[1] Michael Long presents a comprehensive and persuasive account of the function and meaning of the dice in âSymbol and Ritual in Josquinâs Missa di Dadiâ, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol.42, No.1.
On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia, was discovered brutally murdered in a vacant lot near the intersection of 39th Street and Norton Avenue in South Los Angeles, according to TruTV.
In November 1347 a Genoese ship returning from the Black Sea called at Naples on its route home. It brought the pestilence or great mortality to Europe. The disease - later called the Black Death (because of the dark patches on the skin caused by subcutaneous bleeding) was probably Bubonic Plague. Bubonic plague is carried by black rats, and spread to humans by the fleas that infest them. Human carriers could themselves pass on the infection through contact or the air.