plague
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Welcome to the challenges of writing the history of the Black Death, the great pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the late medieval world.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
How did the plague stick around for nearly half a millennium after the initial wave, causing repeated outbreaks?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
The deepest mystery of the plague is why this bacterium—in normal times a pathogen of wild rodents—erupted to cause some of the most world-altering disease outbreaks on record.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
It was the beginning of a long age of plague.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
It was a terrible thing, a plague that swept everything before it.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
Vocabulary lists containing plague
A Long Walk to Water
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The Diary of Anne Frank
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Unit 1: Telling Details
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