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.
NEPHELINITE
nephelinite
(noun) an igneous rock consisting of nepheline and pyroxene
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
nephelinite (countable and uncountable, plural nephelinites)
(geology) A dark, finely crystalline rock of volcanic origin, being a mixture of nepheline and pyroxene.
Source: Wiktionary
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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