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.
HOPKINS
Hopkins, Anthony Hopkins, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins
(noun) Welsh film actor (born in 1937)
Hopkins, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
(noun) English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins
(noun) English poet (1844-1889)
Hopkins, Johns Hopkins
(noun) United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)
Hopkins, Mark Hopkins
(noun) United States educator and theologian (1802-1887)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
21 June 2025
SUFFOCATION
(noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); “asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture”
Coffee Trivia
