JACOBS

Jacobs, Aletta Jacobs

(noun) Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929)

Jacobs, Jane Jacobs

(noun) United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916)

Jacobs, W. W. Jacobs, William Wymark Jacobs

(noun) English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943)

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

4 April 2025

GUILLOTINE

(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”


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Coffee Trivia

The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.

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