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.
LIPIZZAN
Lippizan, Lipizzan, Lippizaner
(noun) a compact and sturdy saddle horse that is bred and trained in Vienna; smart and docile and excellent for dressage; “a Lippizan is black or brown when born but turns white by the time it is five years old”
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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