On June 4, 1411, France’s King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the village of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon. The cheese’s origin more than three centuries earlier was humble indeed, after a shepherd left his noon meal in a cave by accident.
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On June 1, 1843, antislavery activist Isabella Baumfree became a Methodist and ...
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