Some seven centuries ago, a man in Scotland had a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day indeed. There he was, going about the business of living, when something interrupted. Something that slammed ...

Stories of wandering spirits and the restless dead were common in the Middle Ages. These ghostly encounters were recorded in ...

In the middle of the 14th century, the Black Death swept Europe, killing millions of people, but archaeologists have recently discovered that its effects were far-ranging and surprising. People living ...

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A plague of serious proportions is ravaging the world. But not for the first time. From 1347-51, the Black Death killed anywhere from one-tenth to one-half (or more) of Europe’s population. One ...

Almost 700 years ago, the overwhelmed physicians and health officials fighting a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague in medieval Italy had no notion of viruses or bacteria, but they understood ...

In 1829, hundreds of spinners and weavers had gathered at the Norfolk Arms Hotel when the floor collapsed under them. In the tumble, the crowd fell two stories, all the way into the cellar. Thirty ...