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Benjamin Bristow

He prosecuted the so-called "Whiskey Ring," which was headquartered in St. Louis, and which, beginning in 1870 or 1871, had defrauded the federal government out of a large part of its rightful revenue from the distillation of whiskey.

Bomberger's Distillery

The complex, located near Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania represents the transformation of whiskey distilling from an agricultural enterprise into a large-scale industry.

Bottle wall

Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, has a bottle house, made from over 3,000 whiskey bottles, that it uses as an "Indian Trader" store today.

Broadford, Pennsylvania

Broadford was formerly the site of an A. Overholt and Company Distillery, maker of Old Overholt Rye Whiskey once run by Pittsburgh industrialist H. Clay Frick.

Colourbox

After a handful of singles, Colourbox's first full-length studio album - also self-titled - followed in August 1985, which further refined the band's diverse palette, mixing sample-splattered power-punk instrumentals with elegiac piano pieces ("Just Give 'em Whiskey" and "Sleepwalker" respectively), commercial pop ("The Moon Is Blue" and "Suspicion") and more reggae and soul covers (U-Roy's "Say You" and The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hanging On").

Dame-Nation

In February 2010, Dame-Nation featured Ambre Lake (a winning contestant from VH1's Rock of Love with Bret Michaels, as well as a cast member of Reese Witherspoon's Sweet Home Alabama), High Gloss Black, SAGE4, F.H.O.D., Deadmanswake, Whiskey Blonde, Losing Scarlet, The Hannah Ford Band and The Pain-Kurst Girls at the Portage Theatre.

David Bradford

David Bradford House, historic house in Pennsylvania, USA, home of David Bradford, a leader of the Whiskey Rebellion

De Selby

De Selby also appears in O'Brien's The Dalkey Archive, in which he develops a substance ("D.M.P.") capable of extracting all oxygen from an airtight enclosure, of disrupting the sequentiality of time, and of producing fine mature whiskey in a week.

Diandra Soares

In 1995,she was crowned as Miss.Bombay and that helped her to get contracts from various leading brands like Dinesh Suitings, VIP Lingeries, Tillsbury whiskey and also paved her way to the most prestigious ramp shows in town.She has walked for many international fashion shows in her career which were conducted by Gucci, Leonard Paris, Emanuel Ungaro,Sonia Rykiel, Miami Fashion Show etc.She is currently one of the leading models of the nation.

Edson Bradley

(May 9, 1852 – June 20, 1935) was president of Kentucky whiskey distiller W.A. Gaines and Company of Frankfort, Kentucky.

Freeway Phantom

On December 28, 1938, Askins—then a 19-year old student and member of the science club at Miner Teachers College—served cyanide-laced whiskey to five prostitutes at a brothel, resulting in the death of 31-year old Ruth McDonald.

Geographical indication

Finally, the United States has a long tradition of placing relatively strict limitations on its native forms of whiskey; particularly notable are the requirements for labeling a product "straight whiskey" and the requirement, enforced by federal law and several international agreements (NAFTA among them) that a product labeled Tennessee whiskey be a straight Bourbon whiskey produced in the state of Tennessee.

George Stagg

George T. Stagg, a limited-production bourbon whiskey distributed by Buffalo Trace Distillery

Hated in the Nation

According to Board's liner notes for Allin's posthumous studio album Brutality and Bloodshed for All (1993), Allin arrived at the studio carrying a big bottle of Jim Beam whiskey that was already about seven-eights empty, and in a rather visibly disheveled condition from not having bathed or cut his hair in quite some time.

Highball

The Online Etymology Dictionary suggests that the name originated around 1898 and probably derives from ball meaning a "drink of whiskey" and high because it is served in a tall glass.

HNoMS Hitra

It was not until 1981, when the Soviet submarine U 137 (Whiskey on the rocks) ran aground, that S. Moen, the director of the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten saw the abandoned Hitra in a newspaper image.

Iced coffee

In the Salento region of Puglia, this was perfected by brewing the espresso freshly, adding the desired amount of sugar and finally pouring it in a whiskey glass filled with ice cubes right before being served, known as Caffè in ghiaccio, coffee on the rocks.

James Crow

James C. Crow (fl. 19th century), Scottish creator of the sour mash process for making Bourbon Whiskey

Joe Charboneau

Other stories emerged about how he did his own dental work and fixed a broken nose with a pair of pliers and a few shots of Jack Daniel's whiskey, stood out; by mid-season, Charboneau was the subject of a song, "Go Joe Charboneau", that reached #3 on the local charts.

Jon Marks

He played with Kid Martyn's Ragtime Band at the first two New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festivals in 1968 and 1969 and at Louis Armstrong's 70th Birthday celebration, "Hello Louis", in 1970 when he was photographed alongside Louis Armstrong and his enormous birthday cake, and whiskey and bourbon fountains.

José Antonio Remón Cantera

Recently declassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency reveal that Remón might have been killed on the orders of Lucky Luciano over a dispute involving a shipment of heroin and whiskey, which Remón allegedly seized in a port in colon, from Luciano's organization.

KRIS-TV

A commercial for Crown Royal whiskey aired on the station in 1996 featuring a puppy with a diploma and another carrying a Crown Royal bag in its mouth.

Mill Pond Falls

At that time, Newington was still a part of the town of Wethersfield and its economy was based on the production of pipestaves, metal rings that cover whiskey barrels.

Mom's Apple Pie

Venues included a wide array of college campuses, clubs, concert halls, the Whiskey A-Go-Go in Los Angeles and Madison Square Garden.

Nancy Whiskey

She also recorded several singles for Oriole Records in the late 1950s, and released an album, The Intoxicating Miss Whiskey.

New Market, Maryland

John Vincent Atanasoff, Bulgarian-American inventor, created the first binary computer, Atanasoff–Berry Computer, writing the concept in 1937 on a cocktail napkin after having a few glasses of scotch whiskey.

Okolehao

While the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives once recognized okolehao as a unique class, like vodka, gin, bourbon, tequila, whiskey, liqueur, etc., it is now recognized as a distilled specialty spirit (DSS), which requires the producer or distiller to include the exact ingredients and general formula on the label.

Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

The parish has five other sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including Woodland Plantation, which has been depicted on the label of Southern Comfort whiskey since the 1930s.

Seaview Terrace

In 1907, whiskey millionaire Edson Bradley built a French-Gothic mansion on the south side of Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. It covered more than half a city block, and included a Gothic chapel with seating for 150, a large ballroom, an art gallery, and a 500-seat theatre — 90 feet by 120 feet, and several stories tall, completed in 1911 — known as Aladdin's Palace.

Slim Harpo

In 2012 a Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey Whiskey commercial featured Harpo's song "I'm a King Bee" covered by San Francisco blues band The Stone Foxes.

Southern Comfort

In an episode of The Thirsty Traveler entitled "A River of Whiskey," spirits historian Chris Morris describes the original recipe of Southern Comfort.

Tarun Arora

He was seen in advertisement campaigns for brands like Raymond, Westside, Kwality Walls, McDowell’s whiskey, and LG, and walked the runway for several designers.

Tennessee whiskey

Jack Daniels, George Dickel and Collier & McKeel Tennessee whiskeys undergo a filtering stage called the Lincoln County Process, in which the whiskey is filtered through (or steeped in) a thick layer of maple charcoal before it is put into new charred oak barrels for aging.

The Gerry Ryan Show

These included the scenery, Guinness, potatoes, the seas and coastline, whiskey, Barry's and Lyon's tea, Kimberley and Mikado biscuits, the smell of turf, red hair, homemade brown bread, oysters, Baileys coffee, hurling, Irish comedians, Irish history, the River Shannon, Podge and Rodge, Irish literature, bacon and cabbage, Irish stew and the GAA.

The Good Rats

During the following years, the Rats performed at venues such as Madison Square Garden, The Philadelphia Spectrum, The Nassau Coliseum, The Hammersmith Odeon in England, and New York’s Central Park, as well as showcase rooms such as The Bottom Line (Manhattan), My Father’s Place (Roslyn, New York), Whiskey a Go Go (Los Angeles) and The Paradise Room (Boston).

The Irish Filmography

Popeye Doyle (played by Gene Hackman) in The French Connection likewise qualifies as an Irish character; in the movie Doyle remarks 'kiss my Irish ass!' after he has got drunk on whiskey with a friendly French waiter.

Tolomeo Mwansa

He kept goal for the dominant Wanderers side of the ‘60s and played alongside players like Samuel ‘Zoom’ Ndhlovu, Penius ‘Kapenta’ Chirwa, Joseph ‘Kanono’ Musonda, Dickson ‘Barb-Wire’ Makwaza, George ‘Wikolo’ Sikazwe, Patrick ‘Whiskey’ Nkole, Ken Simwanza, Bedford ‘Mayo,’ Kaputo, Willie ‘Orlando’ Kunda and Elijah ‘Kapilipili’ Mwale.

Type XXI submarine

The Type XXI design directly influenced advanced post-war submarines, the GUPPY improvements to the American Gato, Balao, and Tench class submarines and the Soviet submarine projects designated by NATO as the Whiskey and Zulu classes.

University of Ulster at Coleraine

The Causeway Coast is an area of outstanding beauty, which boasts the Giant's Causeway (UNESCO World Heritage site), the oldest whiskey distillery in the world (Old Bushmills Distillery), blue flag beaches and championship golf courses.

Westinghouse Advanced Energy Systems Division

Eventually, the Large Distillery was sold to The National Distillery Company, which retired the Large label but continued to market the whiskey as Old Overholt.

Whiskey Bay

Whiskey Bay (also known as Bad Country) is an upcoming film starring Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Amy Smart, and Tom Berenger.

Whiskey Gap, Alberta

In 1976 hundreds of people came to Whiskey Gap for the production of Terrence Malick's period film Days of Heaven.

Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well

"Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well" is a 1945 song performed by Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra.

Wisakedjak

It was sometimes Anglicized as Whiskey Jack, which became an alternate name for the Gray Jay.

Yellow Card Man

In the recent Stephen King novel, 11/22/63, a character is called the Yellow Card Man, and is later found having slashed his own throat with a broken whiskey bottle.


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