Malvasia Malmsey was one of the three major wines exported from Greece in medieval times. (For other examples, see Rumney wine and Cretan wine). It is alleged that when Edward IV of England convicted his brother, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, of high treason, his private execution consisted of being "drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine," which is dramatized in Shakespeare's "Richard III". Both Monemvasia and Candia have lent their names to modern grape varieties. In Greece, there is a variety known as Monemvasia, evidently named after the port, though now grown primarily in the Cyclades. In western Europe,
Archibald Butt President Taft when he threw out the first ball at the first home game of Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals in 1910 and 1911. Butt died at sea shortly before the season-opening game in 1912 and Taft, according to the "Washington Post", was overcome and "could not be present for obvious reasons." On March 3, 1911, Butt was promoted to the rank of major in the Quartermaster Corps, and later that year he became a member of the Georgia Society of the Cincinnati by right of his descent from his great-grandfather Lieutenant Robert Moseley, a veteran of the American Revolution.