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.
BROOKITES
Noun
brookites
plural of brookite
Source: Wiktionary
BROOKITE
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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