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Topic: Gin Act


  
  Gin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gin (Sometimes referred to as Mother's Ruin) is a spirit, or strong alcoholic beverage.
Dutch gin, known as jenever, is a distinctly different drink from English-style gin; it is distilled with barley and sometimes aged in wood, giving it a slight resemblance to whisky.
Gin, though, was blamed for various social and medical problems, and it may have been a factor in the high death rate that caused London's previously increasing population to remain stable.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gin   (1333 words)

  
 A History of Drug Use & Prohibition
Even on the battlefield he was fond of surprising men in the act of smoking, when he would punish them by beheading, hanging, quartering or crushing their hands and feed....
Along with this emotional and intellectual elevation, there is also increased muscular energy; and the capacity to act, and to bear fatigue, is greatly augmented.
Addicts who are broke act as *agent provocateurs* for the peddlers, being rewarded by gifts of heroin or credit for supplies.
www.lectlaw.com /files/drg09.htm   (4861 words)

  
 A History of Drug Use and Prohibition
1690 The "Act for the Encouraging of the Distillation of Brandy and Spirits from Corn" is enacted in England.
1906 The first Pure Food and Drug Act becomes law; until its enactment, it was possible to buy, in stores or by mail order medicines containing morphine, cocaine, or heroin, and without their being so labeled.
1956 The Narcotics Control Act in enacted; it provides the death penalty, if recommended by the jury, for the sale of heroin to a person under eighteen by one over eighteen.
www.sodaknorml.org /history.htm   (5905 words)

  
 Useful dates in British history
Act of Parliament – burials to be in woollen
Longitude Act: prize of £20,000 offered to the inventor of a workable method of determining a ship's longitude (won by John Harrison in 1773 for his chronometer).
To be buried under this Act normally means that the person buried was a non-conformist; the burial service was performed by a Non-Conformist minister, but in a Church of England church, as the burial was going to take place in the churchyard.
www.johnowensmith.co.uk /histdate   (11252 words)

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