On on Jan. 17, 1920, the 18th Amendment of the US Constitution came into force, ushering in Prohibition in America. A century later, the country has yet to fully turn the page on that raucous chapter in its history. Back in the day, two large owls adorned the bar of the luxurious Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore. That resulted in a patchwork of laws that sometimes varied from county to county, parish to parish and even from town to town. That is even the case in Moore County, Tennessee, home to the distillery of world famous whiskey producers Jack Daniels.

Source: Taipei Times January 17, 2020 15:56 UTC