Bob W wrote: > > Hi, > > > Bob, that stuff is interesting to me. They had a program on the tv here in > > the US about the huge graveyard full of plague victims that they found in > > London. > > we have plague pits everywhere. It killed a lot of people and some > communities still have festivals every year to celebrate their > salvation - particularly well-dressings in Derbyshire, where they > garland the wells with flowers.
[. . .] > This sort of thing is quite common here, and presumably also in other > parts of Europe. One of the interesting beneficial side-effects of the > plague in England was that as a result of so many deaths, demand for > agricultural labour outstripped supply, which led to significant improvements > in the power of the common man, the end of feudalism and the birth of > the idea of ordinary people having rights and freedoms. That's quite interesting! I never thought of it that way. Must have been asleep during that portion of my history lessons. When in Vienna one time, I visited a catacomb, under a cathedral I think, wherein tens of thousands of bones lie, all separated into femurs, skulls, humerous's, and such. Each bone had it's own place, and all skulls here, all femurs there, so neatly stacked. . . keith whaley
