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Category Archives: Entertainment
Speakeasy: Medicinal Alcohol & Prohibition Prescriptions
During Prohibition, the U.S. Treasury Department authorized physicians to write prescriptions for medicinal alcohol. Licensed doctors, with pads of government-issued prescription forms printed on treasury paper, advised their patients to take regular doses of hooch to stave off a number of … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Amendment, Al Capone, booze, clubs, dance hall, doctors, Empire Distillery, home parties, hooch, Man Cave, Medical Cannabis, medicinal alcohol, nurses, pharmacy, prescription, private, Prohibition, quackery, Roaring 20s, Sleeman Brewery, speakeasy, The National Prohibition Act, U.S. Treasury Department, whiskey, wine
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Introduction Hansel and Gretel are sent into the forest by their mother to gather berries. The children get lost and stumble upon a house made of gingerbread, which proves too much of a temptation, despite the strange woman … Continue reading
Traditional Christmas Plum Pudding
“In half a minute Mrs. Cratchit entered—flushed, but smiling proudly—with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.” – A … Continue reading
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Tagged A Christmas Carol, brandy, Charles Dickens, holly, mistletoe, plum pudding
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A Mystery: The Coventry Carol
If you thought Christmas was all about good tidings and joy, you were wrong. The Coventry Carol is a song about infanticide and also a lullaby sung by mothers of doomed children. Eggnog? The English carol dates back to the 16th Century and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bethlehem, Bible, blessings, Choir, Christian, Christmas, Coventry, England, gifts, Herod, Holiday, Holy, infant, Jesus, Jewish, Joseph, Magi, Mary, massacre, men, mystery, nativity, pageant, star, three, virgin, Westminster Cathedral, wise
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