Strange fact about a famous Rhyme

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This is some interesting and also a strange news that is read in a book by me about the famous rhyme that is sung by children so innocently all these years without knowing the story behind it. It’s all about the rhyme…..

 

Ring a ring o’ roses,

A pocket full of posies,                

Atishoo ! Atishoo ! 

We all fell down.

The song arose in the London streets in 1665 during an epidemic of plague.

Ring o’ Roses refers to small, red rash-like areas on people infected with plague, or the Black death.
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