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Can Liter Bottles Measure Up?
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The 750-milliliter bottle of wine is said to have become the
standard hundreds of years ago because it was the size a healthy
glass blower could produce with a single lungful of air. Then,
according to "The Great Big Book of Everything" (a.k.a. the Oxford
Companion to Wine, edited by British wine goddess Jancis Robinson),
it was rationalized as the appropriate serving for one man per meal,
then one man per day, then . . . well, nowadays maybe the ration for
a couple over a special-occasion dinner.
Standards change. And maybe it is time to reassess the 750-ml
bottle. You've probably poured ...
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Albion Tourgee: remembering Plessy's lawyer on the 100th anniversary of Plessy v. Ferguson.
Magazine article from: Constitutional Commentary
; Albion Winegar Tourgee(1) (May 2, 1838-May 21, 1905...identity of contemporary lawyers. Indeed, Tourgee's sense of history and of his place...Tourgee, a farmer, and Louisa Emma (Winegar) Tourgee, who died when he was five...
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Brooks Thomas, ed. Plessy v. Ferguson: A Brief History with Documents. (Boston: Bedford Books, 1997). 205 pp, $19.95 paper
Magazine article from: Ethnic Studies Review
; ...railway carriages for whites and colored passengers, and how white novelist and lawyer (Plessy's attorney) Albion Winegar Tourgee became involved. Thomas provides a brief biography of each member of the Court and significantly, how the...
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We as Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History
; ...drawings, the book suffers from editorial sloppiness in some places. The photograph on page 55 purportedly of Albion Winegar Tourgee, Plessy's lead counselor, is in fact a photograph of Eben Tourjee (who had no connection to the case...
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We as Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History
; ...drawings, the book suffers from editorial sloppiness in some places. The photograph on page 55 purportedly of Albion Winegar Tourgee, Plessy's lead counselor, is in fact a photograph of Eben Tourjee (who had no connection to the case...
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