Oh and I forgot to mention. I live above a dance studio and across the street from a karaoke bar. Silence does not exist.
Sitting in class is a talent I do not have. The pull our arm rest connected the the chairs are the size of a slice of bread. They are al bent so if we don't pay attention our books slip of and spill all over the floor. About once every five minutes someone slaps their hand to the books to try and keep them from falling. It is impossible to sleep leaning on them. They will snap forward and everyone will stare at you.
In Italy Subways are rare to find because whenever they try to dig and make one they discover an ancient city.
The Bubonic Plague wiped out more than two thirds of the population in Europe starting in 1347. It started when the Genoese were over in the East near China. They were trading there and got in a fight with the Mongols but the Mongols couldn't get around the Genoese walls so when their people started getting sick and dying they catapulted the infected corpses over the walls of the city. Hundreds of rotting corpses in city walls do not smell good. The Genoese tried to burn the bodies but that just made it worse, they gave up and sailed back to Italy.
On the way back some of them became sick as well. Genoa is one of the main port cities in Europe and the disease quickly spread. Rats were the main carrier of the disease and their fleas are what spread it to humans. It affected a persons gland areas first, neck, armpits, etch then spread. Portions of skin would die and a boil would form. Most infected people died within two or three weeks.
This is before the Pheumonic and Septicemic Plauge. That killed a person in just two to three days. It was spread more easily, threw the air. Pheumonic affected the lungs and the septicemic affected the other organs.
The 100 years war was actually 114 years. Joan of Arc was a major player in helping the French get their land back from the English. The French were getting dominated when this young peasant girl made here way to the King of France. He heard she was coming and that God was with her and he wanted to see if she was legit. So before she arrived he swapped clothes with a noble man, put the crown on him and let him sit in his thrown while he hid in the crowd. When she arrived she walked up to the "King" started to bow and then stopped. She looked around and saw the true king in the crowd, walked over to him, knelt and kissed his hand. This is amazing because she could not have know what the King could have looked like. She said she knew because St. Micheal was standing next to him. St. Micheal and St. Catherine were the spirit saints who traveled and talked with Joan.
The king believed her. She fought in battles. In the Battle of Orleon she was shot in the shoulder with an arrow and knocked off her horse. She pulled the arrow out, got back on her horse and lead the attack. It was a huge victory for her and the French.
She began gaining a lot of popularity and began getting a little full of her self. She was as popular as the French King. This got her captured by the Duke of Burgendy who turned her over to the English. The English put up a ransom for her but the French King didn't care. They told him they would kill her, but he still didn't care. He wanted to be rid of her because she was taking away his popularity.
The English put her on trial and asked her the trick question "are you in God's Grace?" If she were to say yes she would be admitting to be able to speak with God and be burned. If she said no she would be convicted of a heretic and burned. So when she answered "If I'm not may he put me there." the English didn't know what to do.
They ended up convicting her of Heresy for dressing like a man. She did this when she was in jail for fear of being raped.
She was burned at the stake. She was only 19 years old...
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