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.
EDISON
Edison, Thomas Edison, Thomas Alva Edison
(noun) United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)
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(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
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