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A table setting of a meal typical for working-class people in 18th and 19th-century Annapolis is displayed at Hogshead Trades Museum. A wooden table has two place settings along with plates of flat breads, small pies, large ceramic mugs and a cast iron pot situated underneath a window. Metal carafes and a green glass vase sit on the window sill.

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All Things Considered

Food defined social hierarchy in 1776. Here’s what was on the table

Around the time the United States was founded, Americans' diets included Parmesan ice cream and terrapin. But what you ate depended on your social status.

A person searches for victims on June 27 amid debris of a collapsed building after powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela, in Los Corales, Venezuela.

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The Americas

Venezuela's deadly quakes put its U.S.-backed government to the test

by John Otis

4 min

Venezuelan quakes test government

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Headlands Brewing launched its World Cup-themed beer Common Ground ahead of the first World Cup game earlier in June.

Headlands Brewing launched its World Cup-themed beer Common Ground, ahead of the first World Cup game in June. Justin Gellerson for NPR hide caption

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Soccer Edition

3 World Cup rivals find 'Common Ground' in a cross-border beer

by Chloe Veltman

3 min

3 World Cup rivals find 'Common Ground' in a cross-border beer

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A table setting of a meal typical for working-class people in 18th and 19th-century Annapolis is displayed at Hogshead Trades Museum. A wooden table has two place settings along with plates of flat breads, small pies, large ceramic mugs and a cast iron pot situated underneath a window. Metal carafes and a green glass vase sit on the window sill.

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History

Food defined social hierarchy in 1776. Here's what was on the table

by Ava Berger

4 min

America 250 Food

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Law

Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to much of federal government's regulatory structure

by Nina Totenberg

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Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to much of federal government’s regulatory structure

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