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  • Thumbnail for Prohibition in the United States
    United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1919. Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth...
    129 KB (14,124 words) - 16:10, 22 May 2024
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    Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether...
    55 KB (6,350 words) - 01:33, 24 May 2024
  • Australia, formerly the Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party, is a single-issue Australian political party. It has a number of policies that centre around...
    16 KB (900 words) - 21:59, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prohibition in Canada
    Prohibition in Canada was a ban on alcoholic beverages that arose in various stages, from local municipal bans in the late 19th century (extending to...
    47 KB (5,402 words) - 03:11, 29 May 2024
  • parliament voted 13 to 8 to permit the sales, ending prohibition in the country. Following the end of prohibition, some Icelanders have celebrated Beer Day on...
    5 KB (564 words) - 11:45, 30 March 2024
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    society came to the fore with the end of Prohibition in December 1933, and the rise of photojournalism to describe the set of people who tended to do their...
    3 KB (336 words) - 07:30, 16 January 2024
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    in the United States when, at the end of prohibition, in order to meet the large demand for wine, some poor strains of muscat grapes (used normally for...
    2 KB (215 words) - 08:25, 20 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Franklin D. Roosevelt
    related to finance, communications, and labor, and presided over the end of Prohibition. In 1936, Roosevelt won a landslide reelection with the economy having...
    169 KB (20,144 words) - 05:19, 26 May 2024
  • at the end of Prohibition, tells of how Vito Corleone consolidated his power to become the most powerful Don in New York City. Also, it tells of Sonny...
    6 KB (506 words) - 12:21, 26 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
    the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. The amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and ratified by the requisite number of states...
    26 KB (3,039 words) - 19:13, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cream ale
    During Prohibition in the United States, a great number of Canadian brewers took up brewing cream ale, refining it to some degree. Following the end of Prohibition...
    5 KB (483 words) - 17:30, 29 May 2024
  • Max Gerlach (category American gangsters of German descent)
    titular character of his novel The Great Gatsby. With the end of prohibition and the onset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, Gerlach lost his...
    13 KB (1,369 words) - 20:52, 20 April 2024
  • Christian Temperance Union. On the other end of the spectrum was the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, who were instrumental in getting...
    23 KB (2,892 words) - 06:25, 9 January 2024
  • Bureau of Prohibition (or Prohibition Unit) was the United States federal law enforcement agency formed to enforce the National Prohibition Act of 1919...
    13 KB (1,453 words) - 07:41, 2 May 2024
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    Eliot Ness (category American people of Norwegian descent)
    American Prohibition agent known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone while enforcing Prohibition in Chicago. He was leader of a team of law enforcement...
    33 KB (3,431 words) - 22:12, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brooklyn (cocktail)
    of Maraschino liqueur. It largely fell into obscurity after the end of Prohibition, but experienced a resurgence in the 1990s. The Brooklyn was originally...
    3 KB (193 words) - 23:08, 29 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Drug prohibition
    The prohibition of drugs through sumptuary legislation or religious law is a common means of attempting to prevent the recreational use of certain intoxicating...
    80 KB (8,957 words) - 00:00, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alcohol laws of Utah
    Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services (UDABS) has regulated the sale of alcoholic beverages since 1935, two years after the end of Prohibition. Utah is...
    26 KB (3,146 words) - 17:15, 11 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for California wine
    Capistrano. Its contemporary wine production grew steadily since the end of Prohibition, but mostly known for its sweet, port-style and jug wine products...
    33 KB (3,285 words) - 03:42, 17 May 2024
  • Morello families begin branching out into new rackets following the end of prohibition. Learning that Salieri is making moves to gain control over law enforcement...
    44 KB (4,277 words) - 04:09, 17 May 2024
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