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.
CLEISTES
Cleistes, genus Cleistes
(noun) terrestrial orchids of North and South America having slender fibrous roots; allied to genus Pogonia
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