Bacon

Using Bishop Ussher’s Bible chronology from the creation to Nebuchadnezzar II provides the following dates: ^[3]

• 4004 BC - Creation
• 3317 BC - Birth of Methuselah
• 3000 BC - Approximate building of the Great Pyramids of Giza
• 2348 BC - Death of Methuselah and Noah’s flood

Syphilis had been called the “French disease” in Italy and Germany, and the “Italian disease” in France. In addition, the Dutch called it the “Spanish disease”, the Russians called it the “Polish disease”, the Turks called it the “Christian disease” or “Frank disease” (frengi) and the Tahitians called it the “British disease”.