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.
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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