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.
NORMANDIE
Normandie, Normandy
(noun) a former province of northwestern France on the English channel; divided into Haute-Normandie and Basse-Normandie
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(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
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