[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.
Because they did not understand the biology of the disease, many people believed that the Black Death was a kind of divine punishmentâretribution for sins against God such as greed, blasphemy, heresy, fornication and worldliness. By this logic, the only way to overcome the plague was to win Godâs forgiveness.