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Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The pox, as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.
Peter Lewis Allen
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Peter Lewis Allen
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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