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Is your current health a predictor of your future health? Does what you eat today affect how healthy you’ll be tomorrow? Listen and explore the mystery of Frank Clemow’s claim that the 1891 Russian famine did not largely affect the 1892 cholera…

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Industrial towns and intermodal transportation were intrinsically linked by waterways and railways which carried the disease and, subsequently, a fog of chaos and fear. We will start our historical voyage at the border of Persia and Russia and…

A comma-delimited spreadsheet with the information of monasteries found ed in 19th century Russia around the cholera outbreaks.

This set of two maps, drawn up in 1878, shows in great detail the presence of different ethnicities in Russia, both north and south. These ethnicities are shown by color, and in the legend are grouped according to larger ethnic groups. For example,…