So You Think You Can Dance (1518 version)


	So You Think You Can Dance (1518 version)

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11-10-2008 11:04 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/439395aa-557f-4f51-8e37-5b8aa7b3cb1f/F5E4B653-E216-4622-B98B-BE293CD0A404/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dancing_Plague_of_1518&oldid=239693510" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dancing_Plague_of_1518&oldid=239693510" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dancing_Plague_of_1518&oldid=239693510"><SPAN>Dancing Plague of 1518</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dancing_Plague_of_1518&oldid=239693510"><P>The <B>Dancing Plague</B> (or <B>Dancing Epidemic</B>) <B>of 1518</B> was a case of <A title="Dancing mania" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania">dancing mania</A> that occurred in <A title="Strasbourg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg">Strasbourg</A>, <A title="Alsace" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace">Alsace</A>, <A title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France">France</A> (then part of the <A title="Holy Roman Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire">Holy Roman Empire</A>) in July 1518. Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest, and over the period of about one month, most of the people died from <A class="mw-redirect" title="Heart attack" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_attack">heart attack</A>, <A title="Stroke" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke">stroke</A>, or <A class="mw-redirect" title="Exhaustion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaustion">exhaustion</A>.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-Discovery_Viegas_0-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-Discovery_Viegas-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dancing_Plague_of_1518&oldid=239693510"><P>The outbreak began in July 1518, when a woman, Frau Troffea, began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-Discovery_Viegas_0-1"><A title="" href="#cite_note-Discovery_Viegas-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP> This lasted somewhere between four to six days. Within a week, 34 others had joined, and within a month, there were around 400 dancers. Most of these people eventually died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-Discovery_Viegas_0-2"><A title="" href="#cite_note-Discovery_Viegas-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dancing_Plague_of_1518&oldid=239693510">It is not known why these people danced to their deaths, nor is it clear that they were dancing willfully.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F5E4B653-E216-4622-B98B-BE293CD0A404/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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