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.
PINTER
Pinter, Harold Pinter
(noun) English dramatist whose plays are characterized by silences and the use of inaction (born in 1930)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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GUILLOTINE
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
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