Editor’s note (2/17/21): This 7 days, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson filed a federal lawsuit towards white supremacist and militia teams ex-president Donald Trump and various of Trump’s associates, for violating the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act by instigating and taking part in the fatal mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. […]
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The end of domestic wine in 17th century Japan
Scientists from Kumamoto University (Japan) have observed an Edo period doc that evidently suggests the Hosokawa clan, rulers of the Kokura Domain (modern day-working day Fukuoka Prefecture), completely stopped creating wine in 1632, the year prior to the shogunate purchased them to move to the Higo Domain (now Kumamoto Prefecture). […]