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Bloody Mary was Mary Tudor, Queen of England, and daughter of King Henry the 8th and Catherine of Aragon. All her life, she was a mean brat to her little sister, Elizabeth and her brother Edward VI. She did not like them at all and was very jealous. When Edward VI died, she became Queen Mary of England. She was hated all over for changing the religion in England from Protestant to Roman Catholic. She mass-murdered over 100 Protestant leaders, earning her name as "Bloody Mary".
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Chicago's tie to the Bloody Mary is a strong one; most versions of the drink's history peg its birthplace as Chicago's sadly defunct Bucket of Blood Club. Or rather, the Bucket of Blood was what inspired barman Fernand Petiot to invent the drink years later in Paris. Obviously, this all seems like solid historical fact and not apocryphal in the slightest.
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Claire Winger and her daughters Hadley (who plays and fears the Bloody Mary game) and Nora have taken a fall as a family and are trying to put themselves back together. This is symbolized by Claire's epileptic seizure in the first chapter during her botched attempts to pry up the house carpet in an attempt to remake the house. The stripping away of the carpet foreshadows the revelations of the family's insecurities and Claire's not-so-solid marriage to her husband Leo. Hadley lies about drinking Diet Coke for breakfast, never reads, conceals her romantic awakenings, and makes bad grades in school, while perfect Nora can be the unbearable opposite end of the spectrum. Meanwhile, Claire feels her grip on motherhood and normalcy slipping after Leo fails to protect her during an attempted holdup. Her attempted suicide continues the novel's dark metaphor of blood and propels her into a new existence.
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The origin of the Bloody Mary is somewhat disputed. One claim states that it was originally created by George Jessel around 1939. Lucius Beebe, in his gossip column "This New York" (New York Herald Tribune, December 2, 1939, page 9), printed what is believed to be the first reference to this drink, along with the original recipe: "George Jessel’s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town’s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka."
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Bloody Mary was invented in the 1920s by an American bartender, Fernand Petiot at Harry's New York Bar in Paris. The original recipe called for equal parts of vodka and tomato juice In 1934, Petiot added black and cayenne pepper, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce and lemon juice to spice up the drink for New Yorkers when he moved back to the States and worked at the King Cole Bar, St. Regis. Petiot notes, "one of the boys suggested we call the drink Bloody Mary because it reminded him of the Bucket of Bloody Club in Chicago, and a girl there named Mary."
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The nickname of Bloody Mary was given to Queen Mary Tudor due to the number of Protestant Tudors who were executed during her reign. How many Protestant men were executed? Why did the English people hate Queen Mary? Why was her name so badly blackened following her death? This section provides the answers to these questions.
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