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.
PINKERTON
Proper noun
Pinkerton (plural Pinkertons)
A Scottish and Northern Irish habitational surname for someone from a place of that name near Dunbar.
Noun
Pinkerton (plural Pinkertons)
(dated, countable) An operative employed by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency founded by Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884).
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(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
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