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.
CENTRIPETENCY
Cen*trip"e*ten*cy, n.
Definition: Tendency toward the center.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ELLIPSE
(noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; “the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant”
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