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📰 On this day 🔹1345
Conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, thought by scholars at the University of Paris to be the "cause of the plague epidemic" known as the Black Death. Actual cause was the bacterium yersinia pestis spread by fleas, rats and other animals.
Medieval painting from 1353 showing the citizens of Tournai (today in Belgium) burying victims of the Black Death
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Conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, thought by scholars at the University of Paris to be the "cause of the plague epidemic" known as the Black Death. Actual cause was the bacterium yersinia pestis spread by fleas, rats and other animals.
Medieval painting from 1353 showing the citizens of Tournai (today in Belgium) burying victims of the Black Death
#OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr