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.
DOUGLASS
Douglass, Frederick Douglass
(noun) United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
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