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Questions related to the history of any organic compound (often used as a drug or a cleaning or sanitizing solution) in which the hydroxyl function group is bound to a carbon. Most often associated with intoxicating beverages.
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Why is rum naval?
Rum is "associated with naval practice" mainly because it was issued to the sailors of the Royal navy. Earlier they used beer and/or wine as a part of daily ration. When the operations in Caribbean st …
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Are there examples of battles fought under the influence (of alcohol)?
It is well known that Russian front line troops were given 100 gram of vodka daily. Sometimes this norm was doubled. This was introduced by Stalin's personal
order during the Finnish war 1940, and the …
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What is the strongest alcoholic drink that existed during the Middle Ages in Europe?
Distillation of alcohol was known since the late antiquity, at least. …
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When did we stop diluting wine?
I don't know the exact answer, but have the following conjecture.
In the old times water from many sources was not safe, and people did not know that one has to boil it to make safe. So they mostly d …
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Did pirates really drink a lot of rum?
The pirates, as well as regular navy sailors drank what was available. For example, the British sailors had regular rations of beer or wine. When this was not available, they drank rum or whatever was …
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Did early northern Europeans drink alcohol?
Romans brought wine. Before that the people of Northern Europe drank some kind of beer. Even in the Roman times the imported wine was expensive.
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