Malvasia companies occasionally use the name "Malvasia" or "Malvazia" for non-vintage Madeiras, especially those primarily marketed to Portuguese-speaking countries. English historical tradition associates Malmsey wine with the death of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, brother of King Edward IV of England. Following his conviction for treason, he was "privately executed" at the Tower on 18 February 1478, by tradition in the Bowyer Tower, and soon after the event, the rumour gained ground that he was drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine. Malvasia Malvasia (, also known as Malvazia) is a group of wine grape varieties grown historically in the
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.