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Black Death, designed by Greg Porter, is a game in which players are diseases sweeping across medieval Europe in 1347. [1] The game components are: a board with a stylized map of the trade routes in medieval Europe; a 3-page rulebook; punch-out cardboard counters; a deck of Event cards; two 6-sided dice
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas and through the air.
J. Robert Beck reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "The Black Death would be of interest to high school and college students studying epidemiology, as part of a general or population biology course. As a game it's a good example of a cooperative strategy problem.." [1]
The Black Death brought a halt to Edward's campaigns by killing perhaps a third of his subjects. [71] The only Plantagenet known to have died from the Black Death was Edward III's daughter Joan in Bordeaux. [71] The Battle of Crécy was an important Plantagenet victory of the Hundred Years' War in France. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Those declared guilty were burned to death, while their supposed accomplices were banished from Zurich. [ 1 ] Because of lack of contemporary chronicles reporting the story of the murder of the child (which is first mentioned in written sources roughly two hundred years after the event) some modern historians doubt its veracity.
SKIDROW is a well-known cracking group originally formed in 1990, cracking games for the Amiga platform, and having used the motto "Twice the Fun - Double the Trouble!" since then. A piece of cracktro software released by SKIDROW in 1992 with the game 10 Pinball Fantasies contained a complete list of their membership at the time. [73]
In April 2007, a rumour was confirmed on the Swedish talk show Bert that The Pirate Bay had received financial support from right-wing entrepreneur Carl Lundström. This caused some consternation since Lundström, an heir to the Wasabröd fortune, is known for financing several far-right political parties and movements like Sverigedemokraterna and Bevara Sverige Svenskt (Keep Sweden Swedish).
The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish historical fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.Set in Sweden [3] [4] during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) and a game of chess he plays with the personification of Death (Bengt Ekerot), who has come to take his life.