Hunsrück
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Oct 22, 2026
Weingut Mindnich: Green Slate Riesling from the Nahe, Germany | Cool Climate Wine Summit
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9:06Lara MindnichGUEST
so um the the hill we have um over there and it's like um a light part of the Mosel Slate.
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9:17Lara MindnichGUEST
So Hunsrück is following that side and that direction and after Hunsrück, Mosel comes.
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9:25Lara MindnichGUEST
And here we have a few of the Mosel Slate and it's like the green color we have here.
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9:30speaker_0HOST
Okay, interesting.
On Famine Fever and Some of the Other Cognate Forms of Typhus-Rudolf Virchow
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15:26Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In the middle valley of the Elbe they reckoned in 1769, 9, and in 1770, only 5, and in 1771, 10, quite bright days.
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15:39Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
On the 30th of May the thermometer reached only 4 degrees, and on July 12th a heavy fall of snow came down on the Hunsrück.
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15:48Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The foremost consequence was a total failure of the harvest in the year 1770.
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15:54Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The scarcity of corn soon increased to all the terrors of a true famine, more especially in the Altmark, Eichsfeld, throughout all Bohemia and Moravia, Hanover, the Rhenish provinces, and France.
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On Famine Fever and Some of the Other Cognate Forms of Typhus-Rudolf Virchow
Sep 28 · 1 Mention
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14:07Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
the connection between spotted fever and dearth was acknowledged from the very beginning though from considerations bearing upon atmospheric changes and the altitude of the stars to which even in those days a still greater significance was attached in the opinion of the learned it never came into sufficient prominence the terrible plague in the years seventeen seventy to seventy two which desolated the whole of the north and a part of south germany and france left no further doubt about the connection between the same with dearth and failure of the crops those were years of great calamity summer cold winter with hardly any great frost for the most part dull damp weather with such floods of rain in all low-lying districts that unheard inundations were the sequence The following are the numbers of rainy days in the respective years, from 1768 to 1772, namely, in 1768, 177, 1769, 201, 1770, 208, 1771, 175, and 1772, 166. accompanied by an invariably low state of the mercury continuous west wind and the light of day almost constantly obscured by trains of flying grey clouds In the middle valley of the Elbe they reckoned in 1769 nine, and in 1770 only five, and in 1771 ten quite bright days.
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15:54Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
On the 30th of May the thermometer reached only four degrees, and on July 12th a heavy fall of snow came down on the Hunsruck.
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16:04Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
the foremost consequence was a total failure of the harvest in the year seventeen seventy the scarcity of corn soon increased to all the terrors of a true famine more especially in the altmark eichsfeld throughout all bohemia and moravia hanover the rhenish provinces and france arendt the head physician in the town of heiligenstadt in the eichsfeld has left us a very lively description of his impressions of which the following is an extract never shall i think but with horror of the misery of our country of the afflicting distressing and cruel condition of our fellow-countrymen those who sickened lay without hope hay second crop garden fruits vegetables and grain were spoiled and rotting the farmer beheld his labours which had cost him the sweat of his brow perish utterly and miserably floods of calamity the most dreadful of them famine rolled over their heads you could see the grain on the stalk just sprouting but unseasonably and only partially dried by the heat of the stove they were taken and consumed by the famished poor to appease the cravings of hunger
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