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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Prohibition, Low-Alcohol Beer, Christianity and Alcohol, Network Against Prohibition, Govenlock, Saskatchewan, Whiskey Gap, Alberta, Prohibitionism, the Great Binge, Neo-Prohibitionism, Beer Day, Pressure Politics, Canada Temperance Act, Prohibition in Gujarat, Icelandic Prohibition Referendum, 1933, Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Prohibition, Low-Alcohol Beer, Christianity and Alcohol, Network Against Prohibition, Govenlock, Saskatchewan, Whiskey Gap, Alberta, Prohibitionism, the Great Binge, Neo-Prohibitionism, Beer Day, Pressure Politics, Canada Temperance Act, Prohibition in Gujarat, Icelandic Prohibition Referendum, 1933, Icelandic Prohibition Referendum, 1908. Excerpt: In Iceland, Beer Day (Icelandic: Bjórdagurinn or Bjórdagur ) is celebrated every year on March 1, honoring the elimination of the 74-year prohibition of beer. Prohibition lasted from 1915 to March 1, 1989.Origin Main article: Prohibition in Iceland In a 1908 referendum, Icelanders voted in favor of a ban on all alcoholic drinks, going into effect Jan. 1, 1915. In 1921, the ban was partially lifted after Spain refused to buy Iceland's main export, fish, unless Iceland bought Spanish wines; then lifted further after a national referendum in 1935 came out in favor of legalizing spirits. Strong beer (with an alcohol content of 2.25 % or more ), however, was not included in the 1935 vote in order to please the temperance lobby - which argued that because beer is cheaper than spirits, it would lead to more depravity. As international travel brought Icelanders back in touch with beer, bills to legalize it were regularly moved in parliament, but inevitably were shot down on technical grounds. Prohibition lost more support in 1985, when the Minister of Justice (himself a teetotaler ) prohibited pubs from adding legal spirits to legal non-alcoholic beer (called "pilsner " by Icelanders ) to make a potent imitation of strong beer. Soon after, beer approached legalization in parliamenta full turnout of the upper house of Iceland's Parliament voted 13 to 8 to permit the sales, ending prohibition on the Books, , Prohibition~~Books-Llc, 999999999, Prohibition, Books Llc, 1156574471, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: LIFE JOURNEY, 100 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=6mm, Gew.=159gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert