The time has come, 68 teams have gathered for a 19-day single-elimination tournament, and America is riveted. Your odds of correctly guessing every single bracket outcome? 1:9,200,000,000,000. So, before you plunk down your hard-earned cash, maybe you should learn the real secret to March Madness.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the backstory of St. Patrick’s Day (which celebrates the violent expulsion of serpents from Ireland) is significantly less gory than the backstory of St. Valentine’s Day (which celebrates love), but there’s still plenty of mayhem to interest the modern reader. Who Was St. Patrick?

In the run-up to St. Patrick’s Day, and while the snow sits heavily on the ground (at least here in Colorado), we thought it would be a good time to lift the glass to whiskey. What’s in a Name? The word “whiskey” is derived from the Irish Gaelic “uisce beatha” which translates literally as “water of life.”