Some believe the 1889 Russian flu pandemic was actually caused by a coronavirus – here’s why that’s unlikely: COVID-19 was the first coronavirus pandemic. The original Sars virus from 2003 and the Mers virus that created a health emergency in South Korea in 2015 were both coronaviruses, but fortunately failed to turn into pandemics in …
A cool Paternoster image: Image from page 1263 of “The fruits and fruit-trees of America;” (1889) Image by Internet Archive Book Images Identifier: fruitsfruittrees07down Title: The fruits and fruit-trees of America; Year: 1889 (1880s) Authors: Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 Downing, Charles, [from old catalog] ed Subjects: Fruit-culture Fruit Publisher: New York, J. Wiley …
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Odd inheritance: 1889 landmark courthouse with clock tower new: George Beckwith got the surprising phone call a few months ago, informing him that he soon would be an owner of a 19th-century courthouse in Connecticut, nearly 1,400 miles from his home in Missouri. The 78-year-old resident of Goodman, in southwestern Missouri, knew about the unusual …
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