In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
HERCYNITE
Etymology
Noun
hercynite (countable and uncountable, plural hercynites)
(mineral) An isometric-hexoctahedral black mineral containing aluminum, iron, and oxygen.
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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