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.
HORNSTONE
hornfels, hornstone
(noun) a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
hornstone (countable and uncountable, plural hornstones)
hornfels
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Source: Wiktionary
Horn"stone`, n. (Min.)
Definition: A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CONNECTION
(noun) a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it); “there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare”
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