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.
AUTOSTRADA
autostrada
(noun) an expressway in an Italian-speaking country
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
autostrada (plural autostradas)
A motorway in Italy (and some other countries)
Source: Wiktionary
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COMMUNICATIONS
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
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