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.
HUXLEY
Huxley, Thomas Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley
(noun) English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin’s theory of evolution (1825-1895)
Huxley, Aldous Huxley, Aldous Leonard Huxley
(noun) English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963)
Huxley, Andrew Huxley, Andrew Fielding Huxley
(noun) English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
19 June 2025
ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
Coffee Trivia
