“In the middle of the cemetery is a grassy plane, strangely vacant. There are no granite tombs or crumbling concrete, just a… — Molly Caldwell Crosby Copy Share Image
“There are, Jefferson said, two classes of “disputants” that are especially common. The “first is . . . young students . .… — Davidson Butler Copy Share Image
“Death was a constant fact of life. The reaper struck with fire and drowning; typhus, malaria, yellow fever, and a host of… — Barbara Weisberg Copy Share Image
“Day an' night they set in a room with a checker-board on th' end iv a flour bar'l, an' study problems iv… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“Born John Paul in Arbigland, Scotland on July 6, 1747, he started his seagoing career as an apprentice aboard the sail ship… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“Daisy offered a mosquito which bit you and gave you yellow fever. 'You turn as yellow as a lemon and then you… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever by walking to the bank at Greenwich to get the money to… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
“With the first rays of dawn coming from a huge orange sun, rising out of the Indian Ocean from the East, the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow… — Molly Caldwell Crosby Copy Share Image
“Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is… — John Green Copy Share Image
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see… — John Green Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue fever and yellow fever, has traditionally been unable to survive at altitudes higher than 1,000… — Ross Gelbspan Copy Share Image
“If you go to the Rijksmuseum, which I really wanted to do- but who are we kidding, neither of us can walk… — John Green Copy Share Image
Yellow fever outbreaks are not uncommon. But, as with other infectious diseases, when they occur in urban areas, they can play out… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
