Hang on, I’m not quite done with Captain Low just yet. Remember when I said that he understood the power of punch? I wasn’t just referring to the parties that his crew were having below the deck. I have stated that punch brought pirate crews together. But it wasn’t only for a party. During this […]
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This post begins with the following excerpt taken from ‘A General History of Pyrates’ (yes, it is spelled that way), a book written under the pseudonym Captain Charles Johnson. Low takes a Bowl of Punch in his Hand, and drinks to him, saying, Captain Graves, here’s half this to you. But the poor Gentleman being too sensibly touched at the
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On a sunny evening in April 1874 (quite possibly the 1st), a man named Jones marched into New York’s prestigious Delmonico’s asking for the whereabouts of a ‘little man with a small black moustache.’ Just a reminder that this was 15 years before Adolf Hitler was born, so no, he wasn’t looking for him. The
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Twenty years before the Eiffel Tower was built, the city of Paris had another major tourist attraction. Beginning on the 1st of April and continuing through the seven months that followed was the fourth World Exhibition. Except it wasn’t called a World Exhibition. In France, this fair would be referred to as Exhibition Universelle. (I
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Long before the days of overpriced bottles of shitty alcohol, chemical infusions of MDMA, and exclusive VIP rooms that were tucked into the obscure buildings of New York, before there was Miley Cyrus, Fatboy Slim, Madonna or Studio 54, there was another kind of club taking over the city’s social scene. That was the Gentleman’s
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