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.
FLURR
Etymology
Verb
flurr (third-person singular simple present flurrs, present participle flurring, simple past and past participle flurred)
(transitive) To scatter.
(intransitive) To fly up.
Source: Wiktionary
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24 May 2025
EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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