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Four shoeshiners for one foot. That's how fierce competition was in Turkey, at a time when tourist feet were not as plentiful as today.

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December 5: The End Of Prohibition

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Prohibition in the United States was implemented as a constitutional law prohibiting the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 until this day in 1933.

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