Moonshine
Moonshine (white lightning) is the colloquial term for illegally produced hard liquor—whiskey, rum, brandy, gin, and vodka. The term probably originated around 1785, when it was recor...
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Moonshine
Moonshine is the common name for illegally produced hard liquor—whiskey, rum, brandy, gin, and vodka. (Another name is white lightning.) The term probably was first used in 1785. In t...
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EASTNEW HAVEN, Conn (AP) _ City fire officials are investigating why an emergency medical technician mistakenly declared a man found in a bathtub dead. The victim was taken to the hospital after a ...
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Wellington (dpa) - A century ago, illicit stills producing
moonshine whisky were common in the remote and rugged Hokonui Hills
in New Zealand's deep south, where strict chur...
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After a seven-year quest, the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia has opened in Sautee Nacoochee, giving visitors a chance to discover the history of folk pottery in the region.
The m...
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A Montana prisoner pleaded no contest Tuesday in the killing of a New Jersey woman nearly seven years ago at a highway rest stop in central Arkansas.Ronald James Ward, serving life in prison for an...
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Tennessee's tax on illegal drugs is "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable," an appeals court declared in ruling the "crack tax" was unconstitutional because it derives revenue from illegal activi...
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It's the perfect tax: Government exacts a big payment without having to fend off lobbyists or wage a political fight. And in most cases, the taxpayer doesn't even have a say.That's the allure of Ne...
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A cross-country drifter who sexually assaulted and stabbed a New Jersey woman to death at a remote interstate rest stop in 2000 received a life sentence on Thursday for the slaying.A DNA sample ult...
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White House hopeful Fred Thompson called his trip down an aisle of rifles, shotguns and pistols at a gun show Saturday "a day in paradise," and criticized his leading Republican opponents for past ...
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Many years ago, in a beautiful cathedral in Europe, an elderly man was playing the organ beautifully and skillfully. All the music he played was of a melancholy nature because that day, he was bein...
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Islamabad (dpa) - "Doctors say my eyesight is gone, totally,
irreversibly gone. Allah has punished me because I did not respect
the holy month of Ramadan," Mohammad Jamil sa...
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