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.
CHIMNEYBREAST
Noun
chimneybreast (plural chimneybreasts)
Alternative form of chimney-breast
Source: Wiktionary
Chim"ney-breast`, n. (Arch.)
Definition: The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.
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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