In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
ODINISM
O"din*ism, n.
Definition: Worship of Odin; broadly, the Teutonic heathenism. -- O"din*ist, n.
Odinism was valor; Christianism was humility, a nobler kind of valor. Carlyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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