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Art Institute hosts exhibit dedicated to Renaissance; Sculptures, paintings: This is the first time many of the works have left Italy
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CHICAGO (AP) - More than four centuries ago, a melancholy young
nobleman from the Medici family, Francesco I, second Grand Duke of
Tuscany, had a secret chamber built at one of his palaces in
Florence. He filled it with exquisite art works, jewels, natural
curios, and scientific specimens.
Francesco spent days at a time hiding from the world in what he
called his "studiolo." Other rulers of the day who had similar vaults
called them simply "wonder cabinets."
The curators of the new special exhibition which opened Saturday
at the Art Institute of Chicago, "The Medici, Michelangelo and the
Art ...
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`Prohibition worked'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...look at what really happened during Prohibition. They found that, nationwide, there...nearly two-thirds. Some conclude that Prohibition, far from being the total disaster...night That Chicago's still there. - Prohibition-era verse You're a Chicagoan, you...
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Prohibition politics
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; ...standard, schoolbook history of alcohol prohibition in the United States goes like this...Worse, it also became clear that Prohibition fueled mobsters who grew rich supplying...booze. So, recognizing the futility of Prohibition, Americans repealed it in 1934. This...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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PROHIBITION HAD ITS PLUSES, SCHOLARS SAY.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...years of this century, the result was Prohibition. Most people regard it as a flop...drinking became more widespread during the Prohibition era, historians now agree that the...ratified by the states by January 1919. Prohibition took effect a year later. The 18th...
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Introducing Prohibition Distillery: New York Spirits Company Captures the Spirit of the Roaring Twenties.
PR Newswire
; ...Today, on the same date that Prohibition began in 1920 under the 18th Amendment, a new spirits company opens its doors. Prohibition Distillery recalls this era of youthful...constraints and reveled in disobedience. Prohibition Distillery will be launching a portfolio...
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An economic analysis of alcohol prohibition
Magazine article from: Journal of Drug Issues
; ...consequences of prohibition. If this...to current prohibitions of abused...many other prohibitions. Further...demise of prohibition are reasonably...most other prohibitions, alcohol prohibition was repealed...
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The economics of drug prohibition and drug legalization.
Magazine article from: Social Research
; ...Violation of these prohibitions is punishable by lengthy...to enforcing these prohibition regimes. The presumed...for analyzing drug prohibition is the observation...and demanded despite prohibition. This point might...abundant evidence from prohibitions of drugs, alcohol...
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Forbidden Fruit: When Prohibition Increases the Harm It Is Supposed to Reduce.
Magazine article from: Independent Review
; ...Ostensible motives for the prohibitions have included helping...would they impose such prohibitions? Let us examine the...benign. Such flat prohibition often leads to an...continuously until the prohibitions were repealed between...during the period of prohibition and continued to ...
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The Economics of Prohibition.
Magazine article from: Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business
; ...alcohol have sought prohibition and at other times...the establishment of prohibitions. Again historical...indicates that even though prohibition has had limited success...potency from alcohol prohibition years--1921 to...and corruption from prohibitions during 1910-1919...
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The secret of worldwide drug prohibition: the varieties and uses of drug prohibition.
Magazine article from: Independent Review
; ...of countries in the world have drug prohibition? Is it 100 percent, 75 percent, 50...every country in the world has drug prohibition. Surprising as it seems, almost nobody...about the existence of worldwide drug prohibition. In the last decade of the twentieth...
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Constitutional blemishes: American alcohol prohibition and repeal as policy punctuation.(Report)
Magazine article from: Policy Studies Journal
; ...The American experience with alcohol prohibition in the early twentieth century has always...temperance wave that ultimately saw prohibition adopted in 10 countries, with others...historians developed to explain the advent of prohibition have a notorious inability to explain...
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