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To: edcoil
Them was RATZ not mice . . . and probably DEMOratz, too.

(Hey, it's as reasonable as any of the rest of this wild speculation here.)

You're thinking of the Great London Plague of 1664-1665, which is generally considered to have been halted by the London Fire of 1666 (though the number of infected and deaths had already begun a steep decline). The Black Death was in the 1340s.

47 posted on 02/27/2006 12:54:14 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother

"You're thinking of the Great London Plague of 1664-1665, which is generally considered to have been halted by the London Fire of 1666 (though the number of infected and deaths had already begun a steep decline). The Black Death was in the 1340s."

It was still bubonic plague. There were scattered, periodic outbreaks throughout 1340 - 1666.


48 posted on 02/27/2006 12:59:47 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: AnAmericanMother

I thought the thing about the great fire was that people built with brick instead of wood after that, and for some reason that helped with the rodent population.


64 posted on 02/27/2006 2:39:11 PM PST by Flavius Josephus (The only good muslim is a bad muslim)
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