Coffee and tea travel through history in global culture
The text traces coffee’s spread from the Arab world to Europe and America, noting debates on its morality and bans, the rise of coffee houses, and penalties including death in some regions. It contrasts tea’s antiquity in China with its ritual tea ceremony, English adoption, and colonial protest over the tea tax in Boston harbor.
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Gabriel
Mohammed
Europe
Charles II
England
America
Scandinavia
China
Japan
Boston Harbor
Snow tires with studs cut accidents in New Jersey study
An independent survey by suburban New Jersey police departments shows that from Dec 1, 1971 to Apr 1, 1972 more than 90 percent of cars in accidents lacked studded snow tires. The study covered areas where at least half of motorists used studs.
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New Jersey
Union Carbide opens $300 million complex in Ponce Puerto Rico
Union Carbide announces completion of a new petro chemicals complex in Ponce Puerto Rico costing 300 million dollars. It is the largest single project in its field with annual capacity of over three billion pounds. President William S. Sneath says the plant will not fully break even in 1972 but turned profitable in Q3 and is expected to continue that trend.
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Union Carbide Corporation
Ponce
Puerto Rico
William S. Sneath
Union Carbide
Nashua man crafts 56 link wooden chain
Ninety two year old Ed Simpson of Nashua completed an unbroken chain of 56 wooden links carved from bass wood two by six. He began the project two years ago and finished it with two wooden hooks on each end.
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Ed Simpson
Nashua
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