Category Archive for irish cream
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The Strike
This week back in 1827, a chemist based in Stockton-on-Tees, England, made a striking discovery. Learn about John Walker's accidental invention of the friction match, and then light up your night with these brilliant matchstick cocktails. Read more...
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Meter Walk
This Week in 1935, Carl C. Magee joined Benedict Arnold and John Wilkes Booth in the annals of American villainy. The ex-newspaperman invented the "park-o-meter" and proceeded to rake in the hard-earned nickels of Oklahoma City's befuddled residents. His first victim? A priest! Read more...
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Casey's Killjoy
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...
