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distilled beverages in a bar

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  • Image 1Allehandaborgen is a historic office building in Örebro, Sweden that was built 1891.
    Allehandaborgen is a historic office building in Örebro, Sweden that was built 1891.

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The corner of a street with a public house called The Ivy Bush on the right side. In the background two tall brick towers can be seen further left.
Mentioned at the beginning of The Lord of the Rings, the Ivy Bush is the closest public house to Birmingham Oratory which Tolkien attended while living near Edgbaston Reservoir. Perrott's Folly is nearby.
The only known photograph of Blind Lemon Jefferson, taken between 1926 and 1929
William Ewart Gladstone – "Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
Heinz pickle pins
A computing cheese cutter manufactured by the Computing Cheese Cutter Company, Incorporated, Anderson, Indiana, USA. Patented May 23, September 26, 1903
Marshallese cuisine

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Emergency Banking Act
, eight days after taking office (March 12, 1933).
Headstone commemorating the Mojave phone booth (later removed) – 760-733-9969

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(Fair use). Feel Like A Stranger 6-9-90. ~ play it 5:00 onward → → → (play it LOUD.)
We like livin' right, and bein' free
  1. ^ The Oxford Companion to Cheese. Oxford University Press. 2016. p. 256. Retrieved January 6, 2020.

Diomede Islands

Big Diomede ("Tomorrow Island", due to the International Date Line), seen from its nearest neighbor, Little Diomede

Little Diomede Island

  • Pearl River Delta – one of the most densely urbanized regions in the world, and is often considered a megacity. It is now the wealthiest region in South China and one of the wealthiest in the whole of China.
    Pearl River Delta – one of the most densely urbanized regions in the world, and is often considered a megacity. It is now the wealthiest region in South China and one of the wealthiest in the whole of China.
  • See peanut butter whiskey
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  • Pillkaller – a well-known liquor from Dobrovolsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Served here with spicy liverwurst and mustard
    Pillkaller – a well-known liquor from Dobrovolsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Served here with spicy liverwurst and mustard
  • The Longaberger Company former headquarters
    The Longaberger Company former headquarters
  • Wściekły pies is a Polish alcoholic drink consisting of a shot of vodka, a small amount of thick raspberry or blackcurrant juice, and several drops of tabasco sauce
    Wściekły pies is a Polish alcoholic drink consisting of a shot of vodka, a small amount of thick raspberry or blackcurrant juice, and several drops of tabasco sauce
U.S. Navy airships and balloons in 1931
The 3 major airline alliances and the current fleet size of their home carriers (excluding subsidiaries, cargo and connecting partners) - from November 2023

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Man working with a movie projector in a movie theater, 1958
Man working with a movie projector in a movie theater, 1958
Satellite photograph of a mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars, often called the "Face on Mars" and cited as evidence of extraterrestrial habitation. See also: Pareidolia
  • Porcini mushroom terrine
    Porcini mushroom terrine
"Earth Life May Have Originated at Deep-Sea Vents" (source).
See also: Abiogenesis § Deep sea hydrothermal vents and Earliest known life forms.
A Radisson Blu hotel in Frankfurt, Germany
Trump International Hotel Las Vegas
The Selfridges Building in Birmingham, England
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Porfirio Rubirosa was a Dominican diplomat, race car driver, soldier and polo player who also made his mark as an international playboy for his jetsetting lifestyle and his legendary sexual prowess with women.[1]
Russian peasants
. Published in Projector, May 1926.
Index Librorum Prohibitorum was a list of publications deemed heretical or contrary to morality by the Sacred Congregation of the Index (a former Dicastery of the Roman Curia); Catholics were forbidden to read them.
Fred Whibley (1855–1919) abandoned a career as clerk in a London bank to escape from the constraints and social expectations of respectability in the Victorian era. He ended up as a copra trader on Niutao in Tuvalu in the central Pacific Ocean.
Fridtjof Nansen (10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Idi Amin (1925 – 16 August 2003) served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. He ruled as a military dictator and is considered one of the most brutal despots in modern world history.
Umarell are men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks – stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unwanted advice to the workers. Pictured are Umarells observing re-paving at the corners of Palazzo Re Enzo and Via Rizzoli, Bologna (2015–16)

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References

  1. ^ Heath, Chris (January 29, 2018). "Quincy Jones Has a Story About That". GQ.
  2. ^ Barry, Ellen (20 May 2011). "Georgia Says Russia Committed Genocide in 19th Century". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 14 March 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2020.

It is over. The trading that existed down the centuries has died. We have an electronic market today. It is the present. It is the future.

NASDAQ CEO, April 2011[1]

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  1. ^ Bowley, Graham (April 25, 2011). "Preserving a Market Symbol". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 August 2014.