During the Black Death in Europe, people believed that carrying a ball of ambergris could help prevent them from getting the plague.

Plate armour became cheaper than mail by the 15th century as it required much less labour and labour had become much more expensive after the Black Death, though it did require larger furnaces to produce larger blooms.

Prior to the bubonic plague epidemic known as the Black Death, Mongol and Turkish armies were reported to have catapulted disease-laden corpses into besieged cities.

The weaponized threat comes mainly in the form of pneumonic plague ( infection by inhalation ) It was the disease that caused the Black Death in Medieval Europe.

Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible ( 1411 )

The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350.

Although there were several competing theories as to the etiology of the Black Death, recent analysis of DNA from victims in northern and southern Europe indicates that the pathogen responsible was the Yersinia pestis bacterium, which causes the Bubonic plague, although these were different, previously unknown ancestral variants of those identified in the 20th century.

The Black Death is thought to have started in China or central Asia, before spreading west.

Spreading throughout the Mediterranean and Europe, the Black Death is estimated to have killed 30 – 60 percent of Europe's population.

Inspired by the Black Death, The Dance of Death, an allegory on the universality of death, is a common painting motif in the late medieval period.

After 750, major epidemic diseases did not appear again in Europe until the Black Death of the 14th century.

The Black Death originated in or near China and spread by way of the Silk Road or by ship.

The 14th-century eruption of the Black Death had a drastic effect on Europe's population, irrevocably changing the social structure.

The work was translated into English the following year, and with the cholera epidemic happening at that time, " The Black Death in the 14th century " gained widespread attention and the terms Schwarzer Tod and Black Death became more widely used in the German-and English-speaking worlds, respectively.

Whether or not this hypothesis is accurate, it is clear that several existing conditions such as war, famine, and weather contributed to the severity of the Black Death.

In Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt ( 2002 ), Bayonne is the first city recolonized by the Muslims after the total depopulation of Europe by the Black Death.

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.

Unification or Death (), unofficially known as the Black Hand ( Црна рука, Crna ruka ), was a secret military society formed by members of the Serbian army in the Kingdom of Serbia, which was founded on 6 September 1901.

The Black Hand was formed when ten men met on 9 May 1911 to form Ujedinjenje ili Smrt ( Unification or Death ), better known as the Black Hand.

Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;

Another spot with an image-provoking name is the Black Hills where you can visit the old frontier mining town of Deadwood.

The Black Hills Passion Play is produced every summer and is a pageant worth seeing and shooting.

Wound-tumor virus is a leafhopper transmitted virus not easily transmissible by mechanical inoculation ( Black, 1944 ; ;

Mr. Justice Black no doubt concurs in principle but is more apt to make exceptions to achieve a generous and `` just '' result.

`` Black is Gilborn's best friend ''.

Black and white is her favorite color combination along with lively glowing pinks, reds, blues and greens.

Such is the case with the Black Sea invasion of the natural hybrid Pelophylax esculentus reported in 2010.

It is a peninsula bound by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to the north-east, the Armenian Highland to the east, Mesopotamia to the south-east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west.

In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus.

The physical oceanography of the Aegean Sea is controlled mainly by the regional climate, the fresh water discharge from major rivers draining southeastern Europe, and the seasonal variations in the Black Sea surface water outflow through the Dardanelles Strait.

The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.

Traditionally, Anatolia is considered to extend in the east to a line between the Gulf of Iskenderun and the Black Sea, approximately corresponding to the western two-thirds of the Asian part of Turkey.

The Anatolian peninsula, also called Asia Minor, is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Sea of Marmara to the northwest, which separates Anatolia from Thrace in Europe.

Traditionally, Anatolia is considered to extend in the east to an indefinite line running from the Gulf of Iskenderun to the Black Sea, coterminous with the Anatolian Plateau.

The Black Sea coast is characterized by a range of steep mountains that extend along the entire length of the coast, separating it from the inland Anatolian plateau.

The Bosphorus, which links the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea, is about long and averages in width but narrows in places to less than.

True lowland is confined to a few narrow coastal strips along the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Black Sea coasts.

Analog Brothers is an experimental hip-hop crew featuring Ice Oscillator also known as Ice-T ( keyboards, drums, vocals ), Keith Korg also known as Kool Keith ( bass, strings, vocals ), Mark Moog also known as Marc Live ( drums, violyns and vocals ), Silver Synth also known as Black Silver ( synthesizer, lazar bell and vocals ), and Rex Roland also known as Pimp Rex ( keyboards, vocals, production ).

Black arsenic is similar in structure to red phosphorus.

Black antimony is formed upon rapid cooling of vapor derived from metallic antimony.

* 1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.

* 1966 – The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California.