South Carolina Bourbon Review - Six and Twenty Distillery
This week we went back to South Carolina to try some additional bourbon whiskeys. We stayed with one distillery this time, and two very different offerings in an Oat whiskey, and a 5 grain bourbon whiskey.
The Bradford Watermelon - Making It Grow
The heirloom Bradford Watermelon, long thought extinct, is being reintroduced to chefs, gardeners, and food enthusiasts around the world! Clemson Extension Agent and Host of Making It Grow Amanda McNulty visits Nat Bradford, a direct descendent of the original grower, in Sumter, SC. This story will follow the watermelons from the field on it's journey to become various products. We first travel to The Culinary Institute of the Carolinas at the Greenville Technical College where it is processed into molasses. Then from there we follow the watermelon rinds to Tuxedo, NC where they are pickled by Green River Picklers. Back on the farm we watch the family juice the melons for Six & Twenty Distillery in Piedmont, SC to use it for Watermelon Brandy and also for Carolina Bauernhaus Ales in Anderson, SC to use it for a sour beer. Lastly we follow the watermelon and the other products to Motor Supply in Columbia, SC where Chef Wes Fulmer uses it to create special dishes.
George Washington | Wikipedia audio article
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George Washington
00:02:30 1 Early years (1732–1752)
00:08:04 2 Early military career (1752–1758)
00:10:14 2.1 French and Indian War
00:17:24 3 Marriage, civilian life and political beginnings (1759–1774)
00:22:38 3.1 American Revolution
00:24:44 4 Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
00:27:40 4.1 Quebec, Boston, and Long Island
00:33:08 4.2 Crossing the Delaware
00:35:52 4.3 Trenton campaign
00:38:53 4.4 Brandywine, Germantown, and Saratoga
00:41:55 4.5 Valley Forge, Monmouth, and Southern campaigns
00:45:59 4.6 Sullivan expedition and Hudson River
00:47:24 4.7 West Point espionage
00:49:33 4.8 Yorktown victory, peace treaty
00:52:43 4.9 Resignation
00:56:00 5 Early republic (1784–1789)
00:56:12 5.1 Military retirement
00:57:04 5.2 Constitutional Convention
00:59:16 5.3 First presidential election
01:00:38 6 Presidency (1789–1797)
01:04:00 6.1 Cabinet and executive departments
01:05:32 6.2 Domestic issues
01:06:56 6.2.1 National Bank
01:08:46 6.2.2 Jefferson–Hamilton feud
01:10:43 6.2.3 Whiskey Rebellion
01:12:49 6.3 Foreign affairs
01:15:03 6.4 Indian affairs
01:18:50 6.5 Second term
01:22:43 6.6 Farewell Address
01:26:02 7 Retirement (1797–1799)
01:28:35 7.1 Final days
01:32:38 8 Burial
01:34:18 9 Personal traits
01:36:19 10 Religion and the Enlightenment
01:40:16 11 Slavery
01:43:35 12 Historical reputation and legacy
01:46:33 12.1 Papers
01:47:18 12.2 Monuments and memorials
01:47:46 12.3 Postage and Currency
01:48:16 13 See also
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George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was one of the Founding Fathers and the first President of the United States (1789–1797). He commanded Patriot forces in the new nation's vital American Revolutionary War and led them to victory over the British. Washington also presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which established the new federal government. For his manifold leadership he has been called the Father of His Country.Washington was born to a successful family of planters and slaveholders in colonial Virginia. He had educational opportunities and at age seventeen launched a successful career as a land surveyor. He then became a leader of the Virginia militia in the French and Indian War. During the Revolutionary War he was a delegate to the Continental Congress which unanimously appointed him commander-in-chief of the Army, leading an allied campaign to victory at the Siege of Yorktown which ended the conflict. Once victory was in hand, in 1783 he resigned as commander-in-chief, declining further authority and power out of his devotion to republicanism.
As the country's premier statesman, Washington was unanimously elected President by the Electoral College in the first two national elections. He promoted and oversaw implementation of a strong, well-financed national government, but remained impartial in the fierce rivalry between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. When the French Revolution plunged Europe into war, Washington proclaimed a policy of neutrality while sanctioning the controversial Jay Treaty. He set numerous precedents that have endured, such as the cabinet advisory system, the inaugural address, and his acceptance of the Congressional title The President of the United States. His Farewell Address strongly warned against political partisanship, sectionalism, and involvement in foreign wars.
Washington owned slaves throughout his life from age 11, but became increasingly troubled by slavery and freed his slaves in his will. He was a member of the Anglican Church and the Freemasons, and he urged tolerance for all religions in his roles as general and President. Upon his death, he was famously eulogized as first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. Washington has been widely memorialized by monuments, art, places, stamps, and currency, and he has been consistently ranked by scholars among the four greatest American presidents.
Jacksonville, Florida | Wikipedia audio article
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Jacksonville, Florida
00:02:25 1 History
00:02:33 1.1 Early history
00:05:13 1.2 Founding and 19th century
00:07:36 1.3 20th and 21st centuries
00:07:46 1.3.1 1900 to 1939
00:10:12 1.3.2 1940 to 1979
00:13:48 1.3.3 1980 to present
00:15:23 2 Geography
00:15:32 2.1 Cityscape
00:15:41 2.2 Topography
00:17:29 2.3 Architecture
00:19:30 2.4 Neighborhoods
00:20:27 2.5 Climate
00:24:27 2.6 Parks
00:25:12 2.6.1 National parks
00:25:39 2.6.2 State parks
00:26:07 2.6.3 City parks
00:31:30 2.6.4 Other
00:32:01 3 Demographics
00:38:08 3.1 Religion
00:40:42 4 Economy
00:42:27 4.1 Banking and financial services
00:44:44 4.2 Logistics
00:46:55 4.3 Media and technology
00:50:34 4.4 Military and defense
00:53:41 5 Culture
00:53:49 5.1 Leisure and entertainment
00:59:24 5.2 Literature, film and television
01:02:05 5.3 Museums and art galleries
01:05:35 5.4 Music
01:07:45 5.5 Sports
01:09:47 6 Government and politics
01:09:57 6.1 Government
01:13:02 6.2 Politics
01:14:39 7 Education
01:14:48 7.1 Primary and secondary education
01:16:33 7.2 Colleges and universities
01:17:55 7.3 Public libraries
01:19:30 8 Infrastructure
01:19:39 8.1 Transportation
01:19:47 8.1.1 Roadways and bridges
01:23:00 8.1.2 Transit system
01:24:29 8.1.3 Modal characteristics
01:25:35 8.1.4 Rail
01:26:43 8.1.5 Airports
01:27:45 8.1.6 Seaports
01:29:50 8.2 Utilities
01:30:58 8.3 Health
01:32:02 9 Notable people
01:32:11 10 Sister cities
01:32:25 11 See also
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Jacksonville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Florida and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968. Consolidation gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits. With an estimated population of 892,062 as of 2017, Jacksonville is also the most populous city in the southeastern United States. The Jacksonville metropolitan area has a population of 1,631,488 and is the fourth largest in Florida.Jacksonville is centered on the banks of the St. Johns River in the First Coast region of northeast Florida, about 25 miles (40 km) south of the Georgia state line and 340 miles (550 km) north of Miami. The Jacksonville Beaches communities are along the adjacent Atlantic coast. The area was originally inhabited by the Timucua people, and in 1564 was the site of the French colony of Fort Caroline, one of the earliest European settlements in what is now the continental United States. Under British rule, settlement grew at the narrow point in the river where cattle crossed, known as Wacca Pilatka to the Seminole and the Cow Ford to the British. A platted town was established there in 1822, a year after the United States gained Florida from Spain; it was named after Andrew Jackson, the first military governor of the Florida Territory and seventh President of the United States.
Harbor improvements since the late 19th century have made Jacksonville a major military and civilian deep-water port. Its riverine location facilitates Naval Station Mayport, Naval Air Station Jacksonville, the U.S. Marine Corps Blount Island Command, and the Port of Jacksonville, Florida's third largest seaport. Jacksonville's military bases and the nearby Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay form the third largest military presence in the United States. Significant factors in the local economy include services such as banking, insurance, healthcare and logistics. As with much of Florida, tourism is important to the Jacksonville area, particularly tourism related to golf. People from Jacksonville may be called Jacksonvillians or Jaxsons (also spelled Jaxons).
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Huguenots | Wikipedia audio article
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Huguenots (; French: Les huguenots [yɡ(ə)no]) are an ethnoreligious group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed tradition.
The term has its origin in early 16th century France. It was frequently used in reference to those of the Reformed Church of France from the time of the Protestant Reformation. Huguenots were French Protestants who held to the Reformed tradition of Protestantism, while the populations of Alsace, Moselle and Montbéliard were mainly German Lutherans. In his Encyclopedia of Protestantism, Hans Hillerbrand claimed that on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, the Huguenot community included as much as 10% of the French population, but it declined to 7–8% by around 1600 and even further after the return of heavy persecution in 1685 with Louis XIV's Edict of Fontainebleau.
Huguenot numbers peaked near an estimated two million by 1562, concentrated mainly in the southern and western parts of the Kingdom of France. As Huguenots gained influence and more openly displayed their faith, Catholic hostility grew. A series of religious conflicts followed, known as the French Wars of Religion, fought intermittently from 1562 to 1598. The Huguenots were led by Jeanne d'Albret, her son, the future Henry IV (who would later convert to Catholicism to become king) and the princes of Condé. The wars ended with the Edict of Nantes, which granted the Huguenots substantial religious, political and military autonomy.
Huguenot rebellions in the 1620s prompted the abolition of their political and military privileges. They retained the religious provisions of the Edict of Nantes until the rule of Louis XIV, who gradually increased persecution of Protestantism until he issued the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685), ultimately ending any legal recognition of Protestantism in France and forcing the Huguenots to either convert or flee in a wave of violent dragonnades. Louis XIV laid claim that the French Huguenot population was reduced from about 800,000 to 900,000 adherents down to just 1,000 to 1,500; although he overexaggerated the reduction, the dragonnades certainly were devastating for the French Protestant community. Nevertheless, the remaining Huguenots faced continued persecution under Louis XV. At the time of Louis XV's death in 1774, Calvinism had been nearly eliminated from France. Persecution of Protestants officially ended with the Edict of Versailles, signed by Louis XVI in 1787. Two years later, with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789, Protestants gained equal rights as citizens.The bulk of Huguenot émigrés relocated to Protestant states such as England and Wales, the Channel Islands, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, the Dutch Republic, the Electorate of Brandenburg and Electorate of the Palatinate in the Holy Roman Empire, the Duchy of Prussia, as well as majority Catholic but Protestant-controlled Ireland. They also fled to the Dutch Cape Colony in South Africa, the Dutch East Indies, the Caribbean, New Netherland and several of the English colonies in North America. A few families also went to Orthodox Russia and Catholic Quebec.
By now, most Huguenots have been assimilated into various societies and cultures, but remnant communities of Camisards in the Cévennes, most Reformed members of the United Protestant Church of France, French members of the largely German Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine and the Huguenot diaspora in England and Australia all still retain their beliefs and Huguenot designation.
Huguenot | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:06 1 Etymology
00:08:24 2 Symbol
00:08:53 3 Demographics
00:13:23 4 Emigration and diaspora
00:14:35 5 History
00:14:45 5.1 Origins
00:18:00 5.2 Criticism and conflict with the Catholic Church
00:20:14 5.3 Reformation and growth
00:21:34 5.4 Wars of religion
00:22:46 5.5 Civil wars
00:24:15 5.6 St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
00:25:22 5.7 Edict of Nantes
00:28:29 5.8 Edict of Fontainebleau
00:31:13 5.9 End of persecution
00:32:21 5.10 Right of return to France in the 19th and 20th centuries
00:33:54 5.11 Modern times
00:36:31 6 Exodus
00:36:58 6.1 Early emigration to colonies
00:38:08 6.2 South Africa
00:41:21 6.3 North America
00:50:49 6.3.1 Spoken language
00:51:30 6.4 Netherlands
00:55:20 6.5 Wales
00:55:58 6.6 England
01:00:26 6.7 Ireland
01:02:36 6.8 Germany and Scandinavia
01:05:51 7 Effects of the exodus
01:07:51 8 1985 apology
01:08:26 9 Legacy
01:08:40 9.1 France
01:09:27 9.2 United States
01:12:13 9.3 England
01:13:21 9.4 Prussia
01:13:47 9.5 Ireland
01:14:04 9.6 South Africa
01:14:40 9.7 Australia
01:15:34 10 See also
01:16:37 11 Notes
01:16:46 12 Further reading
01:21:17 12.1 In French
01:22:10 13 External links
01:23:12 13.1 Texts
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Huguenots ( HEW-gə-nots, also UK: -nohz, French: [yɡ(ə)no]) were a religious group of French Protestants.
Huguenots were French protestants who held to the Reformed tradition of Protestantism. The term has its origin in early-16th-century France. It was frequently used in reference to those of the Reformed Church of France from the time of the Protestant Reformation. By contrast, the Protestant populations of eastern France, in Alsace, Moselle, and Montbéliard were mainly German Lutherans.
In his Encyclopedia of Protestantism, Hans Hillerbrand said that, on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, the Huguenot community included as much as 10% of the French population. By 1600 it had declined to 7–8%, and was reduced further after the return of severe persecution in 1685 under Louis XIV's Edict of Fontainebleau.
The Huguenots were believed to be concentrated among the population in the southern and western parts of the Kingdom of France. As Huguenots gained influence and more openly displayed their faith, Catholic hostility grew. A series of religious conflicts followed, known as the French Wars of Religion, fought intermittently from 1562 to 1598. The Huguenots were led by Jeanne d'Albret, her son, the future Henry IV (who would later convert to Catholicism in order to become king), and the princes of Condé. The wars ended with the Edict of Nantes, which granted the Huguenots substantial religious, political and military autonomy.
Huguenot rebellions in the 1620s resulted in the abolition of their political and military privileges. They retained the religious provisions of the Edict of Nantes until the rule of Louis XIV, who gradually increased persecution of Protestantism until he issued the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685). This ended legal recognition of Protestantism in France and the Huguenots were forced either to convert to Catholicism (possibly as Nicodemites) or flee as refugees; they were subject to violent dragonnades. Louis XIV claimed that the French Huguenot population was reduced from about 800,000 to 900,000 adherents to just 1,000 to 1,500. He exaggerated the decline, but the dragonnades were devastating for the French Protestant community.
The remaining Huguenots faced continued persecution under Louis XV. By the time of his death in 1774, Calvinism had been nearly eliminated from France. Persecution of Protestants officially ended with the Edict of Versailles, signed by Louis XVI in 1787. Two years later, with the Revolutionary Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789, P ...