CHOLERA BLUESDuring the 1831 cholera outbreak in Sunderland, England, the government enforced a quarantine on ships arriving at the local port, hitting trade. An illustration depicting the 1665 Great Plague of London. Samuel Pepys wrote about the 1665 Great Plague of London in his diary. “So home and late at my chamber, setting some papers in order; the plague growing very raging, and my apprehensions of it great,” Pepys wrote. Nietzsche once remarked that “If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.” So with history.

Source: Taipei Times May 23, 2021 15:56 UTC