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.
TIL (or T.I.L.) typically is an abbreviation for Today I Learned when used on the web at sites like Reddit.com or Digg.com TIL may also mean Until, later. TIL may also stand for That is Lame.
The tilde (/ËtÉªldÉ/; Ë or ~) is a grapheme with several uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish and from Portuguese, which in turn came from the Latin titulus, meaning title or superscription. The reason for the name was that it was originally written over a letter as a scribal abbreviation, as a mark of suspension, shown as a straight line when used with capitals. Thus the commonly used words Anno Domini were frequently abbreviated to Ao DÃ±i, an elevated ...