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Considering how many people have watched Twilight dewsgirl Feb 2018 #1
one of the reasons that flu pandemic was so bad is because many people were demigoddess Feb 2018 #2
The war. All those soldiers in close quarters with poor nutrition. nt Laffy Kat Feb 2018 #7
Also many families had rudimentary (at best) medical help. Archae Feb 2018 #11
There were at least two bestselling books and (how many?) TV documentaries on that subject. eppur_se_muova Feb 2018 #3
I guess they don't watch enough TV. nt raccoon Feb 2018 #4
I guess they never watched marybourg Feb 2018 #5
Even Downton Abbey! Tanuki Feb 2018 #8
The Flu strain in the pandemic of 1918 yellerpup Feb 2018 #6
My elderly GG Grandparents died in that pandemic. PADemD Feb 2018 #9
What a wonderful thing to know yellerpup Feb 2018 #13
Commonly known as Spanish flu. OnDoutside Feb 2018 #10
I know, I've tried explaining how people were usually dead in 3 days..... Historic NY Feb 2018 #12
I know it is mentioned in history books Ilsa Feb 2018 #14
recently I read that doctors still bled patients as a treatment well into demigoddess Feb 2018 #21
My Grandfather's Parents.... Laxman Feb 2018 #15
My grandfather was put in an orphanage xmas74 Feb 2018 #20
It became real to me reading the gravestones in small rural IA churchyards. So many children d 1918! bobbieinok Feb 2018 #16
I still remember one old gravestone from 1918 in my home town womanofthehills Feb 2018 #18
my older family used to talk about this they have been in Chicago a long time lunasun Feb 2018 #17
My great grandmother was xmas74 Feb 2018 #19
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