Aviva Directory
Aviva Directory
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| Health Facts: Pandemics |
| Recently the word pandemic has been in the news. What is a pandemic? How many have there been in the world’s history? Let’s learn some hard facts about pandemics. * A pandemic is a global outbreak of an infectious disease. It can affect animals, birds and people. |
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| Legacies of Plague |
| The Black Death in the Middle ages has left behind a few legacies. Quarantine is derived from the Italian word “quaranti”, meaning “forty”. This came about after Venice decided to fight against the contamination of plague by requiring trading ships to wait a period of forty days. |
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| Fast Facts About Freshwater Shrimp |
| If you’re a shrimp fan like I am this will probably interest you. I was amazed to learn some of these little tidbits and at the least; I can look smarter at parties! |
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| The Camp Logan Mutiny |
| In 1917, shortly after the United States declared war on Imperial Germany, the War Department ordered the Third Battalion of the 24th United States Infantry Regiment, an all-black unit of the famous Buffalo Soldiers, to guard the construction site of Camp Logan in Houston, Texas. |
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