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.
FACULA
facula, solar facula
(noun) a large bright spot on the sun’s photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots
facula
(noun) a bright spot on a planet
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
facula (plural faculae)
(astronomy) A bright spot or patch between sunspots
Anagrams
• faucal
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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