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History, Distilled

The polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.</Frank Hurley, courtesy Scott Polar Research Institute The polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.

People don’t travel like they used to. The Associated Press reports that five crates of Scotch whisky and two of brandy have been recovered by a team restoring a hut in the Antarctic that was used a century ago by the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.

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