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  1. Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6

    Drinks have had a closer connection to the flow of history than is generally acknowledged, and a greater influence on its course. Understanding the ramifications of who drank what, and why, and where they got it from, requires the traversal of many disparate and otherwise unrelated fields: the histories of agriculture, philosophy, religion, medicine, technology, and commerce.
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  2. Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6

    Six beverages in particular-beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola-chart the flow of world history. Three contain alcohol, and three contain caffeine, but what they all have in common is that each one was the defining drink during a pivotal historical period, from antiquity to the present day.
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  3. Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6

    There were no musicians or dancers, for Plato believed that educated men ought to be capable of entertaining themselves by "speaking and listening in turns in an orderly manner.
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  4. Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6

    THE TWENTIETH CENTURY was a period defined by the struggle for individual political, economic, and personal liberty against various forms of oppression, and marked by war, genocide, and the threat of nuclear annihilation.
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  5. Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6

    Descendants of de Clieu's original plant were also proliferating in the region, in Haiti, Cuba, Costa Rica, and Venezuela. Ultimately, Brazil became the world's dominant coffee supplier, leaving Arabia far behind.
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  6. Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6

    When George Washington ran for election to Virginia's local assembly, the House of Burgesses, in 1758, his campaign team handed out twenty-eight gallons of rum, fifty gallons of rum punch, thirty-four of wine, forty-six of beer, and two of cider-in a county with only 391 voters.
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  7. Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6

    Although it is no longer customary to offer visitors a straw through which to drink from a communal vat of beer, today tea or coffee may be offered from a shared pot, or a glass of wine or spirits from a shared bottle. And when drinking alcohol in a social setting, the clinking of glasses symbolically reunites the glasses into a single vessel of shared liquid. These are traditions with very ancient origins.
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  8. Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6

    When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies
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  9. Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6

    Anyone who started a quarrel had to atone for it by buying a dish of coffee for everyone present.
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  10. Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6

    There is no hope of any major increase in scientific knowledge by grafting or adding the new on top of the old," Bacon declared in his book The New Logic, published in 1620. "The restoration of the sciences must start from the bottom-most foundations-unless we prefer to go round in perpetual circles at a contemptibly slow rate.
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  11. Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6

    the Coca-Cola Company is the biggest single supplier of such drinks. Globally, the company supplies 3 percent of humanity's total liquid intake.
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  12. Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6

    Stronger! stronger! grow they all, Who for Coca-Cola call. Brighter! brighter! thinkers think, When they Coca-Cola drink. -Coca-Cola advertising slogan, 1896
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