Neatorama posted an Origin of Booze that provides a quick summary so that you can get your facts straight when called upon to deliver a history lesson at the bar.
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Neatorama: The Origin of Booze

I was somewhat shocked when I read about a recent poll conducted in by UKTV Gold Television that showed 23% of Briton’s surveyed thought that Winston Churchill was a myth. The sample size was only 3000, but its still unexpected. 58% believed that Sherlock Holmes was real. What are these people learning [...]

“The complaints change – a hundred years ago our Victorian ancestors accused the Islamic world of being sensuous and decadent, with an overdeveloped penchant for sodomy; now Martin Amis attacks it for what he believes is its mass sexual frustration and homophobia.”
Thank God for the prime meridian, otherwise we wouldn’t know where to locate the [...]