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.
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM
Grammatophyllum, genus Grammatophyllum
(noun) small genus of large epiphytic or terrestrial orchids of southeastern Asia to Polynesia; the giants of the Orchidaceae having long narrow leaves and drooping flower clusters often 6 feet long
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FUNERAL
(noun) a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated; “hundreds of people attended his funeral”
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