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Oct. 7—GRAND FORKS — A movie about the Spanish flu, "Influenza 1918," will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9, at the Empire Arts Center, 415 DeMers. Admission is free. Presented in conjunction with ...
In April 1918, a disease of unknown origin swept across the five continents. In 18 months, millions of lives that had not been taken by the war were swept away by a virus that would cause the worst ...
The 1918 Flu Pandemic: Trench Fever - The flu arrived in France. It found a pleasant home in the crowded wartime trenches, much to the dismay of the Allies who tried to keep the flu a secret. When it ...
The event, which runs alongside the Venice Film Festival, will open with the world premiere of Tommaso Santambrogio's Cuba-set drama 'Oceans are the Real Continents.' By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent ...
Since early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged both across the U.S. and the world, various photographs of masks worn during the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic were shared online, as we noted with ...
You are going down with what seems like a particularly nasty strain of seasonal flu that's going around and you end up being hospitalized for a few weeks.. How do you survive? In this episode of How ...
MATOACA — The late Henry Munt Partin, an orphan who grew up in Matoaca, reached out to Santa Claus 105 years ago. Colonial Heights native Chris Barham of Rodanthe, North Carolina came across the ...
My grandfather, Walter Kirschner, was born in Philadelphia in 1910, the sixth of eight children. His wife, my grandmother Rebekah, was also born in Philadelphia, in 1907; she was one of 10 children.