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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

The Arabica variant of coffee is 600,000 years old.

It was the result of through natural crossbreeding of two other coffee species and emerged first in Ethiopia.

They were used for the drink, as far as we can tell, first in the 1400s to 1600s, having been brought to Yemen, which means they were probably brewed for that purpose in reality long before that.

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This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

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