Learn why the drinking age in the USA is 21 years old. Explore the evolution and history of the drinking age, and the reasons why the USA raised it...
There are some exceptions to this rule, such as when the alcohol is being consumed as part of a religious ceremony or for educational purposes.What are Drinking Age Laws? For better or for worse, the United States of America has a long and proud history with alcohol. In fact, at the ...
A Brief History of the Drinking Age DebateStephen Wallace
The climate also fluctuated quite a bit over the last thousand years. The Medieval Warm Period occurred 950 and 1250 CE followed by The Little Ice Age from 1300 to 1850 CE. Of course, these periods of climatic differences influenced wine character in a variety of ways, including harvest chemi...
“It was an age that considered alcohol safer than water… Water had a bad reputation in seventeenth-century Europe, where much of it was polluted, and many colonists expected a similar situation in America. There was genuine surprise upon finding the stuff potable.” Also, liquor kept well ...
The great saloons of the gilded age Thomas, who reportedly started his career at the El Dorado in San Francisco in 1849 (and certainly jumped ship there as a sailor during that year), and worked in Virginia City, Nevada, as well as the Rockies, was very much a creature of the wild ...
made the first recorded planting of grapevines at the Bay of Islands in 1819. The earliest recorded winemaker was Scotsman James Busby, appointed the first British Resident in New Zealand. When the French explorer, Dumont d’Urville, visited Busby at Waitangi in 1840, he was given “a light...
Family history, alcohol use and dependence symptoms among young adults in the United States. Drawing upon data from the National Longitudinal Survey of young adults, this paper examines the effects of family history of alcoholism and current alcoho... TC Harford,DA Parker,BF Grant - 《Alcoholism...
Garland M, Hunter DJ, Colditz GA, Spiegelman DL, Manson JE, Stampfer MJ, Willett WC (1999) Alcohol consumption in relation to breast cancer risk in a cohort of United States women 25–42 years of age. Cancer Epidemiol Biomark Prev Publ Am Assoc Cancer Res Cosponsored Am Soc Prev Oncol ...
In about 1840, photography was developed. Then photographers could take picture of people and moving things. That was not simple. The photographers had to carry a lot of film and other machines. But this did not stop them, for example, some in the United States worked so hard. ...