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The section also assesses the millennium's worst year as 1347 (bubonic plague comes to the Continent) and its best as 1789 (French Revolution, George Washington takes office, the factory system is born, bourbon is invented, Mozart writes two piano sonatas, and Beethoven writes two preludes).
All too frequently a cycle of drought, famine, and plague would decimate the population.
That's because Iceland has an incredibly homogenous population, further "culled" by a plague and a natural disaster, and keeps excellent medical records (including a tissue sample from every autopsy conducted in the country since the 1930s).
The iron rococo cross in the centre was erected in 1763 by the Serbian community (in gratitude for being spared by the plague) and the majestic Serbian church on the hill is the town’s most prominent landmark.
Even stranger, in many of these dairy-avoiding countries, people get through life with far fewer of the age-related hip fractures that plague Americans.