Meanwhile: #VenezuelaElection
Metrics show a disruption to all language editions of the #Wikipedia online encyclopedia on multiple internet providers in Venezuela; the incident comes in the run up to elections on Sunday, matching a similar pattern observed in 2019 #EleccionesVE2024
The "fake" Christians ain't happy
A belief system should not be too fragile and brittle from scrutiny or mockery
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The bottles are now common auction items but they do not command high prices, in many instances failing to reach the original asking price.
The brand was later revived by Euan Shand as a blended Scotch, though the modern incarnation features zero salvaged whisky.
So if you see one, like in this PIC, it is NOT an original whisky, so to speak, its a "mix" of whiskeys and it sure ain't one from the actual ship wreck.
The authorities, however, did not share this view, not least because the whisky was destined for the United States – and so no duty had been paid on it.
There followed a second, attempted, land-borne salvage operation, with the police raiding villages and crofts in an effort to recover the liquid cargo – and the locals secreting their ill-gotten gains wherever they could. Or else they just drank them.
This blended whisky represents one of the greatest stories in scotch whisky.
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