The temperance movement and the Eighteenth Amendment. 1  In the United States an early wave of movements for state and local prohibition arose from the intensive religious revivalism of the 1820s and â30s, which stimulated movements toward perfectionism in human beings, including temperance and abolitionism.
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Tilde. Alternatively referred to as the squiggly or twiddle, the tilde is a character (~) on keyboards below the escape or ESC key and on the same key as the back quote that resembles a squiggly line. The graphic gives an representation of how the tilde may appear.hat a tilde is used for on a computer. 1  In languages such as Spanish and Portuguese, the tilde is a diacritical mark that is placed over a letter such as 'n' Ã± 'and' a Ã£ to help emphasize. 2  The letter shorten long file Names In microsoft windows.  95 above