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  • Rye grain from 1878 shipwreck opens door to rare whiskey revival efforts

    08/07/2025 4:16:22 PM PDT · by Omnivore-Dan · 43 replies
    Fox News ^ | 08/07/2925 | Andrea Margolis
    Long before bourbon dominated the liquor market, rye whiskey reigned supreme. Now, a Midwestern distiller is teaming up with scientists to bring back a long-gone type of grain and turn it into spicy, bold whiskey. The source is a wooden schooner named the James R. Bentley that's been sitting in Lake Huron for nearly 150 years. The ship sank in Nov. 1878 after striking a shoal.
  • Margaret Sanger's father was an ardent Georgist

    08/09/2016 10:39:05 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 31 replies
    Everywhere you look in early progressivism, the influence of Henry George and his ideals as espoused in the book Progress and Poverty can be found. So when doing some digging around this morning, I was surprised to learn that Sanger's father Michael was ardently in favor of George's ideas. My surprise was only in the individual,(my reaction was more like "Oh wow - now, that figures. It makes perfect sense.") for in the aggregate it is impossible to have progressive ideology without Henry George. The Higgins family was so impacted by the work of George that one of Margaret's brothers...