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.
CLAUSEWITZ
Clausewitz, Karl von Clausewitz
(noun) Prussian general and military theorist who proposed a doctrine of total war and war as an extension of diplomacy (1780-1831)
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TRUNCATION
(noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
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