Welcome to Gaia! ::

Sadly my memory is far from eidetic - my life is composed of large gaps spanning years with but a few poignant memories strewn about like leaves newly settled after an autumn gust. Still, my mind is an odd one, and I thank thee for your stance.

^ Telling random people they are wrong without any evidence is foolish, and using poor language makes it more so. Indeed, memory begins well before the age of three, with short term memory reaching near-adult levels within one year.

Try not to spout off too much. It, "makes you look like you're trying waay too hard. It's irritating and it doesn't make you look intelligent in the slightest."

An interesting note about the Black Death: The deadiest form of the plagues that ravaged Europe seems not to exist anymore.

The Black Plague was bubonic, but more than one strain of the desease was involved. Many modern cases of bubonic plague in humans have been studied, but none show the same symptoms as the form of medieval plague that could kill within 24 hours. There's plenty of medieval source material, and most of it goes into graphic, precise detail of the stages the sick went through. After reading through the texts, I suspect the most virulent form of Black Death was destroyed by its own success.

Essentially, it killed people too quickly. This didn't give it much time to spread from one host to another. In densely populated cities, this was no problem. But after it had slayed 1/3 of the population (more in some areas!), human numbers were so thinned that some neighborhoods were totally abandoned. The plague did last through several waves of infections, cropping up more at certain times of year than at others. But the swifter, more dangerous form probably died along with its last victims.