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.
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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