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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (8983)	2/26/2002 2:53:13 AM
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"If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to foreswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack." [sack = former term for Sherry] ~ Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 2. Brief history of Sherry: soc.surrey.ac.uk <Snip> In 1587, an incident occurred which set the seal on the English love of sherry. Sir Francis Drake set alight the Spanish fleet in Cadiz - going down in history as "singeing the King of Spain's beard". He had made off with 2900 butts of sherry and the fame of his exploit helped to introduce large-scale sherry drinking to England. <snip>