Plague, Fire, and Greenwich

DISASTER:
Impact of the plague on London was devastating. In 1665, a hundred thousand people have died from the plague. What terrified the people was the rate and speed that the plague hit. The victim would die within days after conducting the disease. Despite the theories the people believe how they conducted the disease; it was accually transferred by rats that had fleas contaminated by bacillus. At that time rats were plentiful, and in the heat plague bacillus thrived.
Dr. John Snow created Ghost Maps that marked deaths in London in 1832. Snow then linked the deaths to the water source for the quantity of deaths around the pump. At the John Snow pub is where the contaminated pump is located and is marked by a red granite stone.
The Great Fire of London in 1666 left an impact on the people. The Monument was designed by Sir Christopher Wren in memory of the great disaster. The monument is two hundred and two feet high and made of stone. The height of the monument, 202 feet is the distance to the location that the fire started at the King’s Baker’s shop, Thomas Farynor.
Geocaching is a very good and interesting instrument to use to find these places. It’s a fun way to learn something new and visit places I don’t think I would have seen before.
GREENWICH
This week we did a geocached in Greenwich. Our destination took us to the royal observatory where the British Prime Meridian of the World is located at. This is where the north longitude is 0 00’ 00”. But our GPS didn’t state the same thing. Instead when we walked a bit away our GPS then said that we were at the Prime Meridian. The two data bases have two different definitions of where the Prime Meridian is located. What I thought was interesting is that there is no identification or marking stating that this was a different Prime Meridian.