RESOUNDING ECHOES with Robert McCarney

What's in a name?

Hello, good afternoon, and welcome to 'What's in a name?', today's episode of Resounding Echoes. Gustav Klimt, Max Weber, Egon Schiele, Guillaume Apollinaire and the composer of our first piece of music today are just some of the more famous names among the countless millions who died in possibly humanity's greatest ever pandemic, known as the Spanish Flu, and as was the case with the First World War, a disproportionate percentage of this killer's victims were young men in their prime. This particular strain of influenza virus was no more Spanish than Syphillis was English or Corona Chinese ...

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Resounding Echoes: What's in a name?

Copyright © 15 September 2024 Robert McCarney,
León, Spain

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