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.
BOOKMARK
bookmark, bookmarker
(noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader’s place
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
bookmark (plural bookmarks)
A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
(computing) A record of the address of a file or Internet page serving as a shortcut to it.
Synonym: favourites
(databases) A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap
Verb
bookmark (third-person singular simple present bookmarks, present participle bookmarking, simple past and past participle bookmarked)
(computing, transitive) To create a bookmark.
Source: Wiktionary
Book"mark`, n.
Definition: Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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