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.
PINEWOOD
Etymology
Noun
pinewood (countable and uncountable, plural pinewoods)
(uncountable) The wood of a pine
(countable) A forest or grove of pine trees, either natural or as a plantation
Synonyms
• (forest) pinery, pinetum
Etymology
Proper noun
Pinewood
(British) An English film and television studio complex in Buckinghamshire.
Source: Wiktionary
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