In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
GRIFFITH
Griffith, D. W. Griffith, David Lewelyn Wark Griffith
(noun) United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948)
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SHTIK
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
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