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.
EMMA
Etymology
Noun
emma (plural emmas)
(British, dated, WWI, signalese) M in RAF phonetic alphabet
Etymology
Proper noun
Emma
A female given name from Germanic languages.
Usage notes
• Used in England since the Norman Conquest, fashionable in the 19th century, and again in the U.K. from the 1970s to the 1990s, and in the U.S.A. in the 1990s and the 2000s.
Source: Wiktionary
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