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Death in the Afternoon, also called the Hemingway or the Hemingway Champagne, [1] [2] is a cocktail made up of absinthe and Champagne, invented by Ernest Hemingway.The cocktail shares a name with Hemingway's 1932 book Death in the Afternoon, and the recipe was published in So Red the Nose, or Breath in the Afternoon, a 1935 cocktail book with contributions from famous authors.
Cadaveric spasm, also known as postmortem spasm, instantaneous rigor mortis, cataleptic rigidity, or instantaneous rigidity, is a rare form of muscular stiffening that occurs at the moment of death and persists into the period of rigor mortis. [1]
The use of the words "corpse reviver" to describe a mixed drink appears in literature as early as an issue of Punch in 1861. [4] A recipe appeared in the Gentleman's Table Guide in 1871 that called for 1/2 a wine glass of brandy, 1/2 a wine glass of Maraschino, and two dashes of Boker's bitters. [5]
Two-year-old Mia Atkins died after she choked on a cocktail sausage last year. Her family has argued that a series of errors reduced her chances of survival. Coroner rules that toddler's death ...
A Death Flip is a drink made from Tequila, Chartreuse, and Jägermeister and a whole egg. It was created in 2010 by Chris Hysted-Adams in Fitzroy, ...
Bourbon Street has long been party central, and little changed in the hours after Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Friday outlined the direct link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk.
The drug cocktail may also contain caffeine, according to the National Capital Poison Center (NCPC). Despite its name, the recreational drug may not contain cocaine at all and gets its color from ...
Brompton cocktail, sometimes called Brompton mixture or Brompton's cocktail, was an elixir meant for use as a pain suppressant dosed for prophylaxis.Made from morphine or diacetylmorphine (heroin), cocaine, highly pure ethyl alcohol (some recipes specify gin), and sometimes with chlorpromazine (Thorazine) to counteract nausea, it was given to terminally ill individuals (especially cancer ...