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.
BROOKITE
Etymology
Noun
brookite (countable and uncountable, plural brookites)
(mineral) A dark brown mineral form of titanium dioxide, with the chemical formula TiO2.
Source: Wiktionary
Brook"ite, n. Etym: [Named from the English mineralogist, H.J.Brooke.] (Min.)
Definition: A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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