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  2. Rum-running - Wikipedia

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    Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law. The term rum-running is more commonly applied to smuggling over water; bootlegging is applied to smuggling over land. Smuggling usually takes place to circumvent taxation or prohibition laws within a particular ...

  3. Vietnamese language - Wikipedia

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    Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language.Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [5]

  4. Vietnamese Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Launched. November 2002; 21 years ago (2002-11) The Vietnamese Wikipedia (Vietnamese: Wikipedia tiếng Việt) is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Like the rest of Wikipedia, its content is created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.

  5. Rum-running in Windsor, Ontario - Wikipedia

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    Rum-running in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, was a major activity in the early part of the 20th century. In 1916, the State of Michigan, in the United States, banned the sale of alcohol, three years before prohibition became the national law in 1919. From that point forward, the City of Windsor, Ontario was a major site for alcohol smuggling and ...

  6. Rum Patrol - Wikipedia

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    The Rum Patrol was an operation of the United States Coast Guard to interdict liquor smuggling vessels, known as "rum runners" in order to enforce prohibition in American waters. On 18 December 1917, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution was submitted to the states by Congress. On 16 January 1919, the amendment was ratified and the Liquor ...

  7. Rum - Wikipedia

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    Rum display in a liquor store (United States, 2009) Government House rum, manufactured by the Virgin Islands Company distillery in Saint Croix, circa 1941. Rum is a liquor made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. The distillate, a clear liquid, is often aged in barrels of oak.

  8. List of Vietnamese records in athletics - Wikipedia

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    Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 20000 m walk (track) 1:36:09+ Nguyễn Thành Ngưng: 17 September 2019 Vietnamese Championships Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 20 km walk (road) 1:23:29 Nguyễn Thành Ngưng: 20 March 2016 Asian Race Walking Championships: Nomi, Japan [24] 50 km walk (road) 4×100 m relay: 39.87 Vietnam Nguyễn Đình Vũ Trịnh Việt

  9. Rum Runners - Wikipedia

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    Budget. $1 million [ 1] Box office. 1,279,586 admissions (France) [ 2] Rum Runners (French: Boulevard du Rhum) is a 1971 French-Italian-Spanish adventure film directed by Robert Enrico and produced by Alain Poiré. It is based on Jacques Pecheral's novel of the same name. It stars Brigitte Bardot and Lino Ventura and was released in France on ...