Everyday Miracles

On This Day In History
1979: Smallpox is declared eradicated

Quote Of The Day
"The smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the bighearted maiden objects of horror to the lover."
(T.B. Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol. IV)

We shall overcome.

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