John Wycliffe, the First to Translate the Entire Bible into English, Dies
Wycliffe had been born in the hinterlands, on a sheep farm 200 miles from London. He left for Oxford University in 1346, but because of …
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Europe’s Black Death Kills 50 to 75 Million People
Every child learns at school that the Black Death was spread by rats which carried infected fleas. But the textbooks may need to be changed, …