In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
AUTOCEPHALY
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Noun
autocephaly (countable and uncountable, plural autocephalies)
(Christianity) The condition where a church's leaders have severed ties to a larger body and thus no longer report to a higher authority.
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SYCAMORE
(noun) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
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