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  • Older Budweiser

    06/21/2005 4:19:47 AM PDT · by gr8eman · 19 replies · 1,084+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | June 20, 2005 | Thomas Sowell
    Back in the days of the Hapsburg Empire, there was a town in Bohemia called Budweis. The people in that town were called Budweisers and the town had a brewery which produced beer with the same name -- but different from the American Budweiser. Like many communities in Bohemia during that era, Budweis had people of both Czech and German ancestries, speaking different languages, though many were also bilingual. They got along pretty well and most people there thought of themselves as Budweisers, rather than as Czechs or Germans. But that would later change -- for the worse -- not...