Bubonic plague conjures images of facing the Black Death during the Great Plague of London in 1665. However, New Zealand also had a brush with plague rats in 1900, as seen in the newspapers below.

Dating back to ancient times, black has been linked to the darkness envisioned in death and the afterlife ... 2016 Dec;42(12):1653-1665. Kuniecki M, Pilarczyk J, Wichary S. The color red attracts ...

Moser was writing of Adriaen Coorte (1665-1707), a Golden Age Dutch artist I’d only just discovered, in another book about the Dutch masters: “Thunderclap: A Memoir of Life and Art and Sudden Death” ...

Next time you’re in Langar Hall, you must admire the late Georgian elegance and the beauty of the surroundings, writes ...

London faced one of its deadliest disasters—the Great Plague. The bubonic plague, carried by rats and fleas, spread rapidly ...

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ...

W hen the Black Death hit London, England in 1348 CE, it began to affect the English language. Due to the class struggle imposed on England by the Norman Conquest in 1066 CE, the linguistic makeup ...

The world was no stranger to plague outbreaks: The most famous, known as the Black Death, killed as many as 50 million people in Europe beginning in 1346. Scientists believe infected fleas were ...

After the death of Peter Fenwick, a neuropsychiatrist who studied near-death experiences, readers shared stories of their own. Credit...Rachel Levit Ruiz Supported by By Michael S. Rosenwald In ...

The jury had found that Sutton caused Hylton-Brown's death by driving a police vehicle ... months after the killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt ...

“It is incredibly invasive and it is incredibly traumatizing,” Hurlbert said of the decision, adding the alleged victim and her family had to move around the country several times due to death ...