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Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 21, 2015
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Transcript:
The 4 oz. Blackpoll Warbler songbird can fly 1700 miles nonstop from New England to South America! The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people than the total number of soldiers killed in World War I. Baa baa humbug! A lamb was born to farmer Blassius Lavrentiev in Dagestan, Russia, with a face resembling an angry old man!
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Templo S.U.D. almost 10 years ago
Only three more years until the epidemic’s centennial.
Space_cat almost 10 years ago
Sounds like an angry old man might be the lambs father!
Bill The Nuke almost 10 years ago
But can the warbler carry a coconut?
sarazan7 almost 10 years ago
What countries where affected by the epidemic?
CeeJay almost 10 years ago
Not only did the soldiers bring the flu with them, but many of them also died from the flu after surviving the horrors of WWI.
Paul Swearingen almost 10 years ago
The flu epidemic killed more than all the wars the USA has been involved in, plus all black plague deaths – possibly up to 100 million in all.
pam Miner almost 10 years ago
This is in Russia, so it may be close enough to Chernobyl to be caused by radiation.If so it IS a portent of bad things to come. Fukushima was at least 10 to 50 times more toxic and will cause mutations well beyond Japan. I feel so sorry for anyone who lives there and in Korea, China, Hongkong annd it’s even killing off fish here on the west coast.Indeed a Bad Portent.
IQTech61 almost 10 years ago
New research shows that many who died during the 1918 pandemic actually died of aspirin poisoning, not the flu:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/health/13aspirin.html?_r=0
Angry Indeed Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Not angry, just terribly opinionated. :)