement is verified that plague existed in rats in places other than Wellington. In Dunedin, the rats have ...

The Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 was one of the last significant outbreaks of the bubonic plague in Europe ...

Bubonic plague, or the ‘Black Death’ as it became known during ... The pandemic became the deadliest event in human history, killing a quarter of Europe’s population. It contributed to the end of the ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague has killed hundreds of millions and left a gruesome mark on history. The Black Death, which struck 14th-century Europe, led to the ...

The Black Death — also known as bubonic plague — has killed 200million people worldwide and medics fear a super-strength version may now appear. The team behind the Oxford AstraZeneca ...