July 15, 2006
Gratuitous Conquistadore Posting
Scribal Terror links to an article suggesting that the plague which wiped out the Aztec Empire at the time of Cortez's landing might not have been the smallpox or typhus generally assumed to have been imported by the Spaniards, but in fact a native virus unleashed by the particular climate conditions in Mexico at the time.
Interesting.
I'm sure the record heat and drought that the article argues facilitated the virus's outbreak is Dubya's fault somehow or other.
Comments
When we're all bleeding from the ears, we'll be sorry we didn't sign Kyoto.
Posted by: gail at July 15, 2006 07:02 PMHey, if you spend enough time ripping the beating hearts out of sacrifices with an obsidian knife you're bound to catch something.
Posted by: mojo at July 16, 2006 01:00 PM
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