Category Archive for cherry liqueur
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The Blood & Straw
This week in 1814, the physician who lent his name to one of France's best-known inventions died. Learn about Dr. Guillotin and his "enlightened" death machine, and then drink this custom cocktail 'til your head falls off: Read more...
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The Liquid Propaganda
This week back in 1949, an American judge sentenced Mildred Gillars - better known as "Axis Sally" - to prison. Learn about the All-American gal who became the seductive voice of German propaganda during WWII... then take a swig of bitter drink with a deceptively sweet surface. Read more...
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The Fightin' Words
This week in 1903, Texas' most unlikely Justice of the Peace -- Phantley Roy Bean Jr. -- died. He literally held court in his frontier saloons, so we served ourselves a summons to one of the best cocktail spots in Austin to let another bartender lay down the (liquid) law. Read more...
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Tybee Bomb
This week in 1958, the U.S. military lost an H-bomb. It's still lost... possibly somewhere off the coast of Tybee Island, Georgia. Read more...
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Corrigan's Bluff
This week in 1938, aviator Douglas Corrigan took a fateful wrong turn into the history books. Inspired by Charles Lindbergh, Corrigan pledged to fly his own junker of a plane across the Atlantic. Which he did, despite the efforts of safety regulators... and with some help from what he insisted was the world's worst sense of direction. Read more...
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Three Strikes
On June 3rd, 1888, Ernest Thayer's baseball rhyme "Casey At the Bat" was first published in the San Francisco Examiner. Popularized by vaudeville actor DeWolf Hopper, soon everyone in America was in love with the poem... except the author. Read more...
