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.
HEARTACHE
grief, heartache, heartbreak, brokenheartedness
(noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
heartache (countable and uncountable, plural heartaches)
Very sincere and difficult emotional problems or stress
Source: Wiktionary
Heart"ache`, n. Etym: [Cf. AS. heortece.]
Definition: Sorrow; anguish of mind; mental pang. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COMMUNICATIONS
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
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