The Plague Cliff Notes

This book tackles the difficult challenge of uncovering the pathogenic cause, epidemiological mechanics and broader historical impacts of an extremely deadly third-century ancient Roman pandemic. The core of this research is embodied in a novel systems synthesis methodology that allows for ground-breaking historical-scientific problem-solving. Through precise historical and scientific problem-solving, analysis and modelling, the authors piece together a holistic puzzle portrait of an ancient plague that is fully consistent, in turn, with both the surviving ancient evidence and the latest in cutting edge twenty-first-century modern medical and molecular phylogenetic science. Demonstrating the broader relevance of the crisis-beset world of the third-century Roman Empire in providing guiding and cautionary historical lessons for the present, this innovative book provides fascinating insights for students and scholars across a range of disciplines.

Cliff Richard's fiftieth anniversary celebrations saw some remarkable releases brought together, although this one was surely one of the least interesting despite its title holding out a lot of promise. Collectors and fans, after all, will already have gathered together the majority of Richard's Extended Play material across a wealth of other discs, not least of all the See for Miles EP compilations in the early '90s. This package is very much a poor echo of those sets, all the more so since anybody drawn in by the promise of material from 1991 will be disappointed to find the set petering out into Christmas songs and show tunes at the expense of far more deserving material from the other end of the chronological span. A handful of oddities do include an alternate take of "It's Wonderful to Be Young," and the lesser fabled English-language versions of "Frenesi" and "Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps." But the overall mood is largely disposable, and Richard continues to await a full examination of his complete EP catalog.

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Before Cliff and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music John Lennon In a career that has spanned over 50 years and over 250 million records sold, Sir Cliff Richard has topped the charts in every decade since the 1950s. Looking back, it can be easy to forget just how Cliff Richard started out: as a rebellious rock and roll singer, an 18-year-old with natural star power. Cliff's charisma was clear for all to see, but when he teamed up with The Shadows for his first number one single, true magic was born The Shadows provided such effective and dynamic musical accompaniment that they went on to forge a successful career independent of Cliff Richard. Hank Marvin s trademark tremolo sound went on to influence a generation of guitarists in the same way that Cliff drove singers such as John Lennon to take to the stage.