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Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19

Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19

Pandemics can come in waves―like tidal waves. They change societies. They disrupt life. They end lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example, but history shows that life continues.

2020

Heather E. Quinlan

Heather E. Quinlan

Stories

This Six-Year-Old vs Wall $treet Week

In the days when a house only one TV, there was room for only one show at 4pm. And it wasn’t “Little House on the Prairie.”

Oct 30, 2023

This Six-Year-Old vs Wall $treet Week

Oct 30, 2023

Over Thirty Years Later and I Still Love Mike Patton

I had crushes all the time. My first was John Travolta/Danny Zuko in Grease. I made my dad take me to see it twice. When Olivia…

Sep 17, 2023

Over Thirty Years Later and I Still Love Mike Patton

Sep 17, 2023

The Watcher in the Woods (1980)

Disney’s First Stab at Horror Left Children Roaring with Laughter

Apr 4, 2023

The Watcher in the Woods (1980)

Apr 4, 2023

Heavy Metal Genealogy: Gary Holt Is Also Lord Rathmore

The metal mega-superstars of the post-Maiden era had their own personas. (I’m not writing personae.) Metallica was the big brother, Anthrax…

Mar 19, 2023

Heavy Metal Genealogy: Gary Holt Is Also Lord Rathmore

Mar 19, 2023

Heavy Metal Genealogy: Zakk Wylde’s Family Story Is Wild (& also heartbreaking)

For this edition of Heavy Metal Genealogy I chose Zakk Wylde because he played guitar for Ozzy and is from New Jersey and what other…

Feb 6, 2023

Heavy Metal Genealogy: Zakk Wylde’s Family Story Is Wild (& also heartbreaking)

Feb 6, 2023

Death of a Cemetery

How an African-American Burial Ground in New York Became a Strip Mall

Aug 31, 2022

Death of a Cemetery

Aug 31, 2022

Heavy Metal Genealogy: Mike Patton Part 2 — Mistakes Were Made

Previously on Heavy Metal Genealogy, I announced to the world that Mike Patton was Finnish. This announcement was even used to throw egg…

Jun 12, 2022

Heavy Metal Genealogy: Mike Patton Part 2 — Mistakes Were Made

Jun 12, 2022

Pietà

My grandmother had a Pietà in her bookcase shelf, the Madonna holding the body of her broken child. It probably cost very little, yet…

May 4, 2022

Pietà

May 4, 2022

The Heather on the Hill — Hibernia Cemetery

(Yes that’s Scottish but there was a cemetery. And a Heather!)

May 3, 2022

The Heather on the Hill — Hibernia Cemetery

May 3, 2022

Heavy Metal Genealogy: Tawny Kitaen — From Uzbekistan to Stardom

May 9, 2021

Heavy Metal Genealogy: Tawny Kitaen — From Uzbekistan to Stardom

May 9, 2021

Heather Quinlan

Heather Quinlan

Book Author

I write about making movies, watching movies, heavy metal family trees, cemeteries, death, books, and whatever else I can fit on this fongool bio.

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