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The Medieval Disease That Killed Thousands of People and Then Vanished From History
Death and illness have never been strangers to humanity. But for a brief time around the 1500s, there was one particular ailment that was both brutal in its devastation and completely undecipherable to medical practitioners of the time. This malady was known as sweating sickness, and even today, scientists still don’t know where it came…
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7 Movies in Which Heat Is a Main Character
In Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, a summer heat wave descends on Brooklyn, pushing neighbours into the streets and stirring up boiling resentments. The heat is less of an environmental setting and more of a character unto itself.