The Dancing Plague

In July 1518, residents of the city of Strasbourg (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) were struck by a sudden and seemingly uncontrollable urge to dance. The hysteria kicked off when a woman known as Frau Troffea stepped into the street and began to silently twist, twirl and shake. She kept up her solo dance-a-thon for nearly a week, and before long, some three-dozen other Strasbourgeois had joined in. By August, the dancing epidemic had claimed as many as 400 victims. With no other explanation for the phenomenon, local physicians blamed it on “hot blood” and suggested the afflicted simply gyrate the fever away. A stage was constructed and professional dancers were brought in. The town even hired a band to provide backing music, but it wasn’t long before the marathon started to take its toll. Many dancers collapsed from sheer exhaustion. Some even died from strokes and heart attacks. The strange episode didn’t end until September, when the dancers were whisked away to a mountaintop shrine to pray for absolution.

The best mummy ever: The 2,000-year-old preserved body of the Lady of Dai still has her own hair and soft skin 

Xin Zhui died in 163 BC. When they found her in 1971, her hair was intact, her skin was soft to the touch, and her veins still housed type-A blood.

Now more than 2,000 years old, Xin Zhui, also known as Lady Dai, is a mummified woman of China’s Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) who still has her own hair, is soft to the touch, and has ligaments that still bend, much like a living person. She is widely recognized as the best-preserved human mummy in history.

Xin Zhui was discovered in 1971 when workers digging near an air raid shelter near Changsha practically stumbled across her massive tomb. Her funnel-like crypt contained more than 1,000 precious artifacts, including makeup, toiletries, hundreds of pieces of lacquerware, and 162 carved wooden figures which represented her staff of servants. A meal was even laid out to be enjoyed by Xin Zhui in the afterlife.

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Wonderful thread....



SIMPlyleo come and learn something...

Tribalism won't help u.... Education will

Wonders.

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Missyajoke:
The Ancient CityThat Vanished

The story of the ruined city of Pompeii is one of the best-known examples of a city that suddenly ceased to exist. One moment it was a thriving metropolis, then an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 buried the city in volcanic ash. It was accidentally rediscovered in 1749 and excavated, revealing a time capsule of city life during the era of the Roman Empire.

This doesn't fit in this thread based on the title. Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption.

Ishilove:

This doesn't fit in this thread based on the title. Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption.

You have sense, very rare in the forum.

The explanations are literally there smh

Vyzz:
Wonderful thread....




SIMPlyleo come and learn something...


Tribalism won't help u.... Education will

Simplyleo is just a local bigoted tribalist. He think everything is about hating igbos.if only he can read and understand but he is too daft,hatred and illiteracy had eaten up his brain.i tried reasoning with him to help him.but his situation is permanent

Informative Material..

Just don't let them sell that dead Chinese woman's hair in Nigeria as human hair. Just saying.

The Re-election of Mamamadu Buhiria.
After suffering four years of intent hardship imposed by one clueless man, the citizens of country still voted him the second time under the mantra of next level.
What could be more mysterious than that?

supercase1:

Simplyleo is just a local bigoted tribalist. He think everything is about hating igbos.if only he can read and understand but he is too daft,hatred and illiteracy had eaten up his brain.i tried reasoning with him to help him.but his situation is permanent

U tried reasoning with simplyleo?...




That definitely won't work out....

Who has heard about Explorer recently?

Kenmatt:
Who has heard about Explorer recently?

He dropped something this week
Check his profile

Since I've not seen slawomir yet lemme open the floor for him.

Damm nigga is alright... Lol .mad man

Nice facts, but Pompeii's situation isn't mysterious because obviously an eruption caused it to vanish.

Thread hijacked.









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Beautiful thread. Op come and kontinuu o.

Ishilove:

This doesn't fit in this thread based on the title. Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption.

Okay, thanks I'll remove it now

I think Ive seen some these in macjebs posts.

Nice though.

Lol..

supercase1:

Simplyleo is just a local bigoted tribalist. He think everything is about hating igbos.if only he can read and understand but he is too daft,hatred and illiteracy had eaten up his brain.i tried reasoning with him to help him.but his situation is permanent

Don't mind him jare, he is always damming all the nigga.. always on every thread same as Mr Righteousness and Manna the grill man

rowland545:
Since I've not seen slawomir yet lemme open the floor for him.

Damm nigga is alright... Lol .mad man

Anuoluwa1234:
Don't mind him jare, he is always damming all the nigga.. always on every thread same as Mr Righteousness and Manna the grill man

hahahaha seriously!!! Everyday of the week he's online... Twice on Thursdays

Interesting

Why is it mysterious is what I want to know?

Very educative, topics like this is what will should be seeing in the front page not BBB and snake




Has anyone called Mr righteousness 89

The re-election of Muhammad Buhari

following closely. Nice thread

supercase1:

Simplyleo is just a local bigoted tribalist. He think everything is about hating igbos.if only he can read and understand but he is too daft,hatred and illiteracy had eaten up his brain.i tried reasoning with him to help him.but his situation is permanent

Simplyleo has really tormented this one.
Even on this thread you still manage to bring up his name.