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.
FRIEDAN
Friedan, Betty Friedan, Betty Naomi Friedan, Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan
(noun) United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921)
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