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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

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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.”

4 min readOct 30, 2023

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This Six-Year-Old vs Wall $treet Week

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Heather Quinlan

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…

3 min readSep 17, 2023

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Over Thirty Years Later and I Still Love Mike Patton

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The Watcher in the Woods (1980)

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

3 min readApr 4, 2023

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The Watcher in the Woods (1980)

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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…

7 min readMar 19, 2023

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Heavy Metal Genealogy: Gary Holt Is Also Lord Rathmore

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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…

9 min readFeb 6, 2023

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

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Heather Quinlan

Death of a Cemetery

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

10 min readAug 31, 2022

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Death of a Cemetery

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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…

4 min readJun 12, 2022

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

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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…

3 min readMay 4, 2022

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Pietà

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The Heather on the Hill — Hibernia Cemetery

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

12 min readMay 3, 2022

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The Heather on the Hill — Hibernia Cemetery

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Heavy Metal Genealogy: Tawny Kitaen — From Uzbekistan to Stardom

6 min readMay 9, 2021

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Heavy Metal Genealogy: Tawny Kitaen — From Uzbekistan to Stardom

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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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