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Fun fact: BEER IS ACTUALLY CONSIDERED A FOOD IN BAVARIA
The 500-year-old Beer Purity Law still in effect today in Germany. It was decreed on April 23, 1516, by Munich’s Duke Wilhelm, protecting the country’s beer drinkers from contaminants, chemicals and any other additives that unsavory merchants might have thought of adding. It is still in effect today and dictates how beer is officially made in Bavaria.
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1869 - Not long ago a merchant in Munich bought from a peasant a wagon load of hay, paying for it by weight.
When the wagon was about to be unloaded the head of the seller's son appeared on top. The buyer cried out that he had bought the young scamp too, and ...Read MORE...- 1869 - A statue of Goethe was recently uncovered at Munich. The statue was presented to the representatives of the city in the name of the King of Bavaria.
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October 16, 1869 - 1871 - Count Chorinsky, who poisoned his wife some time back in Munich, for which he was imprisoned in the fortress of Rosenberg, has gone mad, and has to be kept in a strait-jacket.
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January 2, 1869 - 1871 - The King of Bavaria came near drowning last December.
He was skating in the neighborhood of Munich, when the ice broke and he fell in. A private soldier who was near saved the King's life with great...Read MORE... - 1887 - According to Drexler, of 55,832 cattle slaughtered at Munich in 1875, 704, or 1.25 per cent, were affected with tuberculosis in a very evident manner...
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April 2, 1887 
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Postcard- 1895 - March 3 – In Munich, bicyclists have to pass a test and display license plates.
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March 3, 1895 - 1895 - Munich
"Munich, mu'nik (Ger. München, mün'kon; Sp. Mona chio, mo-nā'che-0; It. Munica, moo-nee'kā; L. Mona'chium), the capital city of Bavaria and of the...Read MORE... - 1906
Munich, mu'nik (Ger. Munchen, mun'Ken ; L. Mona'- chium), the capital of Bavaria and of tbe district of Upper Bavaria, on the Isar, 35 miles SE. of...Read MORE... 
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1869 - A statue of Goethe was recently uncovered at Munich. The statue was presented to the representatives of the city in the name of the King of Bavaria.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
October 16, 1869
1869 - Not long ago a merchant in Munich bought from a peasant a wagon load of hay, paying for it by weight.
When the wagon was about to be unloaded the head of the seller's son appeared on top. The buyer cried out that he had bought the young scamp too, and ... Read MORE...
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1871 - Count Chorinsky, who poisoned his wife some time back in Munich, for which he was imprisoned in the fortress of Rosenberg, has gone mad, and has to be kept in a strait-jacket.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
January 2, 1869
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1871 - The King of Bavaria came near drowning last December.
He was skating in the neighborhood of Munich, when the ice broke and he fell in. A private soldier who was near saved the King's life with great... Read MORE...
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1887 - According to Drexler, of 55,832 cattle slaughtered at Munich in 1875, 704, or 1.25 per cent, were affected with tuberculosis in a very evident manner...
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
April 2, 1887
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1895 - Munich
"Munich, mu'nik (Ger. München, mün'kon; Sp. Mona chio, mo-nā'che-0; It. Munica, moo-nee'kā; L. Mona'chium), the capital city of Bavaria and of the... Read MORE...
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1895 - March 3 – In Munich, bicyclists have to pass a test and display license plates.
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March 3, 1895
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Munich, mu'nik (Ger. Munchen, mun'Ken ; L. Mona'- chium), the capital of Bavaria and of tbe district of Upper Bavaria, on the Isar, 35 miles SE. of... Read MORE...
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