Bloody Mary History

Restaurant Review | AP Crafters Kitchen & Bar

AP CRAFTERS KITCHEN & BAR

Address: 1321 Herr Lane, Suite 130
Telephone: 502-690-5000
Web: www.apcrafters.com
Cuisine: Gastropub.
Alcohol: Full bar, specialty cocktails; a few dozen wines (a handful of options under $30; many in the $40-and-up range; a dozen by-the-glass); 20 or so beers on tap, including craft and local brews.
Vegetarian: Salads; a couple of portobello-based sandwiches. Ask your server.
Price range: Inexpensive; sandwiches and burgers with sides are under $10; entrees are in $11-$12 range. Exclusive of alcohol, two persons could dine for under $30.
Reservations: Call-ahead seating and reservations for parties of eight or more.
Credit cards: AE, D, MC, V.
Children's menu: Ask your server.
Smoking: No.
Access: The restaurant appears to be fully accessible for people using wheelchairs.
Hours: The kitchen is open seven days a week 11 a.m.-11 p.m. The bar is open until 1 a.m.

The beer list includes some mass-market offerings, as well as such draft choices as Lefthand Sawtooth, Ommegang Hennepin Saison and Schlafly Oatmeal Stout. The bar makes a Bloody Mary garnished with a green olive, a pearl onion and a cherry tomato; it's spicy enough to leave your lips tingling for hours. And though the wine list tilts to the expensive side, nobody will fault the variety and depth of the selection. The menu is a nice blend of the conventional, the comfortable, and the slightly exotic. So there are chicken wings — but they're rubbed with smoked paprika and served with pimento cheese ranch dressing ($8). There are big orders of regular fries ($3.50) or sweet potato fries ($4.50). But if you're looking for something a bit different, there's also poutine, at AP Crafters a massive tray of fries is drizzled with a nicely beefy gravy and dotted with soft, melted cubes of cheddar cheese curds ($7).

History of Copyright, part 2: Bloody Mary - Falkvinge on Infopolicy

History of Copyright, part 2: Bloody Mary

On May 23, Mary was formally declared a bastard by the archbishop. Her mother, Catherine, who was a catholic and the Pope’s protegé, had been thrown out of the family by her father Henry, who had turned protestant just to get rid of Catherine. This was an injustice Mary would attempt to correct all her life.

The King Henry VIII wanted a son to inherit the Throne of England for the Tudor dynasty, but his marriage was a disappointment. His wife, Catherine of Aragon, had only born him a daughter, Mary. Worse still, the Pope would not let him divorce Catherine in the hope of finding someone else to bear him a son.

Henry’s solution was quite drastic, effective and novel. He converted all of England into Protestantism, founding the Church of England, in order to deny the Pope any influence over his marriage. Henry then had his marriage with Catherine of Aragon declared void on May 23, 1533, after which he went on to marry several other women in sequence. He had a second daughter with his second wife, and finally a son with his third wife. Unlike the bastard child Mary, her younger half-siblings — Elizabeth and Edward — were protestants.

Edward succeeded Henry VIII on the throne in 1547, at the age of nine. He died before reaching adult age. Mary was next in the line of succession, despite having been declared a bastard. Thus, the outcast ascended to the Throne of England with a vengeance as Mary I in 1553.

She had not spoken to her father for years and years. Rather, hers was the mission to undo her father’s wrongdoings to the Faith, to England, and to her mother, and to turn England back into Catholicism. She persecuted protestants relentlessly, publicly executing several hundred, earning her the nickname Bloody Mary was dangerous to her ambitions to restore Catholicism, in particular their ability to distribute heretic material. (Political material, in this day and age, was not distinguishable from religious material.) Seeing how France had failed miserably in banning the printing press, even under threat of hanging, she realized another solution was needed. One that involved the printing industry in a way that would benefit them as well.

She devised a monopoly where the London printing guild would get a complete monopoly on all printing in England, in exchange for her censors determining what was fit to print beforehand. It was a very lucrative monopoly for the guild, who would be working hard to maintain the monopoly and the favor of the Queen’s censors. This merger of corporate and governmental powers turned out to be effective in suppressing free speech and political-religious dissent.