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
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