- The Scarlet Plague by Jack London (gutenberg.org)
The way led along upon what had once been the embankment of a railroad. But no train had run upon it for many years. The forest on either side swelled up the slopes of the embankment and crested across it in a green wave of trees and bushes. The trail was as narrow as a man’s body, and was no more than a wild-animal runway.
- Horologium (constellation) (Wikipedia)
Horologium (Latin hōrologium, the pendulum clock, from Greek ὡρολόγιον, lit. ‘an instrument for telling the hour’) is a constellation of six stars faintly visible in the southern celestial hemisphere. It was first described by the French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in 1756 and visualized by him as a clock with a pendulum and a second hand. In 1922 the constellation was redefined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) as a region of the celestial sphere containing Lacaille’s stars, and has since been an IAU designated constellation. Horologium’s associated region is wholly visible to observers south of 23°N.
- The Scarlet Plague (Wikipedia)
The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel by American writer Jack London, originally published in The London Magazine in 1912. The book was noted in 2020 as having been very similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is today.