Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
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Ecuador, Republic of Ecuador
(noun) a republic in northwestern South America; became independent from Spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated by the Andes
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