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Ring a ring a roses...
Bush Tucker Man:
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--- Quote from: "Bush Tucker Man" ---Sorry, thought you were going to ask where the 'Ring a Rosies' nursury rhyme originated :wink:
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Plague :P
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That's the one
Bubonic Plague
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_around_the_rosey
The flowers were used to try & purify the air around an infected person, as it was believed that the smell was part of the problem
Which has parrallels with the Typhoid/Cholera epidemics of the mid-1800's that led to Joseph Bazalgette designing the London sewerage system
(& also saw Doctor John Snow founding the science of Epidemiology)
neil2860:
Another good crcuit is this one
La mas du clos , just google it
then some where to stay while your there
http://www.laroserouge.com/
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