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.
PLINY
Pliny, Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus
(noun) Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)
Pliny, Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
(noun) Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113)
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(noun) the two innermost layers of the meninges; cerebrospinal fluid circulates between these innermost layers
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