Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
AEROPLANKTON
Etymology
Noun
aeroplankton (plural aeroplankton)
The tiny lifeforms that float and drift in the air, carried by the current of the wind.
Aeroplankton are the atmospheric equivalent of oceanic plankton.
Source: Wiktionary
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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