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A History of Beer - Part 1

From the desk of Fjordman on Sat, 2009-08-22 23:37

As always when writing about a specific topic, I have used a combination of different sources when doing research for this essay, but the single most important source of information was A History of Beer and Brewingby I. Hornsey. His book is perhaps a little bit too much focused on Britain but is overall very comprehensive and well worth reading. It traces the history of brewing from prehistoric times until the turn of the twenty-first century. Another work I found valuable was Richard W. Unger's book Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Unger's text contains a little information on brewing-practices in the ancient world and even less of the scientific-industrial brewing that we know after the Industrial Revolution. However, his coverage of the Middle Ages and the early modern period is quite good, and I will quote his work extensively when writing about this period.

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Duly Noted: A Hero’s Welcome for the Bad Guy

From the desk of George Handlery on Sat, 2009-08-22 11:06

George Handlery about the week that was. Getting the unwanted nuke. Right and Left. Illusions about tyrannies. Governing creates enemies. The failing state and society’s reaction. Undermining the global order by ignoring the insanity of leading eccentrics. The Dictator’s Tantrum.
 
1. The good news is that reliable sources (Time has confirmed our own oracles’ finding. It declared that its research seeks energy from fission and not the manufacture of nukes. It is, therefore, of some interest that her government has asked the spiritual leadership for the go-ahead to build a bomb. Whatever the real truth might be, we are not to worry. Ahmadinedjad and cohorts who have recently guaranteed the purity of Iran’s elections will comfort us. Such as with an assurance that, should Iran accidentally stumble into the bomb it is not seeking, she will not use it. Well, at least for the time being. May be.

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