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Paid a $100 prize! This quiz first posted on (10/08/09)  Clue #1
(10/08/09)
A deadly disease, mainly transmitted through the bite of an insect, all but wiped this familiar place off the map. (In the 1870s a series of yellow fever epidemics hit the city. The worst outbreak, in 1878, reduced the population by nearly 75% as many people died or fled the city permanently. Property tax revenues collapsed, and the city could not make payments on its municipal debts. As a result, Memphis lost its city charter, a charter that was returned in 1893. Note for twitter followers: The city was named after the ancient capital of Egypt on the Nile River) Clue #2
(10/08/09)
Thousands perished during that epidemic, and it got so bad that most of those still alive moved away and never returned. 
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