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8 unusual facts about Rum


Al-Rumi

Rûm, a medieval Islamic designation of various areas in Christendom

HNoMS Kjell

For Kjell the 1922 exercise season turned out somewhat unusual as she was deployed against alcohol smugglers on the coast as part of the enforcement of the 1916–1927 Norwegian prohibition.

Margaret Maron

Another series follows the adventures of Judge Deborah Knott, attorney and daughter of an infamous North Carolina bootlegger.

Marion Hutton

Their mother worked a variety of jobs to support the family until she became a successful bootlegger.

RUM-139 VL-ASROC

Design and development of the missile began in 1983 when the Goodyear Aerospace company was contracted by the U.S. Navy to develop a ship-launched anti-submarine missile compatible with the new Mark 41 Vertical Launching System.

The vertical-launched missile first became operational in 1993, with more than 450 having been produced by 2007.

Rum-running

The Gulf of Mexico also teemed with ships running from Mexico and the Bahamas to Galveston, Texas, the Louisiana swamps and Alabama coast.

Rum-running in Windsor

These figures included Billy Sunday who offered a Booze Sermon in hope of inspiring the "water wagon".


1900s in Angola

Portuguese authorities arrested the king of Bailundo after an Ovimbundu celebration in which natives consumed Portuguese rum, allegedly without paying.

1923 in organized crime

September 17 - George Meegan, a Chicago bootlegger allied with the Southside O'Donnell's, and Southside O'Donnell member George Bucher are killed by Frank McErlane.

1988 Añejo Rum 65ers season

November 22: The Rum Masters were booted out of the finals picture, following a 127-118 loss to San Miguel, imports Joe Ward and Tommy Davis combined for 105 points out of the 118 Anejo total output, with Joe Ward hitting 75 points.

A Pair of Brown Eyes

It featured on the band's second album, Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, and was composed by Pogues front man Shane MacGowan, on the melody of "Wild Mountain Thyme", also known as "Will Ye Go Lassie Go," a song by Francis McPeake in a traditional Irish folk style.

Añejo–Purefoods rivalry

In Game 2 of the 1988 All-Filipino championship series, Ramon Fernandez was benched by the Purefoods management after a poor showing in the series opener, Fernandez was not allowed to play for the rest of the series and in Game 4, sat at ringside to watch his teammates lose to Añejo Rum in the finals, some Purefoods fans brought placards to show their support to the former Purefoods playing coach.

Anzac Test

From 2004 until 2008 the match was officially called the Bundaberg Rum League Test, after the principal sponsor, Bundaberg Rum.

Balinese Room

Operated by Sicilian immigrant barbers-turned-bootleggers Sam and Rosario Maceo, the Balinese Room was an elite spot in the 1940s and 1950s (Galveston's open era), featuring entertainment by Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, George Burns, The Marx Brothers and other top acts of the day.

Battle of Sugar Point

However, when he and Sha-Boon-Day-Shkong traveled to the nearby Indian village of Onigum on September 15, they were seized by U.S. Deputy Marshal Robert Morrison and U.S. Indian Agent Arthur M. Tinker as witnesses to a bootlegging operation and were going to be transported to Duluth (Bugonaygeshig had previously testified at another bootlegging trial in the port city on Lake Superior five months earlier).

Black Tot Day

This led to a debate in the House of Commons on the evening of January 28, 1970, now referred to as the 'Great Rum Debate', started by James Wellbeloved, MP for Erith and Crayford, who believed that the ration should not be removed.

Boulevard du Rhum

Boulevard du Rhum also known as Rum Runners is a 1971 French-Italian-Spanish adventure film directed by Robert Enrico and produced by Alain Poiré.

Bundaberg Rum

The Bundaberg Distilling Company owns its own cola-producing facility, which supplies the cola for its ready-to-drink Bundaberg Rum and Cola products.

Carnival Glory

During that time, the RedFrog Rum Bar, Blue Iguana Tequila Bar, Alchemy Bar, EA Sports Bar, Guy Fieri’s Burger Joint, Blue Iguana Cantina, Punchliners Comedy Club & Brunch presented by George Lopez, Hasbro, The Game Show, Playlist Productions, DJ IRIE were added.

Christy Gibson

During her time with Sony Music Thailand, Gibson also recorded an album jointly with Swedish luk tung singer Jonas Anderson, called Rum-tone, Rum-thai.

Cuisine of Antebellum America

As some of the privateers became pirates and buccaneers, their fondness for rum remained, the association between the two only being strengthened by literary works such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

Danny Birt

"Booty Haul" in the anthology Rum and Runestones (Dragon Moon Press, 2010)

Danny Walsh

Daniel L. "Danny" Walsh (c. 1893-February 2, 1933?) was an organized crime figure in Providence, Rhode Island involved in bootlegging during Prohibition.

Discrediting tactic

Cleveland's defeat of his opponent, James Blaine may have been helped by another discrediting tactic used against him which seriously backfired, namely the assertion that Cleveland's party was that of "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" (the latter two referring to Roman Catholicism and the American Civil War).

Don Q

In September 2011, the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences awarded Don Q Gran Añejo a five-star rating, something they "don't award to just any rum...In fact they found only one worthy enough of this honor: DonQ Gran Añejo...Gran Añejo is the first rum ever to receive this rare distinction, reserved for the greatest achievements in travel, hospitality products and services.

Grog

The word originally referred to a drink made with water or "small beer" (a weak beer) and rum, which British Vice Admiral Edward Vernon introduced into the Royal Navy on 21 August 1740.

Heavy Young Heathens

Heavy Young Heathens composed "Really Big Stars" for Bacardi's Oak Heart Rum North American commercial campaign.

Hernando Calvo Ospina

In January 2005 the documentary The Secret of the Bat: Bacardi between Rum and Revolution where Calvo Ospina took part received the Bronze World Medal at the New York Film Festival.

Hill's Absinth

The father and son operation prospered producing specialties such as Absinth, Radigast (herbal liqueur named after the Slavic God of War) 160 proof 'Alpsky Rum' (Alp Style Rum), and Zubrovka (Bison Grass Vodka), Bison Grass handpicked from the Gomel Region in Belarus.

History of money

In the early British colony of New South Wales, rum emerged quite soon after settlement as the most monetary of goods.

Kate Tempest

She toured Europe, Australia and America with her band 'Sound Of Rum' and worked with organisations such as Yale university, the BBC, Apples and Snakes, The Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Kaykhusraw III

The young Kaykhusraw became no more than a figurehead and played no part in the events of his reign, which were dominated first by the Pervane and later by the Mongol vizier of Rum, Fakhr al-Din Ali.

Kopek

Sa'd al-Din Köpek (died 1240), court administrator under Seljuq Sultans of Rum

Leopoldo María Panero

#The quote that headlines the text: Fifteen men over the Dead Man's Chest/ Fifteen men over the Dead Man's Chest/ Yahoo! And a bottle of rum!, which is the song that the pirates sing in Robert L. Stevenson's "The treasure island" (evidently, there is also a film adaptation).

Madiz

Following his death, she was purchased in 1913 by Sir George Bullough, owner of the Scottish island of Rùm.

Mayabeque Province

The province also has two large Havana Club rum factories, power plants, and sugar mills; as well as important scientific institutions and an agricultural science university.

Mesud

Mesud I, sultan of the Seljuqs of Rum from 1116 until his death in 1156

Pickwick Cricket Club

As a result of the upgrading of Kensington Oval for the 2007 Cricket World Cup, in 2009 Pickwick developed a new home ground—Foursquare Oval—in Saint Philip, on land donated by Sir David Seale, the owner of the Foursquare rum distillery.

Randy Wayne White

A resident of Southwest Florida since 1972, he currently lives on Pine Island, Florida, where he is active in South Florida civic affairs and with the restaurant Doc Ford's Sanibel Rum Bar & Grill on nearby Sanibel Island.

Red Rum

Merseyrail has named one of their trains in Red Rum's honour as part of a Merseyside Legends programme.

and comedian Lee Mack, then a stable boy who had his first riding lesson on Red Rum.

Red Rum and jockey Brian Fletcher, however, made up the ground on the final stretch and, two strides from the finishing post, pipped the tiring Crisp to win by three-quarters of a length in what is often considered one of the greatest Grand Nationals in history.

Rob Inglis

His plays include Voyage of the Endeavour (1965), based on the journal of Captain James Cook; Canterbury Tales (1968), dramatised readings from Chaucer; Erf (1971), a one-actor play about the twenty-first century; A Rum Do (1970), a musical based on the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie; and Men Who Shaped Australia, for Better or for Worse (1968), a one-actor play dealing with significant historical figures.

Rusudan of Georgia

Rusudan made an alliance with the neighbouring Seljuk rulers of Rüm and Ahlat, but the Georgians were routed by the Khwarezmians at Bolnisi, before the allies could arrive (1228).

Santa Cruz del Norte

This is the main home of the Havana Club rum distillery; all dark varieties being produced in Santa Cruz del Norte.

Selim I

In 1514, to reduce the chances of attack during his march to Iran, Selim I sent his officials to the province of Rum, in north-central Anatolia, with orders to register by name anyone identified as Qizilbash, including members of the Alevi population.

Ted Mulry

Over the next few years they achieved a string of hit singles including a rocked up version of the old jazz song, "Darktown Strutters' Ball", "Crazy", "Jamaica Rum" and "My Little Girl".

The Locked Door

It is aboard a "rum boat", a ship that sails beyond the 12 mile limit to get around the restrictions of Prohibition.

Ventura County Sheriff's Department

In the 1974 film Chinatown, Roy Jenson plays Claude Mulvihill, a hired tough guy and former Ventura County Sheriff who had been on the take from rum runners during Prohibition.

William Julius Eggeling

His management plan for Rùm became a prototype of its kind, and was published in the first volume of the Journal of Applied Ecology in 1964.


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