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Today's Feature:  The Muses, from "Light on Crete" by Fernand CROMBETTE

The nineteenth king of the first dynasty had, in his hieroglyphic name, a grain of germinated barley, which is said: Belbine Eiô t Thèni. In their Greek form, these words translate as: "To add in the barley which one knows how to ferment with honey giving beer, the alcoholic beverage". The invention of Cretan beer would thus date from the reign of our king, which is from 1813 to 1797. It is mor...