Though the mineral waters didn't ease Jefferson's discomfort, he loved "the land of corn, wine, oil, and sunshine".
In our current study, 90% of the wine drunk by the subjects was corn wine, rice wine or rum, in which the alcohol content is low.
Alcohol consumption was quantified as the number of liangs (about 50 g) of rice wine, corn wine, rum, beer or liquor consumed during the preceding 12 months.
The alcohol information included questions about the number of liangs (about 50 g) of rice wine, corn wine, rum, beer, or liquor consumed during the preceding 12 months.
Because of isolation from the other ethnic groups, the special customs and cultures including their clothing, intra-ethnic marriages, dietary patterns, and corn wine and rum intakes are still completely preserved to the present day.
In July 1929 the foundation stone was laid with Masonic ritual, accompanied by libations of oil, corn and wine.
The final bill, which President Bush is expected to sign soon, includes tax breaks for oil companies, corn farmers, wine distributors and dozens of other highly specific industries.
YAPHANK Suffolk County Farm "Celebrate Grown on Long Island Day," featuring local in-season produce from the farmers' market, children's activities, an educational animal yard, roasted corn, and wine and food tastings.
Deuteronomy speaks at length of the tax due from the people to the Levite priests for the maintenance of the tabernacle, namely "the shoulder and the breast" of any ox or sheep slaughtered, as well as "first-fruits also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and a part of the wool from the shearing of their sheep".
At 2.598 660 Lucretius discusses the religious portrayal of Earth as divine mother, and concludes that if one is going to call sea 'Neptune', corn 'Ceres', wine 'Bacchus', etc.—as he himself indeed often enough does one might reasonably also personify the earth as their mother, hence as 'mother of the gods'.
The course started in Bazas, just enough south of Bordeaux to grow corn instead of wine grapes, and included so many long, straight roads heading south that highway hypnosis set in.
