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What are these kids doing?

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The Plague

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What’s Going On In These Pictures?

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Danse Macabre

Hans Holbein (1500s)

Death comes to everyone, no matter what you are doing or who you are...

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Lübecker Totentanz by Bernt Notke (around 1463, destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942).

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What is the Plague?

  • A bunch of diseases hitting at the same time?
  • A bacterial infection transmitted by fleas on rats?
  • Early biological warfare?

DEADLY! Killed at least a ⅓ of the population of Europe, in some places 100%.

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Be prepared for grossness ahead

The next few slides are kind of gross, be prepared...

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EQ: Could the Plague happen again?

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EQ: Could the Plague happen again?

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