In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
HARRIS
Harris, Benjamin Harris
(noun) publisher of the first newspaper printed in America (1673-1713)
Harris, Bomber Harris, Sir Arthur Travers Harris
(noun) British marshal of the Royal Air Force; during World War II he directed mass bombing raids against German cities that resulted in heavy civilian casualties (1892-1984)
Harris, Frank Harris, James Thomas Harris
(noun) Irish writer noted for his sexually explicit but unreliable autobiography (1856-1931)
Harris, Townsend Harris
(noun) United States diplomat who was instrumental in opening Japan to foreign trade (1804-1878)
Harris, Zellig Harris, Zellig Sabbatai Harris
(noun) United States linguist (born in Ukraine) who developed mathematical linguistics and interpreted speech and writing in a social context (1909-1992)
Harris, Joel Harris, Joel Chandler Harris
(noun) United States author who wrote the stories about Uncle Remus (1848-1908)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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INTUITIVELY
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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