Old Jake Beam Sour Mash was first distilled in Kentucky when George Washington was president, by descendants of the Böhm family, who immigrated from Germany. After seven generations, the family stall has their hands in the bourbon whisky business, which is now a Japanese holdng company.
Sour mash whiskey differs from bourbon in that all the ingredients in bourbon are ‘from scratch’. Sour mash uses leftovers from a previous batch, much like the starter in sourdough bread.
I guess I don’t see the connection.
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Whiskey is still being distilled at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s longtime Virginia home, using methods appropriate to his era.
I THINK that jtur88 missed my post about Ted Danson, and instead replied to the post by Bullitt. ‘Alignment’ was the connection.
Still in play, post by Elendil’s Heir:
Whiskey is still being distilled at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s longtime Virginia home, using methods appropriate to his era.
https://www.mountvernon.org/the-esta…-mount-vernon/
((OOP: I spent about an hour last night unsuccesfuly trying to come up with a post that would link Ted Danson and binoculars. :p))
In play: English writer Virginia Woolf is considered to be among the most important novelists of the 20th century. She was a key figure in the modernism movement, and a pioneer in the use of stream-of-consciousness in writing; decades after her death, her works were seen as influential in the feminism movement.
Woolf was plagued by emotional issues, depression, and poor health throughout her life. She committed suicide on this date in 1941, by filling her overcoat pockets with stones, and walking into a river near her home.
Much attention has been focused on Virginia Woolf’s emotional issues, but she had a lighthearted side. At age 28 she was part of a group of friends who played a practical joke on the officers of HMS Dreadnought, disguising themselves as members of the Abyssinian royal family for a supposed ceremonial visit. Dreadnought hoax - Wikipedia
She also wrote a humorous ‘biography’ of Flush, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s spaniel, inspired by a new edition, in 1930, of the Brownings’ love letters; she said that ‘the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn’t resist making him a Life.’
Her novel* Orlando: A Biography * (1928) can be summed up as "a high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf’s lover and close friend, the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, it is arguably one of Woolf’s most popular novels: a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. " Orlando: A Biography - Wikipedia
Broken link. Here is one: Distillery · George Washington's Mount Vernon
I wish I’d have known about the distillery. I was at Mount Vernon 2-3 years ago and would have bought some. They only sell it in person, not by mail.
Contrary to popular legend, English businessman Thomas Crapper (1836-1910) did not invent the flush toilet. Crapper did, however, improve on the design of the water closet, including inventing the floating ballcock.
The flushing toilet is believed to have been invented in the 1590s by John Harington, godson to Queen Elizabeth I.
Plumber Thomas Crapper founded the sanitary equipment company, Thomas Crapper & Co., in London. The high quality of Crapper’s products became widely-known. Manhole covers in Westminster Abbey with Crapper’s company name on them have become one of London’s minor tourist attractions.
Image, Thomas Crapper manhole cover: https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/357230/view/thomas-crapper-manhole-cover
According to urban legend, during an underground nuclear blast test in the 1950s, a manhole cover was accidentally launched from its shaft at a sufficient speed to reach escape velocity.
There is a grain of truth to the legend, as, during a blast conducted during Operation Plumbob at the Nevada Test Site in 1957, a steel cap, weighing close to a ton, was blasted free from a shaft. The cap appeared as a blur on a single frame of the film taken during the blast. The cap was never recovered, and scientists hypothesized that it burned up as it fell back through Earth’s atmosphere.
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Alignment was the original, but when I saw that I was ninjaed, I rewrote a line to add the word “show”.
Escape velocity is mass-independent. Regardless of an object’s mass, if it achieves escape velocity, then it will be launched into space. From the surface of the Earth, escape velocity is a little under 7 miles per second. At that speed, you could drive from San Francisco CA to New York City NY in under 8 minutes.
Those 8 minutes, remarkably and coincidentally, is about the amount of time it takes the light from the Sun to travel the 93,000,000 miles to Earth.
Ah, okay. Completely missed that.
Here is a link between Ted Danson and binoculars.
In play: The 1963 movie The Great Escape was based on a 1950 book of the same name. The book was an insider’s account of a mass escape by British and Commonwealth airmen from a German POW camp. 76 men escaped. 73 men were recaptured. 50 of these 73 were shot by the Gestapo.
Per Wiki, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is monarch of sixteen Commonwealth realms: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and the United Kingdom. She is and will be played by Olivia Colman in the most recent and the next season of the award-winning Netflix series The Crown.
For the win!
The first European explorer to visit the Solomon Islands archipelago was Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña. He named the islands “Islas Salomón”, naming them after the wealthy King of Israel in the Old Testament.
Mendaña apparently believed that the islands were the location of the legendary, wealthy port of Ophir, mentioned in several places in the Old Testament; Solomon was said to have regularly received shipments of riches from Ophir.
Wise King Solomon of the Bible’s Old Testament, was also called Jedidiah. His father was King David. The conventional dates of his reign are about 970 to 931 BCE, normally given in alignment with the dates of David’s reign. The Hebrew Bible credits him as the builder of the First Temple in Jerusalem, beginning in the fourth year of his reign.
In 1946 an inscribed pottery shard was found in Tel Aviv dating to the eighth century BC. On it is written the text “gold of Ophir to/for Beth-Horon”.
Ophir has been conjectured to be in The Philippines, India, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and the aforementioned Solomon Islands.
Ophir is a port or region mentioned in the Bible and famous for its wealth. Ophir is mentioned in the books of Genesis (a person), in 1 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Job, Psalms, and Isaiah. It is not mentioned in the New Testament, except for the apocrypha book Cave of Treasures. Variants of Ophir include Ofir, ʼÔp̄îr, Ōpheír, Sōphír, Sōpheír and Souphír.
At the end of episodes of the NPR show “Ask Me Another”, one of the show’s “puzzle gurus” recites the names of some of their staff members as anagrams. The host, Ophira Eisenberg, is “Her ripe begonias.” In-House Musician Jonathan Coulton is “Thou jolt a cannon.” Puzzle Guru John Chaneski is “Oh heck, ninjas” and Puzzle Guru Art Chung is “Narc thug.”