All throughout the year, Sardinian villagers work together in cooperatives, tending their vineyards and olive orchards and raising pigs for ham and salami.
Recommended for European travelers and colonists heading to the East in the late 1800s, quinine was initially added to various alcoholic beverages to mask its bitterness.
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Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
23 Dec. 2024
Hot, wet, insect-ridden, and with a climate that made early colonists exceptionally susceptible to disease, the islands became the center of an idea formulated in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century.
In the towns and kibbutzim of the Golan, news of the plan to increase the number of settlers was met with a mixture of skepticism, excitement and shock.
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Elena Becatoros,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Dec. 2024
White settlers, however, viewed the growing Ghost Dance practice as a harbinger of insurrection.
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