In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
JOSEPHUS
Josephus, Flavius Josephus, Joseph ben Matthias
(noun) Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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