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Plague, Poverty and Prayer: A Horrid History with Terry Deary

Plague, Poverty and Prayer is a Horrible Histories exhibition at the York Archaeological Trust's Barley Hall in York, England.


A Journal of the Plague Year

In 1980 there was a Mexican Movie El Año de la Peste (The year of the plague), directed by famous Mexican director Felipe Cazals, with a screenplay written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which was based on A Journal of the Plague Year.

In the Daria telemovie Is It Fall Yet?, Daria's sister Quinn borrows A Journal of the Plague Year from Daria when attempting to avoid her mother.

Anne of Bohemia

Anne's death from plague in 1394 at Sheen Manor was a devastating blow to Richard, whose subsequent unwise conduct lost him his throne.

B.P.R.D.: The Soul of Venice and Other Stories

The trade was later collected as a part of the Plague of Frogs cycle in the B.P.R.D. Omnibus format, along with Hollow Earth & Other Stories and B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs.

Barban

In the second half of the 13th century, having been depopulated by the plague in 1312, a small colony of Dalmatians from Finodol settled in the area, brought by the counts of Gorizia.

Bauska

In 1711 an outbreak of plague ravaged Bauska, exterminating half of the population, and war returned once more in 1812, when Bauska became one of Napoleon's army's transit point en route to Moscow.

Betty MacDonald

MacDonald also published three other semi-autobiographical books: Anybody Can Do Anything, recounting her life in the Depression trying to find work; The Plague and I, describing her nine-month stay at the Firlands tuberculosis sanitarium; and Onions in the Stew, about her life on Vashon Island with her second husband and daughters during the war years.

Black Bands

It retreated from the siege with the remainder of the French army—crippled by the plague—and surrendered to the Imperial forces in late 1528, disbanding shortly afterwards.

Clowne

The plague struck Clowne in 1586 and 1606, and victims were buried away from the village at Monument Field or Plague Field.

Columba of Terryglass

When Saint Finnian was in extremis, suffering from the plague, Columba administered Holy Viaticum.

Council of Pavia

In the history of the Catholic Church, the Council of Pavia usually refers to the fifteenth century Council of Pavia-Siena of 1423/4, which was convened at Pavia and then moved to Siena because of the plague.

Dakhamunzu

The deaths of both Suppiluliuma and his immediate successor Arnuwanda II might be seen as an indirect result of the Zannanza affair because both succumbed to a plague brought to Hattusa by the prisoners from Amqu.

Edward H. Hume

From 1903-1905 Hume was in Bombay as an Acting Assistant Surgeon in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service to monitor the Plague outbreak that had started in 1896.

Eimuntas Nekrošius

1994 Nekrošius received a special prize of the Lithuanian Theatre Union as the Best Director of the Year, and an award of the Baltic Assembly for Aleksandr Pushkin's Little Tragedies (Mozart and Salieri. Don Juan. Plague) as the best theatre performance in the Baltic States.

Festering Hate

The last traces of recognition for Cereal Killer and The Plague appear in Rafael Moreu's 1995 film, Hackers.

Jamie McGinn

Cortisone, rehab, and major surgery in the summer of 2008 helped alleviate the pain, though the lingering effects still plague Mcginn, especially due to his high-pace playing style.

Karl Plagge

In this letter he compares himself with the character of Dr. Rieux in Albert Camus' novel The Plague and describes his hopeless struggle against a plague of death that slowly envelops the inhabitants of his city.

Leśnik, Opole Voivodeship

In the village there are two chapels; one dedicated to Saint Urban I and another built to commemorate the plague of 1649.

London Dungeon

The show incorporates events such as the Black Death and the Gunpowder Plot, and includes characters such as "The Torturer", "The Plague Doctor", and "The Judge".

Lycée français Alexandre Yersin

Lycée Français Alexandre Yersin was named after the Alexandre Yersin, a French and Swiss Physician who found the pathogens for the bubonic plague.

Marduke

Marduke was Shaun's partner in the guard, but when one of their missions, to the Ardennes region of France, meant that they had to save a beautiful woman from the Order, while she saves her family from the plague, and then leave her to die, they fell out.

Marian and Holy Trinity columns

The first column of this type north of the Alps was the Mariensäule built in Munich in 1638 to celebrate the sparing of the city from both the invading Swedish army and the plague.

Mostec

It is a late Baroque church built in 1767 in thanksgiving for the end of the plague.

Muhammad Shams-ul-Haq Azimabadi

In 1910–11 the entire country was in the grip of an epidemic of plague.

One Flea Spare

One Flea Spare, by Naomi Wallace, is an award-winning play set in plague-ravaged 17th Century London.

Otto Louis of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen

He died of the plague at Speyer and was buried in Strasbourg Cathedral.

Parisina Malatesta

She married Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara, in Ravenna in 1414, whose first wife Gigliola da Carrara died a few years before and was welcomed by a Ferrara ravaged by plague.

Pébrine

Louis Pasteur was the first one to recognize the cause of this disease when a plague of the disease spread across France.

Petrus Apianus

When the plague broke out in Vienna in 1521, he completed his studies with a B.A. and moved to Regensburg and then to Landshut.

Plague cross

Memorial crosses to individual plague victims were also set up at churches, as at Trittenheim.

Plague Mass

Plague Mass is a live album by Diamanda Galás.

Plague of Emmaus

The Plague of Emmaus (طاعون عمواس in Arabic, ţā`ûn 'amwās transliterated), also known as the Plague of Amwas, was an outbreak of plague, possibly bubonic plague, that occurred in 639 in the town of Emmaus (Amwas) in Palestine.

Raffaello da Montelupo

(Legend holds that in 590 the Archangel appeared atop what was then the mausoleum of Hadrian, sheathing his sword as a sign of the end of the Roman plague, thus lending the fortress its present name).

Santa Maria di Costantinopoli

The apse lunette was decorated by Belisario Corenzio with a fresco of the Virgin & John the Baptist pleading with the Trinity to liberate Naples from the plague.

São Bento Palace

In 1615, the monks settled in the area of the Casa da Saúde (Health House), that housed people sick with the plague.

Saxon Peasants' Revolt

The wildlife plague caused by noble gamekeeping reserves initially led to unrest in game in Wehlen, which rapidly spread to other districts (Ämter).

Skúvoy, Skúvoy

In the 14th century the plague (The Black Death) killed all inhabitants of the island except for one young girl.

The Cloven Viscount

The Viscount Medardo of Terralba, and his squire Kurt, ride across the plague-ravaged plain of Bohemia en route to join the Christian army in the Turkish wars of the seventeenth century.

The Crippled God

In the former, he indirectly assisted the Army of the Apocalypse in the book House of Chains, and in the collapse of the army at Raraku, re-invented the Apocalypse in the form of a plague, with the assistance of Poliel in the book The Bonehunters.

The Plague

Cottard and Tarrou attend a performance of Gluck's opera Orpheus and Eurydice, but the actor portraying Orpheus collapses with plague symptoms during the performance.

The Plague Lords of Ruel

The Plague Lords of Ruel is the thirteenth book in the award-winning Lone Wolf book series created by Joe Dever.

Third plague pandemic

At this time, British health officials began to press for widespread vaccination using Waldemar Haffkine’s plague vaccine, although the government stressed that inoculation was not compulsory.

Tielt

The following decades, however, were hard on Tielt as it went through two major fires and a couple of epidemics, including the plague.

U. Muthuramalingam Thevar

In 1924 he missed his final examinations due to an outbreak of a plague epidemic.

U.S. Route 49

Continuing on 49 brings one to the cloverleaf interchange at U.S. Route 11, one of very few in the South to lack merging lanes between loop ramps, thus altering the usual weaving patterns which plague many of these interchanges.

Vojislav Vojinović

He died of the plague on October 25, 1363, and was buried in the Serbian Monastery of Saint Nikola of Debar, in Priboj on the Lim, the inscription on his tomb says: "Great Duke of All Serbian, Greek and maritime lands".

Vrykolakas

The film, directed by Mark Robson and produced by legendary horror producer Val Lewton, centres around a group of people on a small island, whose lives are threatened by a force that some believe to be the plague, and others believe to be the work of a vorvolaka.

Wendy Orent

Domaradskij credits himself with much of the research leading to the creation of an antibiotic resistant strain of Yersinia pestis, the plague germ.

Zundel Salant

Rabbi Yoseph Zundel Salant died due to the plague on Friday October 12, (3rd Cheshvan) 1866 and was buried on the Mount of Olives.


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