By his adult years, the mysterious " Green Plague " was killing Kryptonians by the hundreds, and upon researching the matter, Jor-El discovered that the cause was growing radiation produced by Krypton's increasingly unstable core.

Generally, reapers are assigned to a division based upon their own cause of death ; Mason tells George in a deleted scene that most of the members of the Plague Division died because of the Plague.

This fast commemorates the salvation of the Israelite firstborns during the Plague of the Firstborn ( according to the Book of Exodus, the tenth of the ten plagues wrought upon Ancient Egypt prior to the Exodus of the Children of Israel ), when, according to Exodus ( 12: 29 ): "... God struck every firstborn in the Land of Mitzrayim ( Ancient Egypt )...."

In an early passage of A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe mentions " merry andrews " while describing the effects of the plague on London society: " All the plays and interludes which, after the manner of the French Court, had been set up, and began to increase among us, were forbid to act ; the gaming-tables, public dancing-rooms, and music-houses, which multiplied and began to debauch the manners of the people, were shut up and suppressed ; and the jack-puddings, merry-andrews, puppet-shows, rope-dancers, and such-like doings, which had bewitched the poor common people, shut up their shops, finding indeed no trade ; for the minds of the people were agitated with other things, and a kind of sadness and horror at these things sat upon the countenances even of the common people.

Eyam Museum opened in 1994, including exhibits on local history in general and the 1665 Plague in particular.

Eyam: Plague Village by David Paul, published by Amberley, 2012

* Plague at Eyam, a script for young adults published by the Association of Science Education, 2010

* The Plague of Eyam by Ivor Hodgson, 2010 ; overture performed on BBC radio, March 2010

* Eyam Plague Village website

Eyam Museum in the village of Eyam in the Peak District, Derbyshire, has a special emphasis on the Plague as it struck Eyam.

( Accessed 9 March 2008 ), < http :// www. grovemusic. com > ( Subscription required ).</ ref > Although his abilities as an orchestrator, too, have been disparaged ( notably by his compatriot Rimsky-Korsakov ), some recent recordings ( e. g., of his one-act opera Feast in Time of Plague, from Pushkin ) suggest that Cui's dramatic music might be more interesting to pursue with regard to this feature.

Korndorf completed post-graduate studies in 1973 with his opera Feast in the Time of Plague after Alexander Pushkin.

* Feast in the Time of Plague one act opera after Alexander Pushkin ( 1972 )

Shortly before his birth, his mother had to move from Milan to Pavia to escape the Plague ; her three other children died from the disease.

All three forms are widely believed to have been responsible for a number of high-mortality epidemics throughout human history, including the Plague of Justinian in 542 and the Black Death that accounted for the death of at least one-third of the European population between 1347 and 1353.

This voyage – the first after his return from Padua – lasted three years, taking Harvey through the countries of France and Spain during the Mantuan War and Plague.

MacDonald also published three other semi-autobiographical books: Anybody Can Do Anything, recounting her life in the Depression trying to find work ; The Plague and I, describing her nine-month stay at the Firlands tuberculosis sanitarium ; and Onions in the Stew, about her life on Vashon Island with her second husband and daughters during the war years.

In addition to Rube's " external influence " team, the three other divisions mentioned in the series are Circulatory Systems Division, the very uneventful and bored reapers of the Plague Division ( who spend much of their time playing bocce ball ) and the Natural Causes ( Old Age ) Division mentioned in the 27th and 28th episodes ( according to the running order ).

His wife was Ronica Carrock and together they had two daughters, Keffria and Althea, along with three boys who died in the Blood Plague that presumedly was carried down from the Rain Wild River.

After the Blood Plague killed the three Vestrit sons in their youth, Ephron Vestrit saw fit to make Althea the heir to his liveship Vivacia.

The first three limited series, reprinted in the collected editions Biohazards, Dangerous Acquaintances, and Plague of Angels, were published by the since-defunct Eclipse Comics.

The moral quality of his actions is intensified by the fact that D ' Arrast has deep insight into the absurdity of the world but acts morally nevertheless ( not unlike the main character in The Plague ).

; Bubonic plague: Plague is a disease caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium.

Plague is a deadly infectious disease that is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis, named after the French-Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin.

Other names have been used to describe this disease, such as " The Black Plague " and " The Black Death "; the latter is now used primarily by scholars to describe the second, and most devastating, pandemic of the disease.

However, the social fabric of Constantinople was also damaged by the onset of Plague of Justinian between 541 – 542 AD.

In Defoe's early life he experienced first-hand some of the most unusual occurrences in English history: in 1665, 70, 000 were killed by the Great Plague of London.

Although some physical events such as the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London continued to encourage belief in " the end of the world " ruled by carnal human beings ; the doctrine of the sect either died out, or became merged in a milder form of Millenarianism.

* History of the Plague in England by Daniel Defoe

Primitive respirator examples were used by miners and introduced by Alexander von Humboldt already in 1799, when he worked as a mining engineer in Prussia ; long before that there was a Plague doctor's bird beak shaped mask / face piece filled with herbs.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

The regulation of labor by the State as one of its functions dates from the 15th century, when the Black Plague killed around half of the European population.

" () commands, in reference to God's sparing of the firstborn from the Tenth Plague: And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the lord ; throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

Already weakened by the Slavic invasions at the end of the 6th century, which ruined the agrarian economy of Macedonia and probably also by the Plague of Justinian in 547, the city was almost totally destroyed by an earthquake around 619, from which it never recovered.

Two of his most successful paintings, Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa ( 1804 ) and Battle of Abukir ( 1806 ) focus on the Emperor, as he was by then, but include many Egyptian figures, as does the less effective Napoleon at the Battle of the Pyramids ( 1810 ).

Plague broke out in the barbarian host and their food ran short, and at the same time troops arrived from the east, sent by Marcian to the aid of Italy.

In order to suppress the epidemic and prevent its spread, it was decided to take drastic action, accordingly a Special Plague Committee, with jurisdiction over Pune city, its suburbs and Pune cantonment was appointed under the Chairmanship of W. C. Rand, I. C. S., Assistant Collector of Pune by way of a government order dated 8 March 1897.

During the second year of the Peloponnesian War ( 430 BC ), the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece was hit by a devastating epidemic, known as the Plague of Athens, which killed, among others, Pericles and his two elder sons.

** The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich

These include The Reivers by William Faulkner ( 1962 ), September, September by Shelby Foote ( 1977 ), The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor ( 1985 ), the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor ( 1986 ), The Firm ( 1991 ) and The Client ( 1993 ), both by John Grisham, Memphis Afternoons: a Memoir by James Conaway ( 1993 ), " Plague of Dreamers " by Steve Stern ( 1997 ) Cassina Gambrel Was Missing by William Watkins ( 1999 ), The Guardian by Beecher Smith ( 1999 ), " We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon " by Corey Mesler ( 2005 ), The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, and The Architect by James Williamson ( 2007 ).

* John Gilling-writer and director of Shadow of the Cat ( 1961 ), The Plague of the Zombies ( 1966 ), The Reptile ( 1966 ) and The Mummy's Shroud

In 1990 Galás performed at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York, the recording of which was released in 1991 as Plague Mass, in which she criticized the Roman Catholic Church for its indifference to AIDS.

During the Great Plague of London in 1665, John Milton retired to Chalfont St Giles, which is where he completed his epic poem Paradise Lost.

* John Warnaby in Nicholas de Jongh's stage play, Plague Over England ( London, 2009 )

They resolve to evacuate Resurgam by enlisting the aide of the rebel Thorn who has been attempting to evacuate Resurgam all along, by open communications with Captain John Brannigan who is in direct control of their ship due to the nanotechnological Melding Plague, and by enabling the Cache Weapons as a last resort against the Inhibitors.

The Seventh Plague of Egypt, engraving after John Martin

Under Orlando's stewardship, the series won a good deal of recognition in the comics industry, including the Shazam Award for Best Individual Short Story ( Dramatic ) in 1972 for " The Demon Within " in # 201 by John Albano and Jim Aparo, and the Shazam Award for Best Humor Story in 1972 for " The Poster Plague " by Steve Skeates and Sergio Aragonés.

* John Aberth, From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, Plague, War and Death In the Later Middle Ages, 2000, ISBN 0415927153 — Chapter 1, dealing with the Great Famine, is available online.

Among other architectonic sights, there is a Plague Column with the sculpture of Virgin Mary, erected in 1714 by an unknown author, a Baroque church of St. John of Nepomuk, Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul and the Church of St. Constantine and Method.

The Plague of the Zombies ( 1966 ) Hammer Horror film directed by John Gilling.

John Martin ( painter ) | John Martin's Plagues of Egypt | Seventh Plague of Egypt ( 1828 ) set the Biblical plague in Hellenistic Alexandria.

, Simon Vinnicombe's Year 10, Joy Wilkinson's Fair which transferred to the West End ; Waterloo Day with Robert Lang ; Sarah Phelps ’ Modern Dance for Beginners, subsequently produced at the Soho Theatre ; Carolyn Scott-Jeffs ' comedy Out in the Garden, which transferred to the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh ; the London premiere of Larry Kramer's The Destiny of Me ; The Women ’ s War – an evening of original suffragette plays ; Steve Hennessy ’ s Lullabies of Broadmoor ( about the Finborough Road murder of 1922 ); the Victorian era comedy Masks and Faces ; Etta Jenks with Clarke Peters and Daniela Nardini ; The Gigli Concert with Niall Buggy, Catherine Cusack and Paul McGann which transferred to the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh ); Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams with Linda Bassett, Albert's Boy by James Graham starring Victor Spinetti, Peter Oswald ’ s Lucifer Saved with Mark Rylance, Blackwater Angel, the UK debut of Irish playwright Jim Nolan with Sean Campion, the first London revival for over seventy years of Loyalties by John Galsworthy, the world premiere of Plague Over England by Nicholas de Jongh which subsequently transferred to the West End at the Duchess Theatre, the first revival of Hangover Square, adapted by Fidelis Morgan from the novel by Patrick Hamilton, the UK premiere of the musical Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon and a season of plays by William Saroyan.

* John Piper in the House of Death, after Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, Central School of Speech and Drama ( 1991 )