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.
PEIRCE
Peirce, Charles Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce
(noun) United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914)
Peirce, Benjamin Peirce
(noun) United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880)
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