Wine vessels kept them fresh and free from a vinegar smell. In medieval Europe, the Roman Catholic Church supported wine because the clergy required it for the Mass. Monks in France made wine for years, aging it in caves. An old English recipe that survived in various forms until the 19th century calls for refining white wine from bastard—bad or tainted "bastardo" wine. The English word "wine" comes from the Proto-Germanic "*winam", an early borrowing from the Latin "vinum", "wine" or "(grape) vine", itself derived from the Proto-Indo-European stem *"win-o-" (cf. , "gini"; Ancient Greek: "oinos"; Aeolic Greek: "woinos"; Hittite: "wiyana";
Our Word Is Our Weapon Our Word Is Our Weapon Our Word is Our Weapon () is a collection of writings by Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Marcos has become somewhat of an icon, a poetic representative of a much larger struggle. Much of the book contains political essays, as well as stories and commentary in the style of magical realism, with conversations between Marcos and a beetle named Durito. The book was published by Seven Stories Press in 2002. "Somewhere between the passionate analysis of Ricardo Flores Magón, and the poetic fury of Eduardo Galeano, lie these most powerful and