The Black Plague

was known as the Black Death, the Plague itself occured many times over many years. In 1666 when the Great Fire of London occurred it effectively killed off all the rats which spread the plague via the fleas that they carried from one place to another.

These rats came off ships from other parts of the world and the people had no immunity to it.

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The plague proved another important factor in the struggle between the British Celts and the Anglo-Saxons.


Although Bubonic Plague is normally associated with the Black Death of the middle-ages, it has actually devastated Europe on a number of occasions. One of these outbreaks began in Egypt around the year 540AD. The disease quickly spread across southern Europe, and by the year 550 had struck down the British King Maelgwn.

But, in a curious twist, the plague does not seem to have spread fully across the British Isles. While the Irish and the British Celts (modern Welsh) have folk traditions which speak of this great plague, the English (Anglo-Saxons) have no such record.

The reason for this, according to British Dark Age scholar John Morris* can be determined by looking at the trading partners of the two groups. The Anglo-Saxons did most of their trading with other Germanic tribes from northern Europe where the plague never took hold. Meanwhile, the Celts did much of their trading with southern Europe and Northern Africa, where the plague hit hardest. There is also lots of compelling evidence that the Celts and Anglo-Saxons did their best to avoid one another, and trading between the two groups was almost nonexistent. Thus, once the plague took hold among the British tribes, it never spread to the English.

Although devastating, the plague is not the sole reason that the Anglo-Saxons conquered the Celts, but it was certainly a major factor. In fact, it was only twenty years or so later that the Saxons began their next major push against the Celts, and this time, there would be no Arthur.

· Morris, John. The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650, Phoneix, 2002

http://www.britainexpress.com/History/plague.htm

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> Didn't someone somewhere do a study on the
> diminishing wages because of illegal immigrants?
> I think it was pointed out that (they broke the
> cost down somehow) they would pay a house builder
> $4.50 cents to nail one piece of plywood to the
> frame of a house. (This was in the San Franciso
> suburb areas.. it has been a while..)
> Now, thanks to Pedro, Juan, Manuel, and 40 others
> it is now down to @ $2.50? .. and probably
> continuing the downward trend?
> Their overpopulation contributes to this. They
> out-bred their job resources down south of the
> border: now they are doing it here.
> I have no real answer to this; for many it would
> sound borderline racist, but I am just citing a
> fact that I read somewhere.
> Amazing how facts can be regarded as politically
> incorrect: it is the truth but we won't accept it
> because it is racist in nature, offends the wrong
> gropus, etc.
> One thing about plagues: they are sometimes equal
> opportunity destroyers.

This comes from USBC.org: (http://usbc.org/)

The U.S. Congressional Budget Office has released a report showing that illegal aliens use more tax dollars than they pay, particularly in education, health care and law enforcement.

The study estimated that nationwide, 60 percent of illegal aliens are uninsured and 50 percent of the children are uninsured. The average income of illegals was $27,400, while Americans earned $47,800. This difference puts illegals in a lower tax bracket, reducing the amount of federal and state income tax revenue they generate.

Education is the largest single expenditure in state and local budgets, and multiple states reported 20 to 40 percent higher costs educating non-English speaking students, many of whom have illegal alien parents. In New Mexico, for example, statistics from 2004 show education spending on undocumented immigrants comprised $67 million of the state's $3 billion education budget. The study estimates there are 53.3 million school-age children in the U.S., 2 million of whom are undocumented immigrants.

Undocumented immigrants are more likely to access emergency rooms and urgent care facilities because most do not have health care, the study said. In Arizona and other border areas, states paid nearly $190 million in health care costs for undocumented immigrants in 2000. That amount, which the study says likely has risen since then, represents one-quarter of all uncompensated health care costs in those states that year.

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