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.
GLINKA
Glinka, Mikhail Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
(noun) Russian composer (1804-1857)
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ATROPHIED
(adjective) (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use; “partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm”
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