Topics
Ideas, people, peoples, organizations, places and dates named in the sources. Each page gathers every passage that mentions one, in the original and in English.
Words in the sources' own languages have pages too: Words.
Ideas
- A life for a life
- Almond milk
- Annedda
- Artificial moons
- Astrology 4 sources
- Bills of mortality 3 sources
- Bison 3 sources
- Bleeding and purging 3 sources
- Buboes (plague swellings) 5 sources
- Burial and the dead 21 sources
- Cacao 2 sources
- Cannibalism 4 sources
- Cassava (manioc) 4 sources
- Caste
- Cemí
- Chemical rays (ultraviolet light)
- Cholera 2 sources
- Cold Damage (傷寒) 2 sources
- Contagion 18 sources
- Corrupted air 9 sources
- Demons 7 sources
- Divination
- Divine punishment and testing 11 sources
- Doctors and healers 27 sources
- Dreams that foretell
- Eclipses and comets 4 sources
- El Dorado
- Epidemic, plague, pestilence 29 sources
- Famine and dearth 8 sources
- Fear and flight 17 sources
- Feast days and the church year 6 sources
- Filial duty (孝)
- Fish days and fasts 4 sources
- Fish sauce (liquamen, garum)
- Germs 4 sources
- Ghosts and spirits (鬼神)
- God's providence 3 sources
- Gold and silver 7 sources
- Goodness (仁)
- Great fires 2 sources
- Greenhouses in space
- Guns 4 sources
- Harmful winds (邪風)
- Healing dreams
- Healing plants 2 sources
- Heaven and the ruler’s virtue
- Horses
- Human sacrifice 2 sources
- Influenza 4 sources
- Inns, hotels and hospitality 7 sources
- Inoculation 5 sources
- Intercalation 2 sources
- Invisible bullets
- Iron and iron tools 4 sources
- Jews blamed for the plague
- Kami (神祇)
- Lending at interest 3 sources
- Lucky odd numbers 2 sources
- Magic and witchcraft
- Maize (corn) 12 sources
- Maracas (sacred rattles)
- Markets and trade 14 sources
- Masks 2 sources
- May dew
- Maya books
- Oracles 2 sources
- Ozone
- Patent medicines 2 sources
- Peace treaties
- Pepper 2 sources
- Pestilential qi (戾氣)
- Poisoning suspected 2 sources
- Post roads and messengers
- Prices and wages after the plague 4 sources
- Qi (氣) 5 sources
- Quarantine and public health measures 6 sources
- Reading entrails 2 sources
- Relics and holy images
- Relief for the sick and poor 7 sources
- Rich and poor 16 sources
- Rights to the land
- Road-feast rites (道饗祭)
- Sacrifice and prayer 2 sources
- Scurvy 2 sources
- Shamans and priests (巫祝) 2 sources
- Slavery and forced labor 11 sources
- Smallpox 7 sources
- Space suit
- Spaceflight 2 sources
- Spices
- Sugar and honey 2 sources
- Sutra readings
- Taking the waters 2 sources
- Talismans (符)
- Tea
- Temple fires
- The belief that Black people could not catch yellow fever 2 sources
- The end of the world 2 sources
- The ether 2 sources
- The Five Phases (五行)
- The fur trade 5 sources
- The gentleman (君子)
- The humors 5 sources
- The Julian calendar 2 sources
- The Lar of the household
- The moon and growing things
- The peace pipe
- The six ages of the world
- The telegraph
- The womb poison (胎毒)
- Travel 4 sources
- Typhoid fever
- Vaccination
- Wampum (shell beads)
- War and service 3 sources
- War loans 2 sources
- Water and disease
- Women's work 7 sources
- Yellow fever 3 sources
- Yin and yang (陰陽) 4 sources
People
- Abe no Tsugumaro (阿倍継麻呂)
- Abel Faivre
- Abraham
- Absalom Jones
- Adam Stephen
- Aelius Aristides
- Aeneas
- Afonso Lopes
- Agnolo di Tura
- Aires Correia
- Al-Bakri
- Al-Masudi
- Albert Thomas
- Alcimus
- Alexander Wiley
- Alfonso XIII
- Alfred the Great 2 sources
- Alkindar Miri
- Alom, Qaholom
- Alonso de Solís
- Anna Perenna
- Anton Delvig
- Apollo
- Arghun Shah
- Asclepius 2 sources
- Atahualpa 2 sources
- Athena
- Atoco
- Attickasish
- Augustus 2 sources
- Balaam
- Balam-Agab
- Balam-Quitze
- Bartholomew Columbus
- Baudu
- Beornmod
- Bian Que (扁鵲), also Qin Yueren (秦越人) 2 sources
- Bogao (伯髙)
- Callityche
- Cardinal Fleury
- Carna
- Changsang (長桑)
- Charles C. Duncan
- Charles Darwin
- Charles II of England 2 sources
- Chen Lin (陳琳)
- Christopher Columbus
- Cicero
- Cingius (Cincius)
- Confucius (孔子) 2 sources
- Cotton Mather
- Cuerauaperi
- Curicaueri
- David E. Bell
- Diego Juan
- Diomedes
- Domagaya
- Domitian
- Don Juan, lord of Guatavita
- Donnacona
- Dr. Burnett
- Dubslane
- Duracotus
- Eadsige
- Edward III
- Edward Jenner
- Edward Montagu
- Edward the Confessor
- Edward the Martyr
- Edward Wortley Montagu
- Elisabeth of Carinthia
- Elizabeth Knepp
- Emanuel Timonius
- Emperor Shōmu (聖武天皇)
- Emperor Zhenzong of Song (宋真宗)
- Faddei Bulgarin
- Februus
- Fenestella
- Ferdinand II of Aragon
- Ferdinando
- Ferdinando Gorges
- Feronia
- Fiolxhildis
- Francisco Maldonado
- Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
- Frederick F. Russell
- Frederick III of Sicily
- Frederick IV of Sicily
- Freydis
- Fritz Erler
- Fujiwara no Fuhito (藤原不比等)
- Fujiwara no Fusasaki (藤原房前)
- Fujiwara no Maro (藤原麻呂)
- Fujiwara no Muchimaro (藤原武智麻呂)
- Fujiwara no Umakai (藤原宇合)
- Fulvius Nobilior 2 sources
- Galen 2 sources
- George Mallory
- George Orcutt
- George P. Miller
- Gerard Odonis
- Giovanni Villani
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
- God 31 sources
- Guarionex
- Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir
- Hadji Oomer Jamal
- Haliburton
- Hamo de Hethe
- Harold II (Harold Godwinson)
- Heart of Sky (Hurakan)
- Heliodorus
- Henry I of England
- Henry II of England
- Hermias
- Hernán Cortés
- Hernando de Soto 2 sources
- Hippocrates 2 sources
- Homer 2 sources
- Huascar
- Hunyg
- Iocahuuague
- Ipperu Wasu
- Iqi-Balam
- Isaac Newton
- Isabella I of Castile
- Isaiah
- Ischomachus
- Izz al-Din ibn Jamaa (preacher)
- Jacobus Pylarinus
- Jacques Cartier
- James E. Webb
- James Isham
- James Montgomery Flagg
- Janus
- Jeppipo Wasu
- Jesus Christ 4 sources
- Job
- John de Offord
- John de Stratford
- John Lining
- John of Aragon
- Juan Borgoñón
- Juan Mateo
- Julius Caesar 2 sources
- Junius Gracchanus
- Juno 2 sources
- Jupiter 2 sources
- Justinian I
- Kanagatucko
- Kenneth S. Pitzer
- Ki no Ohito (紀男人)
- King Edgar
- King Stephen
- Kudara no Konikishi Rōgu (百済王郎虞)
- Lanfranc
- Laura
- Leif Eriksson
- Leigong (雷公)
- Libuše
- Licinius Macer
- Liu Zhen (劉楨)
- Lope de Aguirre
- Lord Brouncker
- Lord Sandhurst
- Louis XIV
- Louis-Marie, vicomte de Noailles
- Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón
- Lucius Junius Brutus
- Ludovicus (“Socrates”)
- Luis Brandão
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Mabiatué
- Macc bethu
- Maelinmun
- Mahucutah
- Maia 2 sources
- Manuel I of Portugal
- Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
- Mark Antony 2 sources
- Mars 2 sources
- Martin Frobisher
- Mary Mallon (“Typhoid Mary”)
- Massasoit (Ousamequin)
- Master Cang (倉公), Chunyu Yi (淳于意)
- Mathew Carey
- Mathew Clarkson
- Matthias
- Mercury 2 sources
- Mibu no Utamaro (壬生宇太麻呂)
- Mikhail Pogodin
- Moctezuma II
- Muhammad 2 sources
- Myles Standish
- Nakatomi no Nashiro (中臣名代)
- Natalya Goncharova
- Nicholas Lanier
- Nicolau Coelho
- Numa Pompilius 2 sources
- Octave Mouret
- Odysseus 2 sources
- Ohthere
- Ōkura no Maro (大蔵麻呂)
- Ono no Oyu (小野老)
- Ostenaco
- Ōtomo no Minaka (大伴三中)
- Ōyake no Ōkuni (大宅大国)
- Paul the Apostle
- Pedro Álvares Cabral
- Pedro de Alvarado
- Pedro de la Gasca
- Pedro de Ursúa
- Pedro Simón
- Pericles
- Phidias
- Philippe Rougemont
- Philippe, Duke of Orléans
- Philumene
- Pope Clement VI 3 sources
- Pope Paschal I
- Pope Stephen IV
- Price Daniel
- Prince Nagata (長田王)
- Prince Ōno (大野王)
- Prof. Kuhnemann
- Pyotr Pletnev
- Pythagoras
- Qibo (岐伯)
- Qubilai (Kublai) Khan
- Rahpop Achi Balam
- Ramón Pané
- Richard Allen
- Richard II of England
- Richard Pfeiffer
- Robert Slingsby
- Romulus 2 sources
- Rudolf II
- Rufus Cole
- Rupert Blue
- Saint Agatha
- Salah al-Din Khalil al-Alai
- Samoset
- Samuel de Champlain
- Sancho de Tovar
- Sarah Chiswell
- Sarapis
- Satan (the Devil)
- Scipio Africanus
- Sebastián de Benalcázar
- Seneca
- Seth Fuller
- Shaoshi (少師)
- Shaoyu (少俞)
- Shennong (神農), the Divine Farmer
- Simão de Miranda
- Sir George Carteret
- Sir John Denham
- Sir John Mennes
- Sir William Batten
- Snorri Karlsefnisson
- Snorri Thorbrandsson
- Socrates
- Solomon
- Squanto (Tisquantum)
- Stephen Girard
- Suetonius
- Swifneh
- Tachibana no Moroe (橘諸兄)
- Tachibana no Sai (橘佐為)
- Tajihi no Agatamori (多治比県守)
- Tajihi no Shima (多治比嶋)
- Tangaxoan (Zinzicha)
- Tarquin 2 sources
- Telemachus
- Tepeu and Gucumatz
- The Fates (Parcae)
- The Great Sun
- The Lady of Cofitachequi
- The Tattooed Serpent
- The Virgin Mary 2 sources
- The Yellow Emperor (黄帝)
- Theodore the referendarius
- Thomas Bradwardine
- Thomas Dermer
- Thomas Hunt
- Thorbrand Snorrason
- Thorfinn Karlsefni 2 sources
- Tycho Brahe
- Tzakol, Bitol
- Varro 2 sources
- Venus (Aphrodite) 3 sources
- Verrius Flaccus
- Vesta
- Virgil
- Vratinge Wasu
- Vulcan 2 sources
- W. F. Gatacre
- Wang Dan (王旦)
- William Brewster
- William C. Gorgas
- William Douglass
- William Gray
- William H. Welch
- William Hewer 2 sources
- William of Corbeil
- William Pitt Mason
- Wingina (Pemisapan)
- Wulfstan (traveler)
- Xaratanga
- Xmucane
- Xpiyacoc
- Xu Gan (徐幹)
- Yang Qing (陽慶)
- Ying Yang (應瑒)
- Yu Fu (兪附)
- Zeng Shen (曾參), Master Zeng (曾子)
- Zeus
- Zhang Ji (張機), also Zhang Zhongjing
- Zichan (子產)
- Zigong (子貢)
- Zuangua
Peoples
- Algonquin
- Amazigh (Berbers)
- Archithinue
- Armouchiquois
- Assiniboine (Nakoda)
- Beormas (Permians)
- Cañari
- English 2 sources
- French 6 sources
- Germans 2 sources
- Greeks 2 sources
- Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
- Innu (Montagnais) 2 sources
- Kalinago (Caribs) 3 sources
- Mi'kmaq (Souriquois)
- Natchez
- Octanaks
- Portuguese 2 sources
- Querechos
- Sámi (Finnas)
- Skraelings 2 sources
- Spaniards 5 sources
- Taíno
- Teyas
- Tlingit
- Tupinambá 2 sources
- Warao (Tivitivas)
- Wendat (Huron) 2 sources
- Wolastoqiyik and Passamaquoddy (Etchemin)
Organizations
- NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics)
- NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
- The Board of Guardians of St. James's parish
- The Bombay Plague Committee
- The citizens' committee (Philadelphia, 1793) 3 sources
- The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
- The Company of Royal Adventurers into Africa (Guinea Company)
- The Dominicans (Order of Preachers)
- The Franciscans (Friars Minor)
- The General Register Office
- The Hygienic Laboratory
- The National Research Council
- The New York City Board of Health
- The Peninsular and Oriental Company (P&O)
- The United States Congress
- The United States Public Health Service
Places
- Abramovo
- Acarnania
- Acre
- Africa 3 sources
- Agra
- Agrigento
- Aigues-Mortes
- Ajlun
- Alba Longa
- Aleppo 2 sources
- Alexandria 4 sources
- Algiers
- Ambato
- Amboise
- Angola
- Antioch
- Anxur (Tarracina)
- Apulia
- Arabia
- Arauco
- Arcadia
- Aricia 3 sources
- Arkhangelsk
- Armenia
- Asheville
- Ashkelon
- Asia
- Athens 4 sources
- Atlantic Ocean 2 sources
- Attica 2 sources
- Avignon 2 sources
- Baalbek
- Baden
- Barqa (Cyrenaica)
- Bath 2 sources
- Beijing
- Beirut (Beyrout) 2 sources
- Beneventum
- Bergen
- Bermuda
- Bertioga
- Black Sea (the Great Sea)
- Bloody Point
- Bogotá
- Bohemia
- Boldino
- Bombay
- Boston 2 sources
- Brabant
- Brattahlid
- Brazil 2 sources
- Brentford
- Brie
- Bristol, Pennsylvania
- Brittany
- Broad Street, Soho
- Brooklyn
- Burgenda land (Bornholm)
- Burgundy
- Bush Hill 2 sources
- Cairo 4 sources
- Calabria
- Camp Devens
- Canbalu (Khanbaliq)
- Canterbury 2 sources
- Canusium
- Cartagena de Indias
- Castile 3 sources
- Catalonia
- Catania
- Chalco
- Chertsey
- Chester
- Chiaha
- Chicago
- Chile
- China 2 sources
- Chote (Chota), Overhill Cherokee towns
- Chouacoët
- Cicuye (Pecos Pueblo)
- Claros
- Coça (Coosa)
- Cofitachequi (Cutifachiqui)
- Constantinople (Byzantium) 3 sources
- Copenhagen
- Cornwall
- Corsica
- Countess of Warwick's Island (Kodlunarn)
- Coyoacan
- Cuauhtitlan
- Cuba
- Cumae
- Cyprus
- Daghestan
- Damascus 2 sources
- Dazaifu (大宰府, also 太宰府)
- Denmark 4 sources
- Deptford
- Diyarbakır (Diarbékir)
- Dominica (Ceyre)
- Drury Lane
- Egypt 6 sources
- England 9 sources
- Erith
- Estland
- Ethiopia (Aethiopia)
- Europe 7 sources
- Faversham
- Ferentinum
- Fez
- Florence 2 sources
- Forum Appii
- France 7 sources
- Frankfurt
- Gascony
- Gaza 2 sources
- Genoa 2 sources
- Germany 5 sources
- Gloucester
- Gördes (Gheurdès)
- Granada 2 sources
- Greece 2 sources
- Greenland
- Greenwich
- Guadeloupe (the Spaniards’ Guadalupe; Karukera)
- Guanahani
- Guiana
- Gulf of Urabá
- Halling
- Halogaland (Hålogaland)
- Hama
- Hampstead
- Hebron
- Hedeby (æt Hæþum)
- Heijō-kyō (平城京), Nara 2 sources
- Hekla
- Hispaniola 3 sources
- Holland (the Dutch Republic)
- Homs 2 sources
- Hungary
- Hven
- Iceland
- Iga (伊賀)
- India 4 sources
- Ireland 2 sources
- Isfahan (Hispahan)
- Isle of Wight
- Islington
- Italy 6 sources
- Izu (伊豆)
- Jerusalem 3 sources
- Jiangxi
- Kaluga
- Karamania
- Kermanshah (Kermancha)
- Kinibequi (Kennebec)
- Kırşehir (Kircheer)
- Kula (Coula)
- Kurdistan
- La Concepción
- La Florida 2 sources
- Lake Guatavita
- Latium 2 sources
- Lavinium
- Lemnos
- Lesnes Abbey
- Libya
- Liverpool
- Lombardy
- London 9 sources
- Louvain (Leuven)
- Luanda
- Maarrat al-Numan
- Madras
- Majorca
- Malling
- Malta
- Marseille
- Mascali
- Mayfield
- Mecca 2 sources
- Mediterranean Sea 2 sources
- Mejirodai
- Messina
- Mexico-Tenochtitlan 2 sources
- Michoacán
- Milan
- Misr (Fustat)
- Montpellier
- Moscow
- Mount Emei
- Mount Everest
- Mount Washington
- Munich
- Nagato (長門)
- New England
- New Spain 2 sources
- New York City 2 sources
- Newfoundland 2 sources
- Nijmegen (Nimeguen)
- North Brother Island, New York
- Northampton
- Norway 3 sources
- Norwich
- Ochuse
- Odiham
- Off Cape Finisterre and Vigo Bay
- Olympia
- Pacific Ocean (the South Sea)
- Palestine
- Paris 7 sources
- Parma
- Paxil and Cayala
- Pelusium
- Pentegoët (Penobscot)
- Penza
- Pergamon
- Persia 4 sources
- Peru 4 sources
- Peterborough
- Philadelphia 3 sources
- Phoenicia
- Piraeus
- Pisa
- Port des Français (Lituya Bay)
- Praeneste
- Provence
- Putney 2 sources
- Quito
- Quivira 2 sources
- Red Sea
- Rocamadour
- Rochester 2 sources
- Romania (the Byzantine Empire)
- Rome 3 sources
- Rouen
- Roxbury
- Russia 2 sources
- Salamanca
- Santa Maria della Scala
- Santa Marta
- Sardinia
- Savoy
- Sciacca (Xacca)
- Sciringes heal (Skíringssalr)
- Scotland 2 sources
- Shamakhi (Schoumaka)
- Sicily 2 sources
- Sidon
- Siena
- Silla (新羅)
- Sind
- Sis
- Skowhegan
- Smyrna 4 sources
- Somerset
- South Carolina
- Southampton
- Sowams
- Spain 8 sources
- Sparta
- St. Albans
- St. James's Park
- St. Lawrence River
- St. Petersburg
- Stadacona, and the French fort on the Sainte-Croix River
- Suidōbashi
- Suruga (駿河)
- Switzerland
- Sycae
- Syracuse
- Syria 2 sources
- Tabasco
- Taza
- Tehran
- Texcoco 2 sources
- The Amazon River
- The Crimea
- The Dauphiné
- The Great Island (Long Island of the Holston)
- The Greek archipelago
- The Holy Land
- The Hôtel-Dieu, Paris
- The Indies 5 sources
- The Jama Masjid, Bombay
- The Land of Darkness
- The lands of Uzbek (the Golden Horde)
- The Levant
- The Maghrib
- The Moon 2 sources
- The Mosque of the Footprints
- The mouths of the Orinoco
- The pass of Ayla
- The Peloponnese
- The road from Rome to Brundisium
- The Tower of London
- The western shore of Lake Champlain, near Ticonderoga
- Tierra Firme 3 sources
- Tlacopan
- Tlatelolco
- Tlaxcala 2 sources
- Toledo
- Tomotley
- Transoxiana
- Trapani
- Trinidad
- Trivicum
- Trottiscliffe
- Truso
- Tsukushi (筑紫)
- Tsushima (津嶋, 対馬)
- Tumebamba
- Turkey (Anatolia)
- Turkey (the Ottoman Empire)
- Tusculum 2 sources
- Tver
- Ulua
- United States 6 sources
- Uwattibi (Ubatuba)
- Valencia
- Venus (the planet) 2 sources
- Verona
- Vesuvius
- Vinland
- Vistula
- Vyatka
- Wachusett
- Wakasa (若狭)
- Wales
- Waseda
- Washington
- Westminster 3 sources
- Whitehall
- Winchester
- Woolwich
- Yamato (大倭)
- York
Dates
- 430 BCE
- 46 BCE 2 sources
- Jian'an 1 (建安元年)
- Jian'an 22 (建安二十二年)
- 238 CE
- 542 CE
- Tenpyō 9 (天平九年)
- 1346
- 1347
- 1348 7 sources
- 23rd year of Edward III
- 1349 3 sources
- 24th year of Edward III
- 1492
- 1608
- 1770
- 1793 2 sources
- 1844
- 1867
- 1915
- 1916
- 1917 3 sources
- 1918
- 1958