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NOVEMBER 24 - History of food and drink
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National Espresso Day
1762 The first written record of the word 'sandwich'. Edward Gibbons Journal, 11/24/1762: 'I dined at the Cocoa Tree....That respectable body affords every evening a sight truly English. Twenty or thirty of the first men in the kingdom....supping at little tables....upon a bit of cold meat, or a Sandwich.'
1859 'The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection' was published in England.
1864 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born. French artist who documented Parisian night life in the 1890s with his insightful posters.
1873 Patent issued to Joseph F. Glidden for barbed wire. The beginning of the end of cowboys and the open range.
1916 Sir Hiram Maxim died. An American born inventor. Among his hundreds of inventions were a hair curling iron, a mousetrap, an automatic sprinkling system, gas motors, and a machine gun.
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