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Fine Wines and Their History – A Gentleman’s Tipple

Wine has been produced for millennia, and for millennia people have enjoyed its taste all over the world. Even Noah supposedly planted vines and cultivated the crop of his vineyard. But vines are made of sturdy stuff and not even a flood could prevent those vines from washing away.
Ancient tales from Persia, modern-day Iran, relate to a women in the King’s court who tried to poison herself by eating grapes that had spoiled while sat in a jar. She got drunk, and found that she had lost some of the worries she had, got the King’s attention, and began the production of spoiled grapes. While the story’s truth is up for the debate, it shouldn’t be doubted that wine was discovered by accident, unlike beer was an invention of humans.
In Egypt wine was frequently used in the ceremonial life of ancient citizens. Wine drinking likely began around 4000 BC, making it a product that’s 6,000 years in the making, though some suspect is could date back significantly further and could in fact be a product that’s 8,000 years old. You’ll never look at the supposed old or vintage bottle of wine in quite the same way. But you likely wouldn’t have wanted to drink the wine, the Roman and Mediterranean producers of wine would have floated olive oil on top of the wine in order to keep it from spoiling.
As you may discover from neck tags on bottles of Greek wine, it was Grecians though who revolutionized the product of wine—many Ancient Greek myths make references and have gods delivering wine, even wines with specific names. This indicates wine’s importance, and helped it eventually spread to the Roman Empire while it was cultivated as far north as Scotland, and it was the Roman who invented the wine presses to speed up production.

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Wage Disparities in the Medical Profession

It’s a common misconception that all medical workers are rich. Indeed, surgeons are amongst the highest earners in most countries (and in the US their salaries are generally over $200k), but when you consider the massive debts and insurance payments these workers face straight after finishing medical school – not to mention being tied in to study for multiple years with no time to earn on the side – it’s clear that most workers are broke for the majority of their early career.

And that’s just the top end of the scale. Registered nurses (who, more often than not, are the hardest workers in the hospital) can expect to hit a glass ceiling around $65k despite it being a highly-skilled job. This is little reward for long and usually anti-social hours for what amounts to a payscale similar to what you can find in US car support and similar fields of industry.

And then there’s location. According to the Labor Bureau statistics office, there’s a big difference between working in Vermont and Rhode Island. The former has average wages up to 20% lower than the national average for certain medical jobs, while the converse is true for the latter. So for medical workers, it really does pay to give up your life in your home state, up sticks and move yourself and family across the country in search of that ever greener dollar – especially since 20% of $200k can make such a massive difference when you’ve got seven years of medical school to pay off.

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