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.
BAKUNIN
Bakunin, Mikhail Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
(noun) Russian anarchist; ally and later opponent of Karl Marx (1814-1876)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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