Historians have long wondered why the Black Death took hold when it did and how it spread so rapidly. The bubonic plague tore across Europe from 1347 to 1351, killing an estimated 25 million people.

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A volcano in Russia's far east on Wednesday spewed ash several kilometers into the sky, authorities said, putting on a spectacular display in its latest eruption. A series of mild eruptions at the ...

It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago. That’s about when the Beemerville Volcano erupted in Wantage, give or ...

An earlier version of this story was published in 2024. It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago. That’s about ...