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History is dotted with epidemics and plagues, but a certain number of them stand out as unique for their severity and impact on future generations. This is a list of the worst plagues in man’s recorded history. 10- Moscow Plague and Riot 1771 The first signs of plague in Moscow appeared in late 1770, which would turn into a major epidemic in the spring of 1771. The measures undertaken by the authorities, such as creation of forced quarantines, destruction of contaminated property without compensation or control, closing of public baths, etc., caused fear and anger among the citizens. The city’s economy was mostly paralyzed because many factories, markets, stores, and administrative buildings had been closed down. All of this was followed by acute food shortages, causing deterioration of living conditions for the majority of the Muscovites. Dvoryane (Russian nobility) and well-off city dwellers left Moscow due to the plague outbreak. On the morning of September 17, 1771, around...

10- The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God The followers of the Ugandan doomsday cult The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God believed that the apocalypse would occur in the year 2000. They fiercely kept the Ten Commandments and supposedly preached the the word of Jesus. The group so feared damnation for accidentally breaking the ninth commandment, to not bear false witness, that they spoke little and used only sign language on some days. Sex was forbidden, soap was forbidden and only one meal consumed Fridays and Mondays. The group was a break-away Catholic cult that found its origins with Paulo Kashaku, who claimed to have divinely inspired visions. His daughter Credonia Mwerinde (inset) claimed to have similar visions. She, along with Joseph Kibweteere and Bee Tait founded the group in 1980. Though the group had broken with the Catholic Church, it attracted many defrocked priests and nuns, who were given positions of author...

No woman will ever say “I have enough bags, I do not need any more.” Women can never have enough handbags. Fashion bags in India and abroad are absolutely in rage. Fashion handbags are available in a wide spectrum of colors, designs and brands. Let’s have a look at the Top 10 Expensive Women Handbags in the World. 10- MOUAWAD This company is more popular in creating master art pieces in jewelries and fashion accessories including the best designer handbags a woman could ever dream to buy. This company was established in 1891 and its headquarters is set-up in Geneva, Middle East and Dubai. The Mouawad 1001 Nights Diamond Purse, which is made up of 18 karat gold and encrusted with more than 4,500 diamonds ranks second in our edition. This bejeweled purse, which is just one of the most expensive and best designer handbags that the brand makes, costs $3.8 million, thereby earning a place in Guinness World Records in 2010 for being the most valuable handbag in the world. 9- CHANEL C...

Sure it’s great to have a nice hearty meal, but what’s a nice meal without the perfect dessert to end the night? There’s nothing better than being able to enjoy something sweet and tasty: cake, cookies, pie, pudding, or anything else- as long as it has sugar in it. When you indulge in sweet desserts, you might worry about a costly dental bill in your future… but, how about the price of the dessert itself? There aren’t many people who can afford to, or who would want to, spend thousands of dollars on a dessert. However, if you are insanely rich (or just insane?), here is a list of ten desserts you should order. The rest of us will sit here watering out of our mouths and eyes from the hefty price tags. Who’d have ever thought a sweet tooth could be so expensive: 10. Noka Chocolate, Vintage Collection $854 per pound Probably the simplest dessert on the list, the Vintage Collection provided by Noka Chooclate comes in at an expensive $854 per pound. The chocolate that is sold by thi...

The world is a very strange place indeed. There is no telling what lurks behind picket fences. Below are some of the very strangest locales across the globe, from a city mired in garbage to a community of retired circus freaks. 10- Manshiyat Naser, Egypt Garbage City In the suburbs of America, people prowl neighborhoods on bulk collection day, picking up cast-off furniture and the like to flip for a profit. Sanitation workers, who develop a keen eye for this sort of thing over the course of their careers, call the valuable trinkets they manage to salvage “mongo.” But nowhere in the world is garbage as important a part of the economy as Manshiyat Naser, a ward of Cairo. The people of Manshiyat Naser scrape together a life processing the trash of Cairo’s 10 million residents. It is a hard life: There is no running water, sewers, or electricity, and every spare inch of space is packed with towers of garbage. Those pigs that weren’t slaughtered during the 2009 swine flu scareroot aro...