Faithfulness and fraudulence
Dogs who remain faithful to their masters and mistresses after their deaths have plenty of aah factor, always have done. Take Hachiko the Akita (pictured above), for example. Every day he would meet his owner, Professor Ueno, off the Tokyo train. One day, Prof Ueno died at work. Unable to take it in, Hachiko padded […]
From consumption to diabetes – changing causes of death in New England
Posted by Vale Back in 1812 in Boston it was consumption that was most likely to kill you, although out of 942 recorded deaths, teething killed 15 and childbed 14, the same number that were killed by the quinsy. In 1900 tuberculosis was near the top of the list, but pneumonia or influenza had overtaken […]
