Omdurman, battle of Omdurman
(noun) a battle (1898) in which an English and Egyptian army under Kitchener defeated the Sudanese
Omdurman
(noun) a city of Sudan; located in the central Sudan on the White Nile opposite Khartoum
Source: WordNet® 3.1
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
