Smithsonian Magazine2d
On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
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The Origins Of The Iconic Beer Stein
Often seen as a cute, kitschy piece of German barware, the beer stein's signature look once served a very practical purpose.
Kirstin Downey: A Fire That Echoes More Than A Century Later
Honolulu officials thought fire could stop the bubonic plague from spreading through the growing city. But high winds ...
The Straits Times18d
Changi Airport’s 2024 passenger traffic hit 99.1% of pre-pandemic levels
SINGAPORE – Changi Airport handled 67.7 million passengers in 2024, which is 99.1 per cent of pre-pandemic levels in 2019 and just shy of a full recovery. This was a 14.8 per cent increase from ...
CNN18d
More than 1.4 billion people traveled internationally in 2024 as tourism returns to pre-pandemic highs
It’s true. The UN’s World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has just released its 2024 year-in-review data, confirming that the tourism industry has bounced back from the pandemic. About 1.4 ...
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Fauci Dismisses ‘Baseless Threats’ Over Handling Of Pandemic, Takes Pardon
The department made its decision based on evidence uncovered by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said on its website Friday. ...
The Conversation19d
A Passage to India: how global pandemics shaped E.M. Forster’s final novel
Forster started writing the novel after his first visit to India in 1912, when the country – along with much of Asia – was in the grip of the third plague pandemic. On the day he arrived in ...
Nature20d
Africa can’t wait for pandemic preparedness
On 11 November 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that a pandemic agreement would not be adopted at the December 2024 special World Health Assembly. Negotiators are thought to be ...
The Economist21d
Peter Sands of the Global Fund on the pandemic’s positive legacies
Even in rich countries, demand for oxygen overwhelmed hospitals in the first wave of the pandemic. In low- and middle-income countries, where nine out of ten hospitals had no medical-oxygen ...
USA Today23d
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen praises Biden's pandemic response in farewell address
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday mounted a robust defense of the Biden administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that its stimulus spending led to robust ...
CBC.ca23d
Bank of Canada admits it could have been clearer on pandemic-era measures in internal review
Bank of Canada signage is shown in Ottawa on Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. A Bank of Canada internal review found that the extraordinary measures it took during the pandemic could have been communicated ...
Daily Express24d
Emergency UK 'pandemic response' to be rolled out impacting thousands
Thousands of health workers, police and local officials across the UK will take part in a massive nationwide exercise to prepare for another Covid-style pandemic. And 87 million phones will get a ...