American lawyer, politician, racist, and the second-worst Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1777-1864). Taney was born in Calvert County, Maryland to a wealthy family of slavers running a tobacco plantation. His older brother was going to inherit the family plantation, and his father encouraged him to study law. He was sent to Dickinson College at the age of 15; after graduating in 1796, he studied law under Judge Jeremiah Townley Chase in Annapolis and was admitted to the Maryland bar in 1799. 

Taney established a legal practice in Frederick, Maryland, and ran for the Maryland House of Delegates as a Federalist. He won the seat, but lost when he ran for re-election. He stuck with the Federalist Party but broke with them because he supported the War of 1812. He was elected to a five-year term in the Maryland State Senate in 1816 and moved to Baltimore in 1823. In 1826, he and Daniel Webster

There is no "stovetop espresso", there is only good, strong Moka pot coffee.

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Any coffee aficionado will tell you that espresso is its very own thing. True espresso (N.B. not 'expresso") is made by a machine that uses pressures of around 8 atmospheres to force very hot water through a dense cake ("puck") of finely-ground coffee. It needs a particular build of machine to make it, and nothing else comes

YouTube Shorts are a format on YouTube, showing short content. Originally under one minute in length, the current time limit of a short is 3 minutes. These numbers are liable to change and might not be current at the time of reading. Shorts are also shown in a "portrait" orientation, with about twice as much height as width.

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