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.
CYNOSCEPHALAE
Cynoscephalae, battle of Cynoscephalae
(noun) the battle that ended the second Macedonian War (197 BC); the Romans defeated Philip V who lost his control of Greece
Cynoscephalae
(noun) the fields in Thessaly where in 197 BC the Romans defeated the Macedonians
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
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