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.
FRINGEPOD
fringepod, lacepod
(noun) annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles
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FELLOW
(noun) a member of a learned society; “he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association”
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