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.
OPHITIC
Etymology
Adjective
ophitic (comparative more ophitic, superlative most ophitic)
(geology) Describing any rock having crystals of feldspar interspersed with plates of augite.
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THOUGHTLESS
(adjective) without care or thought for others; “the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; ‘Let them eat cake’”
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