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.
JACKSONIA
Jacksonia, genus Jacksonia
(noun) genus of yellow-flowered Australian unarmed or spiny shrubs without true leaves but having leaflike stems or branches
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DISPERSION
(noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something; “the dispersion of the troops”; “the diffusion of knowledge”
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