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Sverdlovsk anthrax leak: 2 April 1979 Around 105 victims. On 2 April 1979, an outbreak of anthrax occurred in Sverdlovsk, USSR. It is believed that anthrax spores were accidentally released from a secret military facility. An official report stated that 64 people died during April and June.
Aeneas Flees Burning Troy, by Federico Barocci (1598). Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy Map of Aeneas' fictional journey. The Aeneid (/ ɪ ˈ n iː ɪ d / ih-NEE-id; Latin: Aenēĭs [ae̯ˈneːɪs] or [ˈae̯neɪs]) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.
The 412 BC epidemic of an unknown disease, often identified as influenza, [1] [2] [3] was reported in Northern Greece by Hippocrates [4] and in Rome by Livy. [5] Both described the epidemic continuing for roughly a year. [citation needed]
Studies indicate that lead was very prominent in Roman beverages. This is mostly due to the lead-based storage containers that were popular during the time. [6] Some scholars speculate that the levels of alcohol consumed on a daily basis were more to blame for the health ailments of the aristocrats of Rome, with the average consumption rate being approximately 3 bottles of wine a day. [6]
In December 2009, an outbreak of anthrax occurred among injecting heroin users in the Glasgow and Stirling areas of Scotland, resulting in 14 deaths. [23] It was the first documented non-occupational human anthrax outbreak in the UK since 1960. [ 23 ]
Kiernan recounts genocidal events in ancient Sparta, and the destruction of Carthage by the Roman Republic; and reviews the writings of Hesiod, Cato the Elder, Julius Caesar, Virgil's Aeneid, Livy's history of Rome, and Aristotle and Aquinas on natural slavery, as sources from antiquity that were relied upon to justify later genocides.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department said that, so far, the moose is the only wild animal with a documented case of anthrax in this outbreak. The last confirmed case in the wild was in Sublette ...
The book Gödel, Escher, Bach contains a lengthy description of the encoding/decoding procedures, including an illustration of hiding a message within a message by emboldening certain characters. [129] According to the FBI Summary Report, "[w]hen they lifted out just the bolded letters, investigators got TTT AAT TAT – an apparent hidden message".