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.
MAZZINI
Mazzini, Giuseppe Mazzini
(noun) Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872)
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COWBERRY
(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
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