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01/07/2025

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." — George Santayana
A reminder of the importance of learning from history to avoid making the same mistakes again.

Downtown Los Angeles Photographed In 1901, And Again In 2001, Exactly 100 Years Later.
12/10/2024

Downtown Los Angeles Photographed In 1901, And Again In 2001, Exactly 100 Years Later.

View Across Central Park In NYC
12/09/2024

View Across Central Park In NYC

A family at their cabin home in West Virginia, 1900.
12/09/2024

A family at their cabin home in West Virginia, 1900.

Elf on the shelf Idea
12/09/2024

Elf on the shelf Idea

Hymson's T***s & Teens, East Main St. Lexington, Ky. 1969
12/09/2024

Hymson's T***s & Teens, East Main St. Lexington, Ky. 1969

If you understand this, then your childhood Saturdays were well spent!!!
12/08/2024

If you understand this, then your childhood Saturdays were well spent!!!

Saint Roch’s WormIn 2017, Italian researchers inspected a painting of Saint Roch. The 14th-century Frenchman was said to...
11/25/2024

Saint Roch’s Worm
In 2017, Italian researchers inspected a painting of Saint Roch. The 14th-century Frenchman was said to have cured people of the plague and then contracted it himself. He is often portrayed with a bubo, a swelling on the upper leg of plague victims.
The medieval painting was different. Saint Roch’s leg shows a wound dripping with a long white goo. In the past, the strange filament was thought to be pus, but the recent study authors are convinced that it was a worm.
The unknown painter did not use his imagination, either. This is possibly the earliest representation of a graphic parasite called Dracunculus medinensis. Also known as the Guinea worm, its larvae are ingested via infected water.
After a year’s incubation, things get horrifying. The person’s leg blisters, and a worm up to 1-meter-long (3 ft) erupts through the skin. Though not fatal, it is an excruciating experience.
No cases are known from Italy, but it’s likely that the artist saw it firsthand. Many travelers from infected countries visited Bari, where the painting still resides.
The “fiery serpents” faced by Israelites during their exodus from Egypt could have been Guinea worms. At the time, they were rife in the Middle East and victims describe a severe burning when the parasite breaks out.

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