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The 18th Amendment, better known as Prohibition, was ratified on this day in history, Jan. 16, 1919. It became the law of the land one year later, leading to an array of social consequences.

When Avery County was created in February 1911, a statewide ban, or prohibition, on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors was already in effect. The Eighteenth Amendment would not

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As you lift a libation in celebration of another day’s hard work done or another setting of the sun, we invite you to take a moment to reflect upon what’s behind the customs involved in imbibing. How did happy hour come into being? Why did it become customary to drink before dining? When did mixing

As you lift a libation in celebration of another day’s hard work done or another setting of the sun, we invite you to take a moment to reflect upon what’s behind the customs involved in imbibing. How did happy hour come into being? Why did it become customary to drink before dining? When did mixing

A bartender dressed in period attire at The 86 Room, a speakeasy-themed craft cocktail bar in downtown Fort Myers, prepares a peppy 86 cocktail. As you lift a libation in celebration of another day’s hard work done or another setting of the sun, we invite you to take a moment to reflect upon what’s behind

Although the public attention was focused on the enforcement (or the lack thereof) of the Prohibition laws, Delaware was changing in more fundamental ways.

In my early formative years, Hollywood and TV and toy guns and games inundated and inured me to violence. It was always the good guys against the bad guys. My father fought in WWII and the Korean War and my brother in the Vietnam War. Later, schooling taught me of other wars around the world.

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Organized crime, complex of highly centralized enterprises set up for the purpose of engaging in illegal activities. Such organizations engage in offenses such as cargo theft, fraud, robbery, kidnapping for ransom, and the demanding of “protection” payments. The principal source of income for these criminal syndicates is the supply of goods and services that are illegal but for which there is continued public demand, such as drugs, prostitution, loan-sharking (i.e., usury), and gambling. Al...