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.
KIERKEGAARD
Kierkegaard, Soren Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
(noun) Danish philosopher who is generally considered. along with Nietzsche, to be a founder of existentialism (1813-1855)
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RAREFACTION
(noun) a decrease in the density of something; “a sound wave causes periodic rarefactions in its medium”
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