AP PHOTOS: In Spanish village, horses leap through flames in centuries-old ritual
On a chilly January night, hundreds of people gathered on the steep and narrow cobblestoned streets of San Bartolome de Pinares — population 500 — to watch a dramatic sight: horses galloping ...
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From the Black Death to Spanish flu and smallpox, a brief history of plagues
Once the swellings burst, people had a fever, vomited blood, and soon died. After the devastation of the first world war came the Spanish flu. It did not actually come from Spain, but this was ...