Rum is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from sugarcane byproducts, such as molasses, or directly from sugarcane juice, by a process of fermentation and distillation.he origin of the word rum is generally unclear. In an 1824 essay about the word's origin, Samuel Morewood, a British etymologist, suggested it might be from the British slang term for the best, as in having a rum time.. He wrote:
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Ed Masry, the flamboyant, crusading environmental lawyer portrayed by actor Albert Finney in the movie Erin Brockovich, which was based on Masry's landmark $333-million settlement against Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for groundwater contamination in California's high desert, has died. He was 73.D MASRY The fight by the attorney and assistant Erin Brockovich, left, over Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s contamination of groundwater in Hinkley, Calif., was portrayed in an Oscar-winning movie.