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Pale Rider by Laura Spinney
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English - December 29, 2020 21:44 - 50 minutes - 2.97 KB - ★★ - 2 ratingsSociety & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Concluding my pandemic-themed book reading binge for the year, here’s my summary of Laura Spinney’s Pale Rider (2017), perhaps the most comprehensive popular look at the Spanish Flu, am…
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/12/29/notes-pale-rider-by-laura-spinney/
Pale RiderThe Great Influenzanow-widely-known-story of George W. Bush being inspired by itthe original threadthe Tuchman booka Katherine Anne Porter storyRichard Pfeiffer[2]The Rockefeller Institutebacteriabacterium[3]influenzavirusDr. Kilmer’s swamp rootVera KholodnayaJewish “black wedding”DillinghamWu Lien-TehRene Dujarricmodern theory is that Spanish Flu was a member of what is known as the H1N1 virus todaySmorodintsevNontetha NkwenkweOn Being ill