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Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts. His first novel Fanshawe was published anonymously in 1828. Some short stories were published in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales. He married Sophia Peabody in 1842.
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Leucippus was a Greek philosopher of the 5th century BCE. He is credited with founding atomism, with his student Democritus. Leucippus divided the world into two entities: atoms, indivisible particles that make up all things, and the void, the nothingness between the atoms.
1849: cholera New York [19] 1850: yellow fever - United States. 1850 - 1851: influenza - North America. 1851: cholera Coles County, Illinois, The Great Plains, and Missouri. 1852: yellow fever - United States (New Orleans-8,000 die in summer) 1855: yellow fever - United States [20] 1860 - 1861: smallpox - Pennsylvania.
Jaundice (also called icterus) is when the skin and the whites of the eyes become a yellow color. [1] People with jaundice have a problem with their liver, which stops it from removing heme properly. Heme (from hemoglobin) changes to a chemical called bilirubin after red blood cell death. [1] Bilirubin causes the yellow coloring of the skin.
Yellow Fever is a play by R. A. Shiomi, which takes place on Powell Street in Japantown, Vancouver, a gathering place for the local Japanese-Canadian culture. Set in the 1970s, the Sam Spade -like main character, Sam Shikaze, must work to unravel the mysteries that surround him. [2] First produced by the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in 1982, it ...
The 1853 yellow fever epidemic of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean islands resulted in thousands of fatalities. Over 9,000 people died of yellow fever in New Orleans alone, [1] around eight percent of the total population. [2] Many of the dead in New Orleans were recent Irish immigrants living in difficult conditions and without any acquired ...
Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a disease caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi bacteria, also called Salmonella typhi. [2] [3] Symptoms vary from mild to severe, and usually begin six to 30 days after exposure. [4] [5] Often there is a gradual onset of a high fever over several days. [4]
