Where's George? is a unique website established in December 1998 by Hank Eskin, a database consultant in Brookline, Massachusetts. Although the primary focus of the website is something else, the findings of the website has been utilized for research purposes. More recently, data from the website have been used to attempt to predict the rapidity and pattern of projected spread of the 2009 swine flu outbreak.
What does the website do?
Hint: TrackGandhi, the Indian version
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295. La Gripe Española?
The last great flu outbreak was the La Gripe Española or the "Spanish" Flu of 1918. It killed some 50 to 100 million people worldwide till 1919 and is thought to be one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.
If the outbreak and impact of this pandemic was fairly global in nature, and considering the fact that neither did it originate in Spain nor create the most number of deaths in Spain, why is it that the outbreak is referred to as "Spanish"?
If the outbreak and impact of this pandemic was fairly global in nature, and considering the fact that neither did it originate in Spain nor create the most number of deaths in Spain, why is it that the outbreak is referred to as "Spanish"?
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